charles, you are on the air with nick clark. fun with yourving phone calls. trying to get through is a nightmare. that you'verl said got some mad weather. i'm wondering why you don't have an independent line anymore. that's the one i should be calling under. i have a couple comments for your guest. i have several family members who are going to vote for trump for one good reason. have goneeir 401(k)s through the roof. they are very happy that he's in office and they will reelect him. i also have at least a six family members that are in the medical field in several different states. one is a director of a big hospital in tallahassee. the covid thing. it wore out. that was what the democrats were counting to carry them through until election day. and it's not. they have no issues in their hospitals. clark'swant to get nick perspective on health and covid-19. is impacting this race in pennsylvania. impacting covid is the race everywhere. might find people like donna who think the issue is not salient or that the pandemic has somehow been handled and we are over

greta: charles, let me leave it there and get nick clark's perspective and doesn't alienate voters, the vice president comments on it? nick: i think so many voters already have their minds made up it is unlikely to have an effect. it doesn't resonate with pennsylvania voters because it fracking is a big part of the pennsylvania economy. it helps create a lot of jobs and fuel, additional revenue into the local economy and state economy. the issue itself does resonate with voters, but i am not convinced it is moving the dialogue and terms of the likely outcome. nick: i think most people have their minds made up. at this point in 2016 there were still about 12% of voters still undecided. genuinely undecided and they tended to break in the president's faber a few days before the election. at this moment and even earlier we are looking at 4% or 5% of voters who are still genuinely undecided. those, they are probably already leaning a particular direction. it is hard to imagine fracking issues affecting more than half of the people. greta: the president and vice president are holding dueling

. >> we are back with nick clark, political science associate professor at susquehanna university. do polls say what right now in this snapshot of time about where the race stands? the very different polls put vice president biden i had between roughly 4% and 6%. franklin and marshall has the new palau this morning that puts him on the upper end of that trajectory. there are single polls that give him more of an advantage. it's looking like biden has an advantage between 4% and 6%. host: what do you make of that advantage? is that enough to get out of the margin of error? >> i believe so. the margin of error is around five points. if the vice president were to come down, that would certainly be enough to do it. that's a

met mark jacobson and by one bashara that's it for me i'm going to leave you in the company of nick clark who will take over our coverage next here on syria the media and social media have affectively become was donald trump's presidency he weaponize the fake news to attack outlets that he perceives as enemies he once again is richard gere's person present media analysis program the listening post. donald trump's inauguration set the tone from that day when he flat out lied about the size of the crowd it was clear that the u.s. news media did not know what to make of the president's on again off again relationship with the truth series of well we have to label it untruths we now have a case where he's made another charge and he has not got evidence why are we surprised that such a racist there's until donald trump came along the white house press corps had been reluctant to accuse any american president of lying that is no longer the case the washington post has counted how many times trump has lied or misled americans the number is more than 22000 forcing journalists to call that what it