Mornings on the Hill Election Coverage November 4, 2020

chief among them to reach for the white house we’ll have the latest reaction from the candidates
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and the latest members in the polls also our reporters are at all the polling stations
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on Tuesday and we’ll have all those results coming up
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I m James Corrigan speaking with SU students voting for the first time more details coming
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up on mornings on the hill
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good morning my name is Cyera Williams and i have details very good details about Balter
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and pat pill race going on right now tune in some mornings on how to find out more
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hi my name is Izzy tabs i went to Irwin method is sure to come check out election day 2020.
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I ll have more for you on the story on mornings on the hill all the election news you can
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handle this morning on mornings on the hill good morning
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I m sierra rider thanks for joining us on this special election coverage edition of
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mornings on the hill
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and I m fort hatchet let’s go ahead and get right to our top story which is the still
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undecided race for the white house even in the morning after the associated press still
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not calling the presidential race we didn’t know the results before midnight
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in 1960 68 76 2004 or 2016 and you can now add 2020 to that list as well last night former
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vice president joe Biden thanked voters for remaining patient and said he is hopeful and
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believes his campaign is on the right track as voting continues around voting continues
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across the country to be counted and around two in the morning president trump claimed
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victory and asked for votes to stop being counted and states he was leading like Michigan
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and Wisconsin and asking for votes in Arizona a state he was trailing to continue to be
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counted pence vice president pence immediately tried to backtrack but trump’s allegation
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of election fraud loomed over the event a few swing states already in and the latest
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in the electoral college vote totals show a slight lead for Biden with
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votes in several states still being counted the associated press has called both Arizona
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and New Hampshire for Biden while Florida Iowa Ohio and Texas will remain red for president
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trump just as they did in 2016.
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swing states we’re still waiting on Georgia north Carolina Michigan Pennsylvania all leaning
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towards trump right now Nevada and Wisconsin are leaning towards Biden right now and the
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new York times predicted that it would indeed take multiple days for some of those states
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to be called this includes Pennsylvania Michigan and Georgia the times did predict however
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that by noon today the results would be known for Wisconsin and Nevada has no timeline on
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how long that will take but the election does need to be called by November 28th
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currently the race to 270 Biden is at 2 38. trump is at 2 13. and it was of
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course a huge absentee ballot turnout this year
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100 million early votes cast before voting began yesterday
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and 92 million absentee ballots were sent out
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right now, all eyes are on the states Pennsylvania Wisconsin and Michigan
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where absentee ballot counting could be a major factor in who wins this
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presidential election here in New York over 1 million have
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voted absentee and 2 million voted early in person
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and as you mentioned those absentee ballots not just being counted here in
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New York but around the country as well right now it appears democrats
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will maintain control of the house of representatives but their chances of
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taking the senate are shrinking let us take a look at the house numbers
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first the republicans significantly outperforming pre-election polling
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although it does appear that democrats will maintain control of the house
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although not with as many seats as they expected
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in the senate the associated press reporting that the race still hinges on
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a few key races but republicans appear to have the edge
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Joni Ernst holding on in Iowa and senate majority leader s mitch McConnell expected
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to maintain his seat in Kentucky and become the longest serving
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republican senate leader in the nation’s history
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in South Carolina Lindsey graham staved off challenger Jamie Harrison
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who raised over 100 million dollars? trying to take down one of president
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trump’s closest confidants in Alabama Florida auburn football coach
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tommy Tuberville whooping up on is the winner over Doug
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jones who shocked the world turning jeff sessions seat blue in a 2017 special
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election not all bad news for democrats though
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john Hicken looper the former presidential candidate defeating
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incumbent cory Gardner in Colorado and former astronaut mark Kelly knocking
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off the incumbent Martha McSally in Arizona the senate now
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is going to hinge on a couple of races not yet finalized the incumbent tom
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tills in North Carolina leading over Cal Cunningham right now
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still some votes to be counted there in Michigan
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a potential upset brewing combat veteran john James currently leading democratic
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incumbent Gary peters still some votes to be counted there in the presidential
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race as well and four-term senator Susan Collins in
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Maine appears to be on her way to a fifth term
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leading with 85 percent of the vote in but that race also
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too close to call right now that is right ford plus important to note
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Maine and Nebraska do things a bit differently the two states are the only
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to not use a winner, take all system instead using the congressional district
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method and typically, Maine Nebraska send two
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votes the state’s popular vote winner then one vote goes to the popular vote
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winner in each congressional district almost always the votes become too close
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to call crucial swing districts across the
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united states have been the deciding factor in several key races our rob flax
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joins us with his analysis and how these are these counties are
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splitting Rob?
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thanks sierra when we look at the map here it is important that the margins
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of the victories are so important we are going to start it off in
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Texas the reason that Biden was not able to win Texas is these rio Grande valley
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communities you can see he won a couple of those
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but those margins were very small 50 to 48 here in Culberson county
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as we move down in Webb county 59 to 39 just not wide enough of a margin
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and that is important because those swing districts that did not break for Biden
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heavily enough is the story of last night and what is going to come
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out from those polling if we look at Iowa the northeast part of
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Iowa all these counties right here these are Obama trump counties and
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as you can see, they are splitting heavily for the president
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we looked a place like Chickasaw county 65 to 33
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in favor of the president and we take a look at Hancock county that is 71 to 27
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percent so again those split counties are going for the
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president you can see that also happening
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in Florida if we look Biden actually, over performing in the Tampa
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region Pinellas county he has 27 277 thousand votes and if we look
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at Hillsborough county he is winning with 374 but guys
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that is a bigger margin but it literally does not matter because here in
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Miami Dade he was only up by about five and if Biden wanted to win Florida he
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would have had to been up by eight nine even closer to ten points and that’s why
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Florida has been decisively called now if we take a look at the Midwest states
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that are still undecided we’re seeing Wisconsin we’re seeing Michigan
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and we’re seeing Pennsylvania but what we can see is that Ohio has been called
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again, those crucial Midwest states that broke for the president
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in 2016 as well and if we look at some of these counties
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we can look at Cuyahoga county 65 66 to 32 joseph r Biden but again not
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wide enough of a margin 200 000 votes but that’s the metro area
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that’s where most of those democratic votes
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are going to be coming in bine was expecting closer to 260 000
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not what he received there and that’s what we can see with all these states
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is that those races are still going to be coming from those absentee ballots
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guys this race is still far from over but it is trending towards the president
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based on those results it’s definitely close
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thanks for breaking it down for us rob and late
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last night president trump declared victory even though there are millions
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of votes left to be counted the president talked
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about those votes urging the vote counting to be stopped
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he said and i quote this is a fraud on the American public
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this is an embarrassment to our country we were getting ready to win this
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election frankly, we did win this election in his
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late address he also brought in the supreme court
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stating we want the law to be used in a proper manner we’ll be going to the US
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supreme court we want all voting to stop the last time
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that a presidential race has been contested to the supreme court was in
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2000 in the goer bush race and businesses in major cities across
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the united states have boarded up to protect against potential protests
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following election results in New York stores in soho started to
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board up as early as Halloween weekend with more across the city on Monday
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people began boarding up stores in Washington dc at 6 a.m. on Monday
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working all the way until midnight they’ve also barricaded rodeo drive many
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other stores and streets and cities have done the same
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all in anticipation of fallout from the election results
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coming up here on moorings on the hill we’ll be joined by representatives from
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the college democrats and republicans in an election panel
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reporter Sam Croston is live with the unofficial voter turnout numbers be sure
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to stay tuned
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and welcome back to mornings on the hill I m fort hatchet quick update for you
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the associated press still has joe Biden ahead with 238 electoral votes to
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president trump’s 213. key state of Michigan has 94 percent of
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the voters reporting now and Biden with less than half a point
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lead over president trump for the state’s 16 electoral votes
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now joining us to discuss what we’re seeing this morning is Dominic Biamonte
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a representative from the college republicans
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and thank you Dominic for getting up early and being with us this morning
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i want to start lots of ballots still being tally this morning but how are you
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feeling about the republicans performance last night in the general
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election feeling about the republican performance
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last night in the general election um overall uh I d say they and
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me in particular we were rather confident towards the end of the night
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um we still remain a little bit confident um but there are still
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many of us to be counted um i think that a lot of that confidence came from
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the lack of a blowout earlier in the night um which was feared
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uh it was feared that if we lost Florida which was a real fear
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um that the rest would go too and the same applied to Georgia
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to Texas and to North Carolina some of those fears haven’t subsided
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Georgia is still very close but the republican party or at least members of
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the republican party that I ve spoken to in the last
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few hours since last night are still fairly optimistic um but we
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have the same reasons to be optimistic as i would say some of our democratic
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counterparts do um because any leads that we have right
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now in some key states are rather slim but the same can be said
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for the Biden campaign especially in Wisconsin
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and Michigan where it may only come down to a few thousand votes
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just like it did last time um and you mentioned some of those battleground
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states like Wisconsin and Michigan you think the republican party should
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still be confident in those places even with the numbers rolling in this morning
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this morning um i would be cautiously optimistic about it
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um as we know that you know Biden has been polling better
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historically um throughout this election in both of those states
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whereas trump by this point um or by you know election day in 2016 had been
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pulling significantly better in Wisconsin and Michigan than he had been
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um prior to it um is there a chance that he could still?
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pull out Wisconsin or Michigan uh yes but he really does need one of
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them um Wisconsin i feel would probably be
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easier for him to pull out than Michigan um if he wants to take the rest of it uh
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particularly if we’re under the assumption that he takes
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Pennsylvania but we still don’t know very much about
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how the vote will go in Pennsylvania um he’s currently up by roughly 600 000
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votes in Pennsylvania right now but there’s still many to be counted
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um whereas with Wisconsin we’re kind of running out of time of course last night
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president trump took to the stage and asserted election fraud threatened to
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take the election to the courts and declared victory do you think he
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still has full support of his party in making those comments obviously senators
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Romney and ben sasse have been critical in the past even
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representative john Katko here in our area do you think the republican party
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stands behind those comments do you think
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um maybe some of them do but i can tell you that
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um from speaking to a few of my colleagues that
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that support on those statements is definitely not universal um we were kind
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of shocked last night when we heard um that he was going to declare victory
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um declare that he had effectively won when we knew that wasn’t the case the
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states he needed to win hadn’t been called and they won’t be
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called um for several days possibly um and i i
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think it’s a bit egregious for him to go out on a limb and say
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yes we’ve won this race already um we know that just not to be the case
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um there is much ballot counting still to be done
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every vote really does count in this election because it’s much closer than
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many people thought it would be and a lot of us really aren’t on board
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with a trump legal challenge unless the votes in key swing states are
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within an incredibly slim margin unless he knows something we don’t trump
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claiming victory at this point really isn’t wise and i could see
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him presenting a legal challenge in
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Pennsylvania uh Wisconsin or Michigan if these races
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finish any tighter than they are right now
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um and we you know we know how this works and
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this that that isn’t how it works all the votes have to be counted
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um and right now they haven’t been does end up losing the presidency
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where does the party go from here will we see a return a shift back to maybe
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the party of john McCain and mitt Romney or do you think this trump wave is here
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to stay uh well this is actually a discussion
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that we’ve had quite a few times um in in some conservative circles um
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it does raise a lot of questions uh you know how do we
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regroup and reunite without trump at the end of this uh does he stay
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as a prominent member of the party does he keep this going for a while
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um it really is up in the air um i think we would have to really
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reassess the direction of the party in the senate
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and also take a look at how we think that the trump approach to politics this
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you know scorched earth policy of politics and perpetual campaigning um
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really moves forward how it really benefits the republican party if it
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benefits the republican party um and if the country wants that if they
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don’t want it then we may have to kind of start over
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um which we did in 2012 we had to look at
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our losses and say this is not what the country wants they
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want something else um so we need to adjust our policies and
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our approach to those policies in a different way
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and Dominic i want to i want to pivot quickly uh one last question locally
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we’re still awaiting an official tally but barring a huge dana balter comeback
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it seems john Katko will retain his health seat
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what went right for Katko or wrong for balter in this race from your opinion
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just taking a look at the polling from last night i know it hasn’t really been
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updated but with 78 reporting um that margin
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of what i wouldn’t call it victory but but the margin he’s holding over balter
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right now is far more significant um than anything
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he held in 2018 and i remember that because he
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was polling at plus 15 in some cases above balter
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leading into election night in 2018 and then only one by five points um
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i think it indicates that the district um
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which can go blue in its entirety still actually, prefers a moderate republican
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congressman to a left-leaning candidate and their policies
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when applied at this level of government um
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i think the polls really drastically underestimated Katko you know
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we’ve been hearing um all election season that this has been a dead heat
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and that balter has consistently been leading Katko and that it’s a toss-up
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um but as of last night that doesn’t really seem to be the case anymore i
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think it would probably be difficult um for balter to close a 21-point gap
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um with roughly 20 of the vote still to come in she could
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could she close the gap just a bit she absolutely could um we’re still waiting
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on a lot of absentee votes um but you know Katko is in a really
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strong place and i think it probably speaks
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a lot to um how the district trusts um his ability to represent them in
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congress um as he has for the last few years
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and as you mentioned uh thousands of votes still to be cast here and around
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the country in races a lot of races far from over Dominic i
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want to thank you for being with us early this morning
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i should note before we go we did invite the college democrats to join us as well
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no one from their party was able to make it
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the Westinghouse electric and manufacturing company
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in east Pittsburgh Pennsylvania we shall now broadcast the election returns
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that was kdka in Pittsburgh s election coverage broadcast from 100 years ago
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that broadcast marked the first time any news station covered election night
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and the numbers coming in the 1920 election was between warren Harding and
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James cox Harding would go on to become the 29th
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president this election was also the first time
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women could vote in the years since that first election broadcast
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obviously, election coverage has become a giant moment in news
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major networks now have 24-hour coverage and shows like ours have the entire
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rundown dedicated to the election results
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continuing our election coverage early reports are indicating record turnout at
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the polls both nationally and locally reporter Sam
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Croston has the preliminary numbers in the new
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record from Onondaga county thanks guys it became clear over the
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past few days that more people have been heading to the polls
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this election season over 90 million early ballots casts in the 43 states
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that allow it and Washington dc with voter turnout
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yesterday early estimates put the number of total votes at over 150 million
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this would mark the highest turnout of eligible voters since 1908.
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in Onondaga county unofficial reports show over 230 000 voters cast their
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ballots this year that’s a new record Onondaga
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county election commissioner Dustin Czarny tweeted voters numbers exceeded the
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previous record of 220 000 over two years over two excuse me
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over two hours before the close the polls closed yesterday
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by the end of the night he was reporting the number went beyond 230 000
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now millions of votes are still being counted and the official number of
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absentee ballots may not be counted until next week all
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of that to say that there are some records that may still be broken in this
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upcoming election for mornings on the hill I m Samantha
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Croston back to you guys in the studio thank you Samantha local elections are
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also, still up in the air here in Onondaga county
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and as you said in addition to the record turnout there was a record number
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of absentee ballots mailed in this year the county cannot start counting those
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until November 9th but in the meantime the race between john Katko and dana
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balter is all but confirmed Katko leading with
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58 percent of the vote and the absentee votes will most likely
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not be enough for balter to catch up other key races around
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central New York Claudia tenney and Anthony Brindisi
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in the 22nd congressional district it looks like tenney’s going to take that
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race that’s a rematch from 2018 but coming up after the break we’ll have
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more in-depth looks at these races as well as stories from yesterday’s polling
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locations be sure to stay with us and not go
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anywhere on mornings on the hill
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welcome back we’re taking a look around central New York where it looks like
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republicans are currently holding the lead
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the 24th district race is being dominated right now by incumbent
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john Katko we have moorings on the hill sierra Williams to take a closer look
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yes, those numbers are looking pretty good for republican representative john
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Katko with about 155 000 votes
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and dana balter behind by a good lump sum of 100 000 votes
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Katko is dominating the county of Onondaga, Oswego
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and Cayuga having just a couple of points up and on the dog about blowing
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balter out of the water in Oswego and Cayuga at this time only
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78 of the votes have been received and if
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you’re looking at the very empty part of that graph right there
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that empty part would be the absentee ballots that cannot be open
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until November 9th which is almost a week away
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now according to syracuse.com this race is in dead heat because New York state
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republicans are trying to seize back seats in a
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congressional delegation that the party lost two years ago
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democrats have hopes of winning two-thirds super majority in the state
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senate that way the state can move further to the left
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but chances of that are looking pretty slim in Syracuse sierra Williams
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mornings on the hill well democrats in the area are looking
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to elect dana balter who actually has close ties to s-u as a former professor
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in the maxwell school our reporter josh miller has more on the
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story there are many famous alumni and faculty that come to mind when you hear
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Syracuse university but one in particular is dana balter
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Balter is currently running for congress but before her time as a political
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figure was a Syracuse professor Syracuse student Sarah slavin
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experienced balter in class firsthand i thought she was a great professor um
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the set class i had with her the way the class was it was a
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lecture for with one professor and then a discussion twice a week with her
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and i definitely think her knowledge professor helps her in the in the um
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process because it’s like a very well respected job and knows that she has put
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stuff into the computer community she’s helped Syracuse students
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um and obviously has had relations and with other faculty
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and staff at the university as well well many famous political figures have
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come through Syracuse including former vice president joe Biden
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and local congressman john Katko both graduates of Syracuse
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prestigious law school circling back to campus our team was spread out at
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different polling locations in Onondaga county on election day our
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reporter James Corrigan stayed very local and checked out what was going on
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right here on campus at the Marshall street polling location
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Marshall street is one of the centers of life on the SU campus
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but instead of buying orange gear or grabbing a sugary snack
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students flocked across the street to vote at Huntington hall
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many for the first time i thought it was a pretty cool experience to be able to
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go there and you know get my own voice in our
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democracy i feel like i had the power to do
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something now i don’t know it was my first time but
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it was i was a little nervous i guess when i walked in there but it was good
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walking in and casting a ballot for the first time
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can be intimidating what were you nervous about it’s just the first time
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doing something wrong i guess filling out something wrong something like that
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like the larger SU student body many of these voters do not originally hail from
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the Syracuse area Westchester county Manhattan originally
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from New York city Massapequa Unadilla New York I m from
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union springs New York I m originally from Texas the decision
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of students to vote here instead of in their home
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towns is largely due to the easy access the university gives them to vote
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the university made it very accessible and easy for me to vote here i was able
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to just walk right in and didn’t really have to do anything new
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for one student though the decision was more strategical
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local elections this year with dana balter and Katko
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i mean definitely big gear and we definitely want to make sure there’s
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impact and change made in this local community as well
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regardless of the motivation one enduring principle remains for these
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students i feel like it’s a responsibility to
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vote and it’s a privilege so why not use that privilege i would
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say i felt empowered being able to show my voice
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and that was our James Corrigan reporting well with 80 percent of the estimated
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votes reported Claudia tenney is the projected winner
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she has a 10 percent lead over income Anthony Brindisi
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but she hasn’t declared victory just yet let’s take a closer look at those
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numbers for this race as of right now Claudia tenney is
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leading Anthony burn dizzy in the 22nd congressional district race
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this is according to the New York board of elections with a majority of the
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votes counted by midnight on Tuesday tenney leads burn Disney about 53
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percent to 43 percent tenney has yet to declare victory
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acknowledging absentee ballots still could tip the election in Brindisi s
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favor if burnishing secures around 21 thousand
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male and voters from democrats he could still be in the
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running and the democratic incumbent pundits he
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did say he’s still hopeful voters will give him a second chance
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but as we know republican Claudia tenney who actually held the seat until 2018?
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when she lost to Brindisi she holds a 10-point lead over Brindisi
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with around 84 percent of the votes counted
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on election night congressman Brindisi went live on Facebook saying his
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campaign decided not to have an election night rally because of the covet 19
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numbers going up the congressman also saying they are in
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for a long night and unlikely likely a long couple of weeks with
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almost seventy thousand absentee ballots not yet counted
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two years ago, we did not know who won until nearly thanksgiving
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and given the number of ballots outstanding
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we are ready to wait for the results to come in
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well tensions are high this week as over 230 000 people
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in Onondaga county have cast their vote for the candidate they want to see take
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the oval office our Samantha crossing tells us about one
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volunteer whose service made voters smile at the polls
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no matter who they are voting for
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have little technical difficulties there but still
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to come here
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on Maureen s on the hill election day is behind us but
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the conversations are still going find out how new house students are
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getting involved in the election discussions
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we’ll be right back
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welcome back to mornings on the hill it’s just after 10 30 Wednesday morning
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we have another quick update for you in the race for the presidency
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joe Biden has just taken the lead in the state of Michigan the former vice
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president leading 49.3 percent to 49.1 percent
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still a very close race that we’ll be sure, to keep our eyes on and update you
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and even with election day behind us and results still coming in tough political
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conversations are still ahead for our country
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reporter Sarah Al-Shaikh tells us how the new house school is having one of those
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conversations today as part of their 2020 election series
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so having a chance to step back away from
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the day-to-day headlines the minute by minute second by second
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twitter headlines social media all that and talk a little
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bit about those effects talk a little bit about uh what’s uh
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how we are feeling about all those things just one day after the election
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and with so much still on people’s minds Newhouse is
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giving students and faculty the chance to talk about it new house professors
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and panelists are leading conversations about this
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year’s election Scott McFarlane is an SU alum who spoke
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at a recent discussion and he says as a reporter self-care right now is
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important it’s possible to put the phone in a
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different room when you sleep if it’s possible to put on a rerun
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of Seinfeld instead of the news Anne Osborne is a new house professor who
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also spoke at a discussion Osborne says her students are
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comfortable having these tough conversations but
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she encourages them to draw boundaries for themselves as well
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if you feel that it is getting too emotional then again it’s perfectly fine
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to say i need to put a pause on this and we can
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come back to it at another time
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well tonight’s discussion is about what’s next after election day it starts
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at 7 pm and can be viewed via zoom or in person
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at the herg auditorium in new house 3. students must register online and right
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now we are joined by professor hub brown who led that new house discussion
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professor brown thank you so much for joining us
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well thank you for having me as we speak the election is still
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undecided so how important is it going to be for us to talk about the election
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results and have those sometimes difficult
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conversations after the race is decided well i think it’s incredibly important
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to continue to talk about what’s going on continue to
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to exchange views the election is is is one
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uh point in the process and uh that continues
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and so you know it’s we sit here at this moment
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and the election is still undecided once it is decided then the conversation
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about what happens around this country continues to go on
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it’s not something that we just say well we had an election and we decided
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that and we’re done thinking we’re not done thinking we’re not done
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talking and i think we have to make sure that we
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continue to have those uh conversations and you have been in new house for a
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number of large elections has this particular election year felt
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any different to you here oh i think it has i think it absolutely
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has this is um um yes I ve been here for several uh
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elections uh general elections and uh the country is quite frankly a
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lot more divided now than it’s been in a very long time
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and i think it’s it kind of i think that’s a very obvious thing for
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a whole lot of people i think what’s not so obvious is kind of what it means in
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our day-to-day conversation that we want to do more to sort of seek
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common ground we’re not going to have to work harder
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to do that and i think that um that’s what the future is now
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that’s where we’re where we need to go and that’s where our obligations to each
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other are absolutely and so professor brown you’ve
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been at new house since 1996 such a large presence on the new house faculty
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but you have been named the new university of Florida in their
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journalism and communication school so what are you looking forward to when
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you head down there well i think I m looking forward to
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continuing to do the work to uh to make sure that that
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journalism continues to grow and stay healthy that
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that what we do in mass communications that what we’ve done here at the new
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house school and other places like it like the university of Florida
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college journalism and communication uh that that the work we do
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continues that we find new ways to reach audiences that we find new ways
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to improve the craft across communications
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and and that we find ways obviously to get students through
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get them jobs get them employed turn them into leaders
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that’s the job that’s what we have to do and so I m looking forward to doing that
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in uh in in Gainesville but uh Newhouse never leaves you this is
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I ll always be new house well we will certainly be missing you here at new
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house when you leave later this summer but we do want to congratulate you
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on this news we know you will do great things in Florida thank you so much for
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joining us this morning thank you absolutely great
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congratulations to professor brown here back in our area mail-in ballots
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were more popular in this election than ever due to covet 19 but in skinny atlas
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senior citizens flooded to the polls on election day
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reporter maya locket tells us why it was so important for them to vote in
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person i heard you say you’re first-time
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voter that’s really exciting it is Diane
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Thompson waited until she was 67 years old
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to vote for the first time i have finally come to where i have strong
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beliefs in my age now and what i really want
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or would like to have in our country and now that she has voted
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she feels wonderful, wonderful i recommend it to everyone like
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Diane many other elders voted in person
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despite the rising numbers in covet 19 they wanted to make sure that their vote
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counted i think because of everything I ve heard
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that has really made me want to just come in
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versus mainland voting and i just feel more secure with this
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many Minneapolis residents felt safe going to their neighborhood polls
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because of the limited amount of people there haven’t been many people here
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today they’re fewer people than i thought there might
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be but everyone was wearing a mask and they
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had people distanced in there i felt very safe and for others
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physically going to the polls gives them a sense of purpose i want to
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do it in person i wanted to come and physically do it at
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the better polling place just meant something once
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for mornings on the hill I m maya locket
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well a 17-year veteran of the board of elections is hanging up his uniform
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our reporter Ryan Clark found out how he plans for young people to take his place
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I m here at the united Methodist church on south Geddes street in Syracuse
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where hundreds of voters are flocking to cast their ballot for the next president
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of the united states the only difference one elections
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inspector told democracy in action he says he thinks this election is the
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most important one of his entire lifetime well i think it’s
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time for some of the younger people to start
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getting involved especially uh people of color blacks are
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not Hispanics need to get a little bit more involved
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in this so I m trying to make room for them don
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Abrams has been an elections inspector and employee for the last 17 years he
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says his hard work is to help provide everyone with a
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better future after almost 20 years Abrams is calling
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it quits he says it’s time for someone else to
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fill his shoes and work to increase the vote he isn’t
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alone Abrams pointed to the young children
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all over the united Methodist church just like little jingle heron
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who came with his dad to the polls he says these kids are the future
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Django’s dad said the same thing that he brought his son
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to help him vote so that he understands how important it is
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later on my privilege to vote is my you know it’s
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my American duty that was granted by
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people along before me on south Geddes street in Syracuse
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I m Ryan Clark for democracy in action well that’s great we love to see young
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people getting involved in politics well that is going to do it for us on
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this very special election coverage edition of marines on the hill I m
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sierra rider and I m fort hatchet thank you so much
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orange nation for tuning in on this post election day coverage
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we’ll see you next Wednesday live at 10 a.m. right here on OTN
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stay safe and have a great day