POSITION FOR BIDEN BURGER HAS
BEEN READ OVER THE YEARS BUT
DEMOCRATS ARE TRYING TO SWING IN
THEIR FAVOR THIS TIME.
LET’S BRING JOHN BUSSEY IN THE
WALL STREET JOURNAL EDITOR TO
TALK ABOUT THIS.
WE WANTED TO PLAY BACK THE
VOTERS THAT WE HAD HEARD FROM
THROUGHOUT THE WEEK, THAT WAS
ALL BEFORE JOE BIDEN SPEECH LAST
NIGHT AND FOR SOME OF THE
UNDECIDED VOTERS THAT ALL VOTED
FOR TRUMP LAST TIME AROUND, SOME
OF THEM HAD NOT QUITE JUMPED ON
BIDEN BANDWAGON YET EVEN THOUGH
THEY SOURED ON TRUMP ERIE THE
QUESTION BECOMES DID BIDEN DO
ENOUGH TO SWAY SOME OF THEM LAST
NIGHT.
>> WE WILL SEE, THAT WAS THE
INTENT OF THAT SPEECH WITH A
CONVENTION BEFORE INCLUDING A
LOT OF REPUBLICANS, SOME JUST
LIKE THE REPUBLICANS THAT YOU
SPOKE TO JUST NOW, THE TRUMP
VOTERS THAT YOU JUST SPOKE TO,
THEY SAID WERE SWITCHING OUR
VOTE FROM TRUMP TO BIDEN.
THAT WAS THE INTENT OF THE
CONVENTION AND OF THE BIDEN
SPEECH WAS TO SPREAD THEM VERY
WIDE TO SAY THERE IS A HOME IN
HERE FOR YOU FROM A POLICY
STANDPOINT BUT ALSO FROM A
PERSON IN, IT’S GOING TO BE VERY
INTERESTING BECAUSE NOW YOU
RESPOND TO THAT AT THE
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION,
THEY HAD A CHANCE TO SEE WHAT
THE DEMOCRATS DID AND THEY WILL
LEARN FROM THAT AND DEPLOY THEIR
STRATEGY IN THE COMING WEEKS.
CONNELL: WE WILL BE IN SOME OF
THOSE STATES AND THE PRESIDENT
GOING TO NORTH CAROLINA WILL BE
THERE, GEORGIA HE HAS TO WIN AND
I THINK THE SAME GOES FOR
FLORIDA, IF YOU’RE PRESIDENT
TRUMP YOU MENTION HOW BIDEN
TRIED TO APPEAL TO THE UNDECIDED
UNDECIDED, THE PRESIDENT USUALLY
IN THE CAMPAIGN SETTING GOES
IN THE CAMPAIGN SETTING GOES
AFTER THE BASE TO SOLIDIFY
THAT’S HIS INSTINCT I THINK, BUT
NEXT WEEK YOU THINK HE NEEDS TO
MOVE TO MORE OF THE PEOPLE WHO
HAVE NOT MADE UP THEIR MIND?
>> I’M NOT SO SURE, THERE IS AN
EXCELLENT ARTICLE RIGHT NOW WITH
AARON FIT THERE AND ALEX THAT
LOOK AT THE NUMBER OF WHAT TRUMP
HAS TO DO AND WHAT TRUMP IS
TRYING TO DO RIGHT NOW, THEIR
STRATEGY IS DIRECTED AT THIS,
THAT IS MAYBE NOT GOING TOWARD
THE UNDECIDED, NOT TRY TO GET
DEMOCRATS THAT ARE DISINFECTED
FROM THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TO
VOTE FOR TRUMP.
BUT INSTEAD TO GET A MUCH
GREATER TURNOUT OF THAT BASE
THAT YOU JUST TALKED ABOUT
BECAUSE 2016, NOT ONLY SHOWED
THAT A LOT OF TRADITIONAL
DEMOCRATIC VOTERS IT DID NOT
TURN OUT BUT THE GROUP THAT
TRADITIONALLY VOTES FOR
PRESIDENT TRUMP THAT IS
NON-COLLEGE-EDUCATED, PEOPLE
WITH JOBS, THAT GROUP DID NOT
TURN OUT EXCESSIVELY IN 2016,
THERE IS A LOT OF ROOM FOR HIM
TO GENERATE MORE ENTHUSIASM
AMONG THE BASE WITHIN THE BASE
TO GET BIGGER TURNOUT.
FOR EXAMPLE THIS IS FROM
BOOKINGS INSTITUTE NUMBERS THAT
IS IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
STORY, 62% OF NONVOTERS IN
PENNSYLVANIA WERE
NON-COLLEGE-EDUCATED WORKING
PEOPLE, 62%, SIMILARLY IN
MICHIGAN, 62% IN WISCONSIN.
HE WON BY A TINY MARGIN,
DOUBLING DOWN ON HIS APPEAL TO
THE BASE AT THE REPUBLICAN
THE BASE AT THE REPUBLICAN
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
CONNELL: I THINK ONE OF THE
CHALLENGES, JUST POPPED INTO MY
MIND AS YOU ARE SPEAKING, TWO OR
THREE PEOPLE IN PENNSYLVANIA
THAT I SPOKE WITH AND WE DID NOT
PUT THEM ON THE AIR, THE REASON
WHY THEY SAID I NEVER VOTED IN
MY LIFE AND I WILL NOT START
NOW, WE CHUCKLED AND WALKED
AWAY.
IF THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE AND THEY
HAVE NOT VOTED IN THE 60%, WILL
THEY ACTUALLY VOTE THIS TIME,
MAYBE THERE NONVOTERS.
>> THAT’S ENTIRELY POSSIBLE.
THE DEMOCRATS ALSO THIS IS A
POTENTIAL HUNDRED FOR TRUMP
STRATEGY IN A PURELY MORE DEEPLY
TO THIS GROUP, THE DEMOCRATS
ALSO HAVE A LARGE NUMBER OF
NONVOTERS WHO HAVE TRADITIONALLY
VOTED DEMOCRATIC IN THEIR CAMP
AS WELL, THEY WILL BE GOING
AFTER THE CONVENTION WAS ALL
ABOUT THAT.
YOU MAY SEE A SURGE IN THE
DEMOCRATIC SIDE JUST AS YOU
MIGHT SEE A SURGE IN THE
REPUBLICAN SIDE IF PRESIDENT
TRUMP IS SUCCESSFUL IN GETTING
