let's check in in charlotte north carolina at the democratic national
convention for us to go to luke vargas from talk radio news service luca i've
been hearing from other people on the ground there that the republican
presence at the d_n_c_ both officially and unofficially up people there to read
but the democratic message so on and so forth is way stronger than the
democratic presidents in tampa last week are you seeing the same thing
uh... absolutely seem especially here at radio ro
last night i spoke to someone from fright bart radio who is uh... staying
at the same auto but i'm staying at
and he was but saying oh it's too bad at
no one wants to speak to us we don't have enough guests will sure enough
today that tables been very very busy karl rove is here and uh... the
republicans are actually having an event in fifteen minutes in downtown charlotte
uh... he had to think of a place where the republican party would have set up a
war room
in in here in charlotte uh... you keep other would guess the nascar museum and
that's exactly where they are at the basement level they set up an area with
television screens
where their communication staff can try to push out the message abh for the
republican party here at the headquarters of the democratic movement
their interesting flu's kind if you wish to think about it right i mean on one
hand you could say well republicans are his much met better at countering with
their message of course if that was the case
their message at the r_n_c_ last week would have been much more cohesive and
strong
the other kind of argument would be republicans are feeling much more of a
sense of desperation and feeling like they can't lose three days of messaging
to almost exclusively democratic speakers during the d_n_c_ any what's
your sense of which it is
uh... because they're the democrats were trying to counter message in tampa
as you remember joe biden was scheduled to do uh... a multiple date or of
florida had to cancel that because of the hurricane all also debbie wasserman
schultz spokeswoman for the d_n_c_ i was in tampa quite a bit trying to do
interviews uh... so you know that they tried by the weather got in the way but
here the republicans are are coming a lot harder on this there really is to
really try to actively counter message but they're not the only groups here
paul ryan is also going to be in the state of north carolina and libertarian
a party candidate gary johnson is going to be a balding a rally uh... program i
want a legalization rally in downtown charlotte later this evening that's a
lots of flats of groups thinking that maybe it's louisiana counter message
here in this wide open sea of charlotte than it is in the more restrictive
downtown area of tampa bay yet so we'll wait and see what actually of that
presence makes its way through incident in the people's minds and in the
mainstream media it may well we'll just have to wait and see
the other thing i wanted to check in with you about his rumor starting mostly
on conservative website understandably that president obama thursday night
speech might have to be moved from the stadium into the main convention area of
course the reason that they would be stating would be can't get enough
they're they're not able to get enough people what's the reality of the rumor
where does this then
though the rumor right now is really only being uh... put forth by the daily
mail and read reports of appt
mentor but that is as you want
uh... but there could be other excuses given for potential changes including
the weather which last night and we had a really really nice day yesterday sunny
people were enjoying the carnival atmosphere outside in many really
certain lightning storm came through i looked at my rape dark all of north
carolina was read with those uh... storm pockets and it was a stamp on your for
our so they could cite whether a but they have been trying to do a lot of
efforts the democrats to get people into that seventy-plus thousand
person stadium one of them being which i think is quite cold is nine three one
program which is for volunteers kuku volunteer nine hours to work here at the
convention over three ships will get one ticket to see present obama speak on
thursday i'm guessing they got a few thousand people through that i've seen
many people in town who are just visitors who are needing delegates we're
still coming to charlotte soaps it would be my impression that the public could
fill it
you know there are rumors that they uh... that they may not be so will have
to see maybe later tonight will know more but uh... mid inot a clear answer
back until tomorrow or later ourselves goods or watch i'm looking forward to
michelle obama speech tonight will be doing is the response on youtube is
needed all plastic for the democratic here are the republican keynote speakers
then we'll talk to you tomorrow because the thing that luke vargas talk radio
news service
in charlotte north carolina thanks lou