FOCUS AND THE BENEFIT AND THE
OPPORTUNITY IS FOR THE JOE BIDEN
CAMPAIGN.
>> SO PUT ON YOUR VETERAN OF
POLITICAL CAMPAIGNING AUTHORITY
FOR THIS QUESTION.
AND THAT IS WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO
JOE BIDEN’S CAMPAIGN THAT IN
EFFECT TONIGHT THE DEMOCRATS
HAVE CANCELED THE CONVENTION
SAYING THAT DELEGATES SHOULD NOT
COME TO THE CONVENTION, THAT IT
SHOULD ALL BE BASICALLY HELD
VIRTUALLY.
WE DON’T HAVE A MODEL FOR THIS.
WE HAVE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE.
BUT GIVEN WHERE THIS CAMPAIGN
IS, DONALD TRUMP IS STILL HOPING
TO HAVE A VERSION OF A
CONVENTION IN FLORIDA WHERE THE
CORONAVIRUS IS RAGING.
WHAT IS THE CONVENTION EFFECT
GOING TO BE IN THIS CAMPAIGN?
>> YOU KNOW, I DON’T KNOW WHAT
THE EFFECT ON THE NUMBER OF
VOTES IS GOING TO BE, BUT I DO
KNOW THAT THIS MOMENT REQUIRES
AN UNCONVENTIONAL STRATEGY.
YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO
DO THE THINGS THAT YOU COULD DO
BEFORE.
YOU CANNOT GO AND SPEAK TO
VOTERS PERSON TO PERSON.
AND THAT’S REALLY WHERE MUCH OF
THE PERSUASION HAPPENS.
SO YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO JUST
GO WITH IT.
GO WITH THE REALITY.
AND THAT ALSO CREATES AN
OPPORTUNITY.
SO WHILE THE CONTRAST COULD NOT
BE CLEARER, DONALD TRUMP IS
WILLINGLY PUTTING HIS OWN
SUPPORTERS INTO HARM’S WAY AND
ANYBODY WHO THEY COME INTO
CONTACT WITH, FRANKLY, AND JOE
BIDEN IS NOT WILLING TO DO THAT
BECAUSE HE IS LISTENING TO THE
SCIENTISTS.
SO IT SHOWS THE CONTRAST IN
LEADERSHIP, BUT IT PROVIDES
BIDEN WITH AN OPPORTUNITY TO
COMMUNICATE WITH VOTERS IN AN
ORGANIC FASHION USING SOCIAL
MEDIA AND SOCIAL PLATFORMS.
THEY ARE ALREADY DOING THIS
FRANKLY.
THEY HAVE HAD DJ EVENTS WITH
D-NICE AND KAMALA HARRIS.
SO MORE THINGS LIKE THAT ARE THE
WAY IN WHICH JOE BIDEN AND HIS
CAMPAIGN CAN COMMUNICATE WITH
THE VOTERS HE NEEDS TO TURN OUT
BECAUSE THAT’S WHERE THIS
ELECTION WILL BE WON OR LOST.
AND MARY TRUMP MADE A VERY
CRITICAL POINT AT THE END OF
THAT INTERVIEW, WHICH IS THAT IN
ORDER FOR DONALD TRUMP TO
BASICALLY SLINK AWAY IN DEFEAT,
HE NEEDS TO BE RESOUNDLY
DEFEATED.
AND THAT IS AN IMPORTANT POINT.
BECAUSE THAT MEANS THAT WE HAVE
TO FOCUS ON MAIL-IN VOTING
ACCESS RIGHT NOW, MAKE SURE THAT
FUNDING IS THERE TO SCALE UP THE
MAIL-IN VOTING IN THE STATES
WHERE IT IS NOT ACCESSIBLE SO
THAT JOE BIDEN’S VOTERS CAN
ACCESS THE BALLOT BECAUSE IF YOU
CAN’T ACCESS IT, IS IT REALLY A
RIGHT?
>> THERE IS A LOT OF POLLING
INFORMATION THAT WE COULD TALK
ABOUT TONIGHT.
BUT I’M WONDERING IF WE’RE AT
THE POINT IN THIS CAMPAIGN WHERE
THE NUMBERS WE NEED TO WATCH
THAT COULD TELL US WHAT THE
RESULT IS GOING TO BE ARE
BASICALLY THE CORONAVIRUS
NUMBERS, THAT IF YOU LOOK INTO,
SAY, THIS STUNNING NUMBER THAT
CAME OUT OF FLORIDA WHERE THEY
TESTED HIGH SCHOOL AGE KIDS AND
YOUNGER AND THEY FOUND 31% OF
THEM TESTING POSITIVE FOR
CORONAVIRUS WITH NUMBERS LIKE
THAT COMING OUT WHILE ONE
CANDIDATE IS SAYING ALL OF THOSE
KIDS SHOULD GO BACK INTO
CLASSROOMS AND SIT SHOULDER TO
SHOULDER IN THOSE CLASSROOMS, IT
SEEMS THOSE NUMBERS ARE POINTING
TO WHO IS GOING TO WIN THAT
CAMPAIGN JUST AS STRONGLY AS THE
POLLING NUMBERS ARE.
>> THAT’S EXACTLY RIGHT.
AND ONE PERSON BELIEVES AND
LISTENS TO THE SCIENTISTS.
AND THE OTHER PERSON HAS TOLD
PEOPLE TO INJECT DISINFECTANT.
THAT’S THE THING THAT HAPPENED.
I THINK SAY IT IN EVERY SEGMENT
NOW BECAUSE I THINK IT IS THE
MOMENT WHERE WE SHOULD HAVE
SNAPPED OUT OF IT.
WE CANNOT BE GAS LIT TO OUR
DEATHS.
AND THAT’S WHAT DONALD TRUMP IS
DOING EVERY SINGLE DAY WHEN HE
COMES OUT AND PRETENDS THIS IS
NOT HAPPENING.
IT IS HAPPENING.
PEOPLE ARE DYING.
PEOPLE IN MY FAMILY HAVE DIED.
I AM AFRAID FOR EVERYONE I KNOW
BECAUSE -- AND I THINK EVERYBODY
FEELS THAT SENSE OF URGENCY
BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THE STAKES
ARE VERY, VERY HIGH IN THIS
ELECTION.
IT’S ALWAYS IMPORTANT TO
PARTICIPATE IN YOUR DEMOCRACY,
BUT THIS IS A LIFE AND DEATH
QUESTION THAT ARE BEING ASKED OF
VOTERS IN THIS COUNTRY.
AND I THINK THE ANSWERS ARE
PRETTY SIMPLE.
YOU ARE EITHER GOING TO GO WITH
THE SCIENTISTS WHO WILL ENSURE
THAT JOE BIDEN HAS THE RIGHT
INFORMATION AND THAT HE CAN
DISTRIBUTE THAT VACCINE TO THE