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Speaker 2: Jared paula surrogate for the Harris Walls campaign governor, Welcome
Speaker 2: back to Bloomberg TV and Radio. It's good to see you.
Speaker 2: The front page of The New York Times Today described
Speaker 2: Donald Trump's closing pitch as dark and dower. How would
Speaker 2: you describe Kamala Harris's.
Speaker 3: I'd add another word to Donald Trump's confused, dark, dower
Speaker 3: and confused, ivan meandering talking about all sorts of things
Speaker 3: other than what he'll do for the American people. Kamala
Speaker 3: Harris is a very clear closing degend. It's about what
Speaker 3: she's going to do for you, the character issue, fighting
Speaker 3: for you. She's on your side, Kamala Harris for the people,
Speaker 3: and really showing to America that this divisive politics of
Speaker 3: the last few years is something that we can move past.
Speaker 3: It's time to move past former presidents, the divisive rhetoric
Speaker 3: of Donald Trump and towards the future with common sense policies,
Speaker 3: a president who's going to listen to Republicans, Conservatives, people
Speaker 3: with different ideas and move our country forward for everyone.
Speaker 4: Well, the other thing we've been hearing though from the
Speaker 4: Vice President is ideas of Donald Trump being a threat
Speaker 4: to democracy, being unfit to serve. Yes, she would agree
Speaker 4: he could be characterized as a fascist, all of those
Speaker 4: arguments made in the final weeks of her campaign not
Speaker 4: necessarily being made here, though in the final twenty four
Speaker 4: hours she didn't even mention him by name yesterday. Do
Speaker 4: you agree with that strategy?
Speaker 3: Well, look, you know, I think the most powerful thing
Speaker 3: is that what you're hearing from those closest to Donald Trump,
Speaker 3: people who served in his administration, top general's, former secretaries
Speaker 3: of defense, that this is a man who should not
Speaker 3: be near the presidency because the risk is simply too great.
Speaker 3: They know him best, and I think that they make
Speaker 3: the argument very effectively. Kamala Harris is focused on a
Speaker 3: positive message of what her policies will do for American families,
Speaker 3: cutting taxes for the middle class, the opportunity agenda, moving
Speaker 3: forward with building more homes to reduce costs, helping to
Speaker 3: make sure that Americans have access to good jobs. These
Speaker 3: are the things that excite people about Kamala Harrison. It's
Speaker 3: a great note to end on.
Speaker 2: This time you joined US Governor, we asked you about
Speaker 2: Donald Trump's planned visit at the time to Aurora, Colorado.
Speaker 2: He has since made that visit. If I remember correctly,
Speaker 2: you preferred that he did not come at the time.
Speaker 2: He spoke for about an hour and a half. He
Speaker 2: had mugshots of undocumented migrants on stage with him, and
Speaker 2: he announced something that we had not heard about. If
Speaker 2: elected again, an effort called Operation Aurora to target undocumented
Speaker 2: migrant and gang members for deportation. I wonder your thoughts
Speaker 2: on how that went and if it made an impact
Speaker 2: in your state.
Speaker 3: First of all, we always welcome them here, but of
Speaker 3: course the Colorado that he talked about was very different
Speaker 3: than the Colorado that we experience every day. The city
Speaker 3: of Aurora has had crime decrease two years in a row,
Speaker 3: and we're of course working closely with them on all
Speaker 3: form of criminal threats. Look, I think what we need
Speaker 3: to focus on is what brings us together as Americans.
Speaker 3: If people are immigrants and they're following our laws, they're
Speaker 3: contributing to our country, they're working hard, we welcome them.
Speaker 3: But if they're violating our laws, if they're committing acts
Speaker 3: of violence or burglary against any others, we need to
Speaker 3: make sure that they are out of here. Kamala Harris
Speaker 3: is a former prosecutor. She's put criminals behind bars, and
Speaker 3: she will make our country safer.
Speaker 4: Well as we consider this idea of safety and of
Speaker 4: potential violence. Governor, what are you bracing for in Colorado
Speaker 4: tomorrow on election day and in the days that follow
Speaker 4: leading up to when the electors ultimately cast their votes
Speaker 4: in the state capitol on December seventeenth. What is your
Speaker 4: role as governor in ensuring the safety and security of
Speaker 4: this election process?
Speaker 3: First, of course, assuring any American people that votes that
Speaker 3: are legally cast will be accurately and fairly counted, and
Speaker 3: making sure that, of course, while we protect people's right
Speaker 3: to peacefully demonstrate that we make sure that we keep
Speaker 3: people and properties safe. No matter what the outcome of
Speaker 3: this election is, and I'm very hopeful and optimistic to
Speaker 3: the country will choose to turn the page and elect
Speaker 3: Kamala Harris. We know that almost half the country will
Speaker 3: be disappointed in the outcome, But no matter the outcome,
Speaker 3: we need to come together and move forward as a country,
Speaker 3: and I'm confident that we'll be able to do that
Speaker 3: after the alle Well.
Speaker 2: Give us some details at Governor, what's the state of
Speaker 2: Colorado doing what are you doing to secure polling places
Speaker 2: over the next twenty four hours.
Speaker 3: Colorado is a great election system. We make it easy
Speaker 3: to cast your ballot. Ballots went out three weeks ago
Speaker 3: in the mail. Most of them have been returned. If
Speaker 3: people lost their ballot or want to vote in person,
Speaker 3: they can. We have hundreds of voting centers across the state,
Speaker 3: so we want to make sure that if you have
Speaker 3: the right to vote legally, you're able to exercise that.
Speaker 3: I was just thanking election workers here at the Denver
Speaker 3: County Clerk's office. So appreciative of people who volunteer their
Speaker 3: time come in help make sure that signature of verification
Speaker 3: is done accurately. The counting has done accurately, volunteers from
Speaker 3: the Republican and Democratic Party. That's what it's all about.
Speaker 3: Look in Colorado, Kamala Harris as well ahead. She's going
Speaker 3: to win Colorado. We still have a hot congressional race
Speaker 3: here that could go either way. It'll be very important
Speaker 3: for the House of Representatives. Yadira Caraveo as the candidate.
Speaker 3: I've been working for this last weekend, but we want
Speaker 3: to make sure that every Colorado and every American knows
Speaker 3: that your voice is important, and and you could cast
Speaker 3: your ballot before the polls closed tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Well, as we consider a poll closing times, that doesn't
Speaker 4: necessarily mean that is the time in which we'll know
Speaker 4: who won any given state. Even if Colorado is called
Speaker 4: early governor, we know that might not be the case
Speaker 4: for other states across the country. Are you hearing anything
Speaker 4: from other surrogates with this campaign, other Democratic governors, and
Speaker 4: especially some of these battleground states about how long they
Speaker 4: expect this ultimately will take to figure out who won.
Speaker 3: Well, Look, Donald Trump and surrogates are already trying to
Speaker 3: undermine legitimacy of this election, and we need to make
Speaker 3: sure first and foremost we reassure the American people that
Speaker 3: your vote will be counted fairly and accurately. And of
Speaker 3: course there's a legal process to play out if it's close.
Speaker 3: But that's why your voice is so important. Your vote
Speaker 3: is your sacred right. Our forefathers gave their lives to
Speaker 3: protect that right to vote. It's important to use that
Speaker 3: right to make sure that we can finally turn the
Speaker 3: page on the divisive politics of the past and move forward.
Speaker 3: With President Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2: I want to explore the early vote a little bit
Speaker 2: more with you for a moment, Governor. We spoke earlier
Speaker 2: today with doctor Laura Brown, political side scientists and author.
Speaker 2: Here's what she had to say about what we're seeing
Speaker 2: in the demographics of those choosing to vote early in
Speaker 2: this election.
Speaker 1: When you look at the overall early vote data, we
Speaker 1: don't know who is actually voting for whom. But what
Speaker 1: we do know is who is turning out, and who's
Speaker 1: turning out are white women who are older, and many
Speaker 1: of them in suburbs. Because when you look at that data,
Speaker 1: you do see that there is a gender gap. You
Speaker 1: do see that it's suburban voters, and you do see
Speaker 1: that it's more senior voters than not.
Speaker 2: Governor, I see more than two million ballots have been
Speaker 2: returned in Colorado according to your Secretary of State. What
Speaker 2: are you learning so far? What does it lead you
Speaker 2: to believe about turnout in the end tomorrow.
Speaker 3: So first of all, you could talk to you know,
Speaker 3: five different data scientists and you get seven different responses
Speaker 3: about which demographic voting and who's winning, and you can
Speaker 3: see the different feeds of the different partisans on both
Speaker 3: sides in Colorado everybody's voting, so most of our ballots
Speaker 3: are in. People could, of course vote through election day.
Speaker 3: People are accustomed to voting early, Republicans, Democrats. It's what
Speaker 3: people do. We have a long ballot. We're a state
Speaker 3: where people decide important issues on the ballot. We have
Speaker 3: choice on the ballot, we have a same sex marriage
Speaker 3: on the ballot. So these are issues that people care
Speaker 3: about independent of the candidates. And they've already turned out
Speaker 3: in record numbers, and I'm sure people are going to
Speaker 3: continue to vote right through seven PM tomorrow, which is
Speaker 3: when our polls close here in Colorado.
Speaker 4: All right, Colorado's Democratic Governor Jared Poulas, surrogate for the
Speaker 4: Harris Walls campaign, thank you for joining us on this
Speaker 4: election eve.