1 00:00:00,033 --> 00:00:04,804 Captioning sponsored by WNET 2 00:00:04,804 --> 00:00:05,739 >> Sreenivasan: ON THIS EDITION 3 00:00:05,739 --> 00:00:08,208 FOR SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31: 4 00:00:08,208 --> 00:00:09,609 THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES HIT 5 00:00:09,609 --> 00:00:11,077 KEY SWING STATES IN THE FINAL 6 00:00:11,077 --> 00:00:13,313 WEEKEND BEFORE ELECTION DAY. 7 00:00:13,313 --> 00:00:14,147 THE BATTLEGROUND STATE OF 8 00:00:14,147 --> 00:00:15,849 NORTH CAROLINA: AT THE FOREFRONT 9 00:00:15,849 --> 00:00:17,984 OF A CHANGING CLIMATE. 10 00:00:17,984 --> 00:00:18,885 >> IKE FOR PRESIDENT, IKE 11 00:00:18,885 --> 00:00:19,652 FOR PRESIDENT. 12 00:00:19,652 --> 00:00:20,754 >> Sreenivasan: AND A LOOK AT 13 00:00:20,754 --> 00:00:22,389 POLITICAL ADS, IN THE MOST 14 00:00:22,389 --> 00:00:24,090 EXPENSIVE CAMPAIGN YEAR IN 15 00:00:24,090 --> 00:00:25,358 HISTORY. 16 00:00:25,358 --> 00:00:29,996 NEXT ON PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND. 17 00:00:29,996 --> 00:00:32,298 >> PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND 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AMERICA FINANCIAL 36 00:01:06,566 --> 00:01:08,835 GROUP, RETIREMENT SERVICES AND 37 00:01:08,835 --> 00:01:10,470 INVESTMENTS. 38 00:01:10,470 --> 00:01:12,038 ADDITIONAL SUPPORT HAS BEEN 39 00:01:12,038 --> 00:01:13,306 PROVIDED BY: 40 00:01:13,306 --> 00:01:16,209 CONSUMER CELLULAR. 41 00:01:16,209 --> 00:01:19,479 AND BY: 42 00:01:19,479 --> 00:01:21,014 AND BY THE CORPORATION FOR 43 00:01:21,014 --> 00:01:23,116 PUBLIC BROADCASTING, A PRIVATE 44 00:01:23,116 --> 00:01:24,651 CORPORATION FUNDED BY THE 45 00:01:24,651 --> 00:01:26,619 AMERICAN PEOPLE. 46 00:01:26,619 --> 00:01:27,787 AND BY CONTRIBUTIONS TO YOUR 47 00:01:27,787 --> 00:01:29,656 PBS STATION FROM VIEWERS LIKE 48 00:01:29,656 --> 00:01:30,423 YOU. 49 00:01:30,423 --> 00:01:32,692 THANK YOU. 50 00:01:32,692 --> 00:01:33,460 >> Sreenivasan: GOOD EVENING 51 00:01:33,460 --> 00:01:34,394 AND THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. 52 00:01:34,394 --> 00:01:36,062 WE ARE REPORTING THIS WEEKEND 53 00:01:36,062 --> 00:01:37,530 FROM NORTH CAROLINA, THE LAST 54 00:01:37,530 --> 00:01:39,032 STOP ON OUR "ROADS TO ELECTION 55 00:01:39,032 --> 00:01:41,067 2020" SERIES-- BUT NOT THE END 56 00:01:41,067 --> 00:01:43,136 OF OUR COVERAGE OF THE VOTE, THE 57 00:01:43,136 --> 00:01:44,971 VOTE COUNT, AND THE CANDIDATES 58 00:01:44,971 --> 00:01:46,873 ON THE BALLOTS IN EVERY STATE. 59 00:01:46,873 --> 00:01:47,907 PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND 60 00:01:47,907 --> 00:01:49,542 FORMER VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN, 61 00:01:49,542 --> 00:01:50,910 THEIR RUNNING MATES, AND MANY OF 62 00:01:50,910 --> 00:01:52,178 THEIR BEST-KNOWN POLITICAL 63 00:01:52,178 --> 00:01:53,847 SUPPORTERS ARE ON THE CAMPAIGN 64 00:01:53,847 --> 00:01:55,882 TRAIL IN THESE FINAL DAYS BEFORE 65 00:01:55,882 --> 00:01:57,851 VOTING ENDS ON TUESDAY. 66 00:01:57,851 --> 00:01:59,252 KEY EVENTS THIS WEEKEND ARE IN 67 00:01:59,252 --> 00:02:01,321 BATTLEGROUND STATES INCLUDING 68 00:02:01,321 --> 00:02:03,423 PENNSYLVANIA, MICHIGAN, FLORIDA, 69 00:02:03,423 --> 00:02:04,791 AND RIGHT HERE IN NORTH 70 00:02:04,791 --> 00:02:05,959 CAROLINA. 71 00:02:05,959 --> 00:02:07,360 WHILE THE SPEECHES TOUCH ON A 72 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:09,362 WIDE RANGE OF TOPICS, ONE OF THE 73 00:02:09,362 --> 00:02:11,397 ISSUES VOTERS AND VIEWERS SAY 74 00:02:11,397 --> 00:02:13,032 THEY WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT IS 75 00:02:13,032 --> 00:02:14,367 CLIMATE CHANGE. 76 00:02:14,367 --> 00:02:15,602 WE WILL HAVE AN IN-DEPTH REPORT 77 00:02:15,602 --> 00:02:16,936 ON THAT FROM HERE IN NORTH 78 00:02:16,936 --> 00:02:19,239 CAROLINA, ALONG WITH REPORTING 79 00:02:19,239 --> 00:02:20,840 ON THE BILLIONS SPENT ON 80 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:22,809 ADVERTISING THIS ELECTION YEAR, 81 00:02:22,809 --> 00:02:24,477 BOTH COMING UP RIGHT AFTER THE 82 00:02:24,477 --> 00:02:26,613 NEWS SUMMARY. 83 00:02:26,613 --> 00:02:29,616 ♪ FROM THE LAKES OF MINNESOTA, 84 00:02:29,616 --> 00:02:31,618 TO THE HILLS OF TENNESSEE ♪ 85 00:02:31,618 --> 00:02:32,619 >> Sreenivasan: IT'S THE FINAL 86 00:02:32,619 --> 00:02:33,653 WEEKEND PUSH IN THE 2020 87 00:02:33,653 --> 00:02:35,388 CAMPAIGN SEASON. 88 00:02:35,388 --> 00:02:36,523 PRESIDENT TRUMP PLANNED FOUR 89 00:02:36,523 --> 00:02:38,324 STOPS IN PENNSYLVANIA TODAY, 90 00:02:38,324 --> 00:02:39,559 STARTING IN BUCKS COUNTY, JUST 91 00:02:39,559 --> 00:02:40,827 NORTH OF PHILADELPHIA. 92 00:02:40,827 --> 00:02:42,395 THE KEYSTONE STATE WAS CRUCIAL 93 00:02:42,395 --> 00:02:44,230 TO THE PRESIDENT'S 2016 WIN, AND 94 00:02:44,230 --> 00:02:45,832 IS A FOCAL POINT FOR BOTH 95 00:02:45,832 --> 00:02:47,467 CAMPAIGNS. 96 00:02:47,467 --> 00:02:50,703 ♪ ♪ ♪ 97 00:02:50,703 --> 00:02:51,671 FORMER VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN 98 00:02:51,671 --> 00:02:53,039 CAMPAIGNED WITH FORMER PRESIDENT 99 00:02:53,039 --> 00:02:54,874 BARACK OBAMA IN MICHIGAN TODAY, 100 00:02:54,874 --> 00:02:56,809 AT A DRIVE-IN RALLY IN FLINT AND 101 00:02:56,809 --> 00:02:58,545 ANOTHER PLANNED FOR DETROIT. 102 00:02:58,545 --> 00:02:59,879 TOMORROW, BIDEN WILL BE IN 103 00:02:59,879 --> 00:03:01,047 PENNSYLVANIA, STARTING IN 104 00:03:01,047 --> 00:03:02,448 PHILADELPHIA FOR A "SOULS TO THE 105 00:03:02,448 --> 00:03:03,616 POLLS" EVENT. 106 00:03:03,616 --> 00:03:04,951 PRESIDENT TRUMP PLANS RALLIES IN 107 00:03:04,951 --> 00:03:06,853 FIVE STATES TOMORROW. 108 00:03:06,853 --> 00:03:08,421 WITH THREE DAYS LEFT TO ELECTION 109 00:03:08,421 --> 00:03:10,924 DAY, MORE THAN 90 MILLION EARLY 110 00:03:10,924 --> 00:03:13,359 VOTES HAVE BEEN CAST SO FAR. 111 00:03:13,359 --> 00:03:14,827 THAT'S NEARLY TWO-THIRDS THE 112 00:03:14,827 --> 00:03:16,396 BALLOTS CAST IN THE 2016 113 00:03:16,396 --> 00:03:18,898 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. 114 00:03:18,898 --> 00:03:20,400 THE CORONAVIRUS CONTINUES TO 115 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:21,968 SPREAD RAPIDLY IN MANY STATES 116 00:03:21,968 --> 00:03:22,969 THIS WEEKEND. 117 00:03:22,969 --> 00:03:24,470 YESTERDAY, THE NATION RECORDED 118 00:03:24,470 --> 00:03:26,673 MORE THAN 99,000 NEW CASES, 119 00:03:26,673 --> 00:03:27,607 ACCORDING TO THE "NEW YORK 120 00:03:27,607 --> 00:03:28,474 TIMES." 121 00:03:28,474 --> 00:03:29,976 THAT'S THE HIGHEST DAILY NUMBER 122 00:03:29,976 --> 00:03:31,811 SINCE THE PANDEMIC BEGAN. 123 00:03:31,811 --> 00:03:33,846 THE "TIMES" DATABASE SHOWS 14 124 00:03:33,846 --> 00:03:36,049 STATES SET NEW DAILY CASE 125 00:03:36,049 --> 00:03:37,650 RECORDS, AND THREE-- TENNESSEE, 126 00:03:37,650 --> 00:03:39,252 MONTANA, AND NEW MEXICO-- 127 00:03:39,252 --> 00:03:40,787 RECORDED NEW RECORD-HIGH NUMBERS 128 00:03:40,787 --> 00:03:43,223 OF DEATHS FROM COVID-19. 129 00:03:43,223 --> 00:03:44,290 AS OF THIS MORNING, JOHNS 130 00:03:44,290 --> 00:03:45,792 HOPKINS UNIVERSITY'S CORONAVIRUS 131 00:03:45,792 --> 00:03:47,393 RESOURCE CENTER REPORTS THE 132 00:03:47,393 --> 00:03:48,995 UNITED STATES HAS HAD MORE 133 00:03:48,995 --> 00:03:50,530 THAN NINE MILLION CONFIRMED 134 00:03:50,530 --> 00:03:51,664 CASES OF THE VIRUS DURING THE 135 00:03:51,664 --> 00:03:54,000 PANDEMIC, ONE-FIFTH OF THE MORE 136 00:03:54,000 --> 00:04:00,707 THAN 45 MILLION CASES GLOBALLY. 137 00:04:00,707 --> 00:04:02,041 RESCUE WORKERS IN THE TURKISH 138 00:04:02,041 --> 00:04:03,676 CITY OF IZMIR PULLED THREE WOMEN 139 00:04:03,676 --> 00:04:05,245 ALIVE FROM UNDER THE RUBBLE OF A 140 00:04:05,245 --> 00:04:07,013 COLLAPSED BUILDING TODAY, AS THE 141 00:04:07,013 --> 00:04:08,548 SEARCH CONTINUES FOR SURVIVORS 142 00:04:08,548 --> 00:04:10,016 FOLLOWING YESTERDAY'S POWERFUL 143 00:04:10,016 --> 00:04:11,884 EARTHQUAKE IN THE AEGEAN SEA. 144 00:04:11,884 --> 00:04:13,253 THE EARTHQUAKE TOPPLED SEVERAL 145 00:04:13,253 --> 00:04:15,021 BUILDINGS AND AT LEAST 37 PEOPLE 146 00:04:15,021 --> 00:04:17,223 WERE KILLED AND 800 INJURED 147 00:04:17,223 --> 00:04:19,058 ALONG TURKEY'S WESTERN COAST. 148 00:04:19,058 --> 00:04:20,560 THE QUAKE, WHICH WAS ALSO FELT 149 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:22,095 IN GREECE, LEFT TWO PEOPLE DEAD 150 00:04:22,095 --> 00:04:24,330 ON THE ISLAND OF SAMOS. 151 00:04:24,330 --> 00:04:25,698 TURKEY'S DISASTER AGENCY SAID 152 00:04:25,698 --> 00:04:27,367 TODAY THE AREA HAS EXPERIENCED 153 00:04:27,367 --> 00:04:31,037 MORE THAN 450 AFTERSHOCKS. 154 00:04:31,037 --> 00:04:34,107 >> I ADMIRE YOUR LUCK, MR.... 155 00:04:34,107 --> 00:04:36,976 >> BOND. 156 00:04:36,976 --> 00:04:38,244 JAMES BOND. 157 00:04:38,244 --> 00:04:39,045 >> Sreenivasan: SEAN CONNERY, 158 00:04:39,045 --> 00:04:40,146 THE SCOTTISH ACTOR BEST KNOWN 159 00:04:40,146 --> 00:04:41,281 FOR PLAYING THE SMOOTH-TALKING 160 00:04:41,281 --> 00:04:43,416 CHARACTER JAMES BOND, HAS DIED. 161 00:04:43,416 --> 00:04:45,218 BORN IN 1930 IN EDINBURGH, 162 00:04:45,218 --> 00:04:46,386 SCOTLAND, CONNERY WENT ON TO 163 00:04:46,386 --> 00:04:48,054 WORK A SERIES OF JOBS, INCLUDING 164 00:04:48,054 --> 00:04:50,690 A COFFIN POLISHER, MILKMAN AND 165 00:04:50,690 --> 00:04:52,425 BODY BUILDER, BEFORE LANDING HIS 166 00:04:52,425 --> 00:04:53,626 BREAKOUT ACTING ROLE AS AN 167 00:04:53,626 --> 00:04:55,328 INTERNATIONAL SPY. 168 00:04:55,328 --> 00:04:56,496 HE LIT THE SILVER SCREEN FOR 169 00:04:56,496 --> 00:04:58,131 MORE THAN FOUR DECADES, STARRING 170 00:04:58,131 --> 00:05:00,199 IN SEVEN JAMES BOND MOVIES, AND 171 00:05:00,199 --> 00:05:01,601 IN FILMS INCLUDING "INDIANA 172 00:05:01,601 --> 00:05:03,236 JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE" AND 173 00:05:03,236 --> 00:05:05,171 "THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER." 174 00:05:05,171 --> 00:05:07,507 IN 1987, HE WON AN ACADEMY AWARD 175 00:05:07,507 --> 00:05:08,708 FOR HIS PORTRAYAL OF A CHICAGO 176 00:05:08,708 --> 00:05:09,842 COP IN THE FILM "THE 177 00:05:09,842 --> 00:05:11,144 UNTOUCHABLES," AND, 178 00:05:11,144 --> 00:05:12,145 IN RECOGNITION FOR HIS 179 00:05:12,145 --> 00:05:13,813 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ARTS, WAS 180 00:05:13,813 --> 00:05:15,081 KNIGHTED BY BRITAIN'S QUEEN 181 00:05:15,081 --> 00:05:17,016 ELIZABETH IN 2000. 182 00:05:17,016 --> 00:05:18,084 CONNERY'S SON SAID HIS FATHER 183 00:05:18,084 --> 00:05:19,385 DIED PEACEFULLY IN HIS HOME IN 184 00:05:19,385 --> 00:05:20,353 THE BAHAMAS. 185 00:05:20,353 --> 00:05:25,124 SEAN CONNERY WAS 90 YEARS OLD. 186 00:05:25,124 --> 00:05:25,925 >> Sreenivasan: FOR MORE 187 00:05:25,925 --> 00:05:27,026 ELECTION COVERAGE AND THE LATEST 188 00:05:27,026 --> 00:05:28,661 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 189 00:05:28,661 --> 00:05:33,299 VISIT www.pbs.org/newshour. 190 00:05:33,299 --> 00:05:34,300 >> Sreenivasan: EARLIER THIS 191 00:05:34,300 --> 00:05:35,802 FALL, WE ASKED YOU WHAT ISSUES 192 00:05:35,802 --> 00:05:37,403 WE SHOULD BE FOCUSING ON THIS 193 00:05:37,403 --> 00:05:38,638 ELECTION SEASON. 194 00:05:38,638 --> 00:05:40,506 THE ANSWER OVERWHELMINGLY WAS 195 00:05:40,506 --> 00:05:42,108 THAT YOU WANTED MORE COVERAGE OF 196 00:05:42,108 --> 00:05:43,476 CLIMATE CHANGE. 197 00:05:43,476 --> 00:05:45,211 SO, ON THIS WEEKEND BEFORE 198 00:05:45,211 --> 00:05:46,379 ELECTION DAY, WE'RE REPORTING 199 00:05:46,379 --> 00:05:47,980 FROM NORTH CAROLINA, A SWING 200 00:05:47,980 --> 00:05:49,882 STATE WITH CONSEQUENTIAL RACES 201 00:05:49,882 --> 00:05:51,851 UP AND DOWN THE BALLOT, BUT ALSO 202 00:05:51,851 --> 00:05:53,486 A STATE THAT, HAVING BEEN 203 00:05:53,486 --> 00:05:54,987 BATTERED BY MULTIPLE HURRICANES 204 00:05:54,987 --> 00:05:57,190 IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS, HAS BEEN 205 00:05:57,190 --> 00:05:58,958 AT THE FOREFRONT OF EXPERIENCING 206 00:05:58,958 --> 00:06:00,626 THE CHANGING CLIMATE. 207 00:06:00,626 --> 00:06:01,894 THIS STORY IS PART OF OUR 208 00:06:01,894 --> 00:06:03,663 ONGOING SERIES "PERIL AND 209 00:06:03,663 --> 00:06:04,897 PROMISE: THE CHALLENGE OF 210 00:06:04,897 --> 00:06:07,834 CLIMATE CHANGE." 211 00:06:07,834 --> 00:06:08,868 WHEN HURRICANE FLORENCE MADE 212 00:06:08,868 --> 00:06:10,236 LANDFALL NEAR WILMINGTON IN 213 00:06:10,236 --> 00:06:13,106 SEPTEMBER OF 2018, IT WAS ONLY 214 00:06:13,106 --> 00:06:15,208 A CATEGORY ONE STORM. 215 00:06:15,208 --> 00:06:16,476 BUT WHAT FLORENCE LACKED IN 216 00:06:16,476 --> 00:06:18,010 SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS, IT MADE 217 00:06:18,010 --> 00:06:20,380 UP FOR IN RAIN. 218 00:06:20,380 --> 00:06:22,482 >> IT JUST RAINED AND IT RAINED 219 00:06:22,482 --> 00:06:23,750 AND IT BLEW AND IT RAINED. 220 00:06:23,750 --> 00:06:26,085 BUT ALL THAT WHILE, YOU HAVE TO 221 00:06:26,085 --> 00:06:27,286 TRY TO MAKE SURE YOUR ANIMALS 222 00:06:27,286 --> 00:06:28,721 ARE SAFE. 223 00:06:28,721 --> 00:06:29,789 >> Sreenivasan: GINA MARASCO IS 224 00:06:29,789 --> 00:06:31,057 THE OWNER OF HUMPHREY FARMS, A 225 00:06:31,057 --> 00:06:33,359 500-ACRE FARM ABOUT 30 MILES 226 00:06:33,359 --> 00:06:35,361 FROM THE COAST IN PENDER COUNTY. 227 00:06:35,361 --> 00:06:37,096 AFTER AN ESTIMATED THREE FEET OF 228 00:06:37,096 --> 00:06:38,965 RAIN OVER THREE DAYS, SHE AND 229 00:06:38,965 --> 00:06:40,133 HER HUSBAND, ROBERT, NEEDED A 230 00:06:40,133 --> 00:06:41,267 CANOE TO CHECK ON THEIR 231 00:06:41,267 --> 00:06:42,869 LOW-LYING HOG HOUSES. 232 00:06:42,869 --> 00:06:45,538 >> FLORENCE, YOU STINK! 233 00:06:45,538 --> 00:06:47,473 WE WENT BY THE HOUSES SO WE 234 00:06:47,473 --> 00:06:48,808 COULD SEE THE ANIMALS AND WE 235 00:06:48,808 --> 00:06:50,576 COULD SEE THAT THEY WERE ALIVE, 236 00:06:50,576 --> 00:06:52,111 WHICH WAS A BEAUTIFUL THING. 237 00:06:52,111 --> 00:06:53,446 BUT WE COULDN'T EVEN TURN OFF 238 00:06:53,446 --> 00:06:54,514 THE POWER. 239 00:06:54,514 --> 00:06:56,182 SO WE'RE JUST, "PLEASE LET 240 00:06:56,182 --> 00:06:57,483 EVERYTHING BE OKAY," 241 00:06:57,483 --> 00:06:58,484 BECAUSE THERE WAS NOTHING WE 242 00:06:58,484 --> 00:06:59,786 COULD DO. 243 00:06:59,786 --> 00:07:01,020 >> Sreenivasan: IN 2018, 244 00:07:01,020 --> 00:07:02,555 HUMPHREY FARM HAD ABOUT 7,500 245 00:07:02,555 --> 00:07:03,623 HOGS. 246 00:07:03,623 --> 00:07:05,224 WHILE MARASCO SAYS THEIR WELFARE 247 00:07:05,224 --> 00:07:06,959 WAS IMPORTANT, SHE WAS ALSO 248 00:07:06,959 --> 00:07:08,361 WORRIED ABOUT THE FARM'S EIGHT- 249 00:07:08,361 --> 00:07:10,997 ACRE HOG LAGOON. 250 00:07:10,997 --> 00:07:11,998 THAT'S WHERE WASTE FROM THE PIGS 251 00:07:11,998 --> 00:07:13,032 IS STORED. 252 00:07:13,032 --> 00:07:14,200 RUNOFF FROM THE LAGOON, WHICH 253 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:15,368 HAS HIGH LEVELS OF AMMONIA AND 254 00:07:15,368 --> 00:07:18,204 NITRATES, CAN HARM AQUATIC LIFE. 255 00:07:18,204 --> 00:07:20,006 >> 36 INCHES OF RAIN BROUGHT US 256 00:07:20,006 --> 00:07:21,941 OVER THE TOP. 257 00:07:21,941 --> 00:07:24,076 THANKFULLY, THOUGH, THE AMOUNT 258 00:07:24,076 --> 00:07:26,612 OF WATER WAS SO GREAT THAT THE 259 00:07:26,612 --> 00:07:32,785 DILUTION WAS ENOUGH TO KEEP IT 260 00:07:32,785 --> 00:07:35,321 FROM BEING A TOXIC SITUATION. 261 00:07:35,321 --> 00:07:36,722 >> Sreenivasan: THE HIGH WATERS 262 00:07:36,722 --> 00:07:38,224 FROM FLORENCE DAMAGED OR OVER 263 00:07:38,224 --> 00:07:40,526 TOPPED NEARLY 50 HOG LAGOONS, A 264 00:07:40,526 --> 00:07:41,828 RELATIVELY SMALL FRACTION OF THE 265 00:07:41,828 --> 00:07:43,362 STATE'S 3,000. 266 00:07:43,362 --> 00:07:44,897 BUT THE MASSIVE AMOUNT OF RAIN 267 00:07:44,897 --> 00:07:46,799 AFFECTED HUGE SWATHS OF NORTH 268 00:07:46,799 --> 00:07:48,134 CAROLINA. 269 00:07:48,134 --> 00:07:49,368 >> MY NUMBER ONE CONCERN IS 270 00:07:49,368 --> 00:07:50,703 FLOODING ACROSS THE ENTIRE 271 00:07:50,703 --> 00:07:51,871 STATE. 272 00:07:51,871 --> 00:07:52,972 >> Sreenivasan: KATHIE DELLO IS 273 00:07:52,972 --> 00:07:54,040 THE STATE CLIMATOLOGIST FOR 274 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:55,074 NORTH CAROLINA. 275 00:07:55,074 --> 00:07:56,342 SHE'S ALSO ONE OF THE AUTHORS OF 276 00:07:56,342 --> 00:07:57,610 THE STATE'S CLIMATE SCIENCE 277 00:07:57,610 --> 00:07:59,178 REPORT, AN INDEPENDENT 278 00:07:59,178 --> 00:08:00,880 SCIENTIFIC ASSESSMENT RELEASED 279 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:02,949 THIS YEAR ON PAST CLIMATE 280 00:08:02,949 --> 00:08:04,650 TRENDS, AND HOW CLIMATE CHANGE 281 00:08:04,650 --> 00:08:06,519 WILL AFFECT THE STATE AS HUMANS 282 00:08:06,519 --> 00:08:08,054 CONTINUE TO EMIT GREENHOUSE 283 00:08:08,054 --> 00:08:09,489 GASSES. 284 00:08:09,489 --> 00:08:10,990 THE REPORT FINDS THAT NORTH 285 00:08:10,990 --> 00:08:12,558 CAROLINA HAS ALREADY WARMED ONE 286 00:08:12,558 --> 00:08:14,093 DEGREE FAHRENHEIT OVER THE LAST 287 00:08:14,093 --> 00:08:17,163 120 YEARS, AND THAT HEAVY RAINS 288 00:08:17,163 --> 00:08:18,764 FROM HURRICANES AND OTHER 289 00:08:18,764 --> 00:08:20,166 WEATHER SYSTEMS WILL BECOME MORE 290 00:08:20,166 --> 00:08:21,701 FREQUENT AND INTENSE. 291 00:08:21,701 --> 00:08:23,369 THAT'S ALREADY BEING FELT HERE 292 00:08:23,369 --> 00:08:25,071 BY NORTH CAROLINIANS. 293 00:08:25,071 --> 00:08:26,539 >> FOLKS EXPERIENCE THREE BIG 294 00:08:26,539 --> 00:08:29,442 HURRICANES IN FOUR YEARS AND 295 00:08:29,442 --> 00:08:31,477 TRULY SAID, "SOMETHING'S GOING 296 00:08:31,477 --> 00:08:33,145 ON HERE. 297 00:08:33,145 --> 00:08:34,714 THIS ISN'T THE NORTH CAROLINA 298 00:08:34,714 --> 00:08:35,915 THAT I GREW UP IN. 299 00:08:35,915 --> 00:08:37,683 WE DON'T SEE HURRICANES LIKE 300 00:08:37,683 --> 00:08:38,918 THIS WITH THAT MUCH RAIN. 301 00:08:38,918 --> 00:08:39,886 WE DON'T SEE FLOODING LIKE 302 00:08:39,886 --> 00:08:41,120 THIS." 303 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:42,788 PEOPLE HAVE LIVED EXPERIENCES 304 00:08:42,788 --> 00:08:43,923 WITH THE CLIMATE AND THEY'RE 305 00:08:43,923 --> 00:08:46,192 NOW SAYING, "OKAY, CLIMATE 306 00:08:46,192 --> 00:08:48,261 CHANGE IS HERE AND IT'S REAL." 307 00:08:48,261 --> 00:08:49,595 >> I CAN TRUTHFULLY SAY IN MY 308 00:08:49,595 --> 00:08:51,063 LIFETIME, I'VE NEVER SEEN 309 00:08:51,063 --> 00:08:53,299 ANYTHING LIKE THE DEVASTATION 310 00:08:53,299 --> 00:08:55,001 THAT FLORENCE CAUSED. 311 00:08:55,001 --> 00:08:56,435 IT WAS A CATASTROPHIC EVENT, 312 00:08:56,435 --> 00:08:58,037 THERE'S NO QUESTION. 313 00:08:58,037 --> 00:08:59,138 >> Sreenivasan: REPUBLICAN STEVE 314 00:08:59,138 --> 00:09:00,239 TROXLER IS NORTH CAROLINA'S 315 00:09:00,239 --> 00:09:01,407 AGRICULTURE COMMISSIONER, AND 316 00:09:01,407 --> 00:09:02,575 HE'S RUNNING FOR HIS FIFTH 317 00:09:02,575 --> 00:09:04,577 CONSECUTIVE FOUR-YEAR TERM, 318 00:09:04,577 --> 00:09:06,145 OVERSEEING THE STATE'S $92 319 00:09:06,145 --> 00:09:08,648 BILLION AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY. 320 00:09:08,648 --> 00:09:10,449 AFTER FLORENCE, HIS OFFICE 321 00:09:10,449 --> 00:09:12,151 HELPED DISTRIBUTE MORE THAN $230 322 00:09:12,151 --> 00:09:14,320 MILLION IN AID TO FARMERS. 323 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:15,821 HE SAYS COMPARED TO HURRICANE 324 00:09:15,821 --> 00:09:17,223 FLOYD, WHICH HIT NORTH CAROLINA 325 00:09:17,223 --> 00:09:19,325 IN 1999, THE STATE'S AGRICULTURE 326 00:09:19,325 --> 00:09:21,427 INDUSTRY WAS BETTER PREPARED. 327 00:09:21,427 --> 00:09:22,828 >> DURING HURRICANE FLOYD, WE 328 00:09:22,828 --> 00:09:25,398 LOST 28,000 HOGS IN NORTH 329 00:09:25,398 --> 00:09:27,099 CAROLINA TO DROWNING. 330 00:09:27,099 --> 00:09:28,968 DURING HURRICANE FLORENCE, WHICH 331 00:09:28,968 --> 00:09:31,103 WAS, YOU KNOW, MUCH, MUCH WORSE 332 00:09:31,103 --> 00:09:34,574 THAN THAT, WE LOST ABOUT 5,000. 333 00:09:34,574 --> 00:09:35,942 >> Sreenivasan: SINCE 1999, THE 334 00:09:35,942 --> 00:09:36,976 AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT HAS ALSO 335 00:09:36,976 --> 00:09:39,278 RUN A VOLUNTARY BUYOUT PROGRAM 336 00:09:39,278 --> 00:09:40,613 FOR HOG FARMS LOCATED IN 337 00:09:40,613 --> 00:09:42,949 100-YEAR FLOODPLAINS. 338 00:09:42,949 --> 00:09:44,517 THE STATE SELECTS THE MOST 339 00:09:44,517 --> 00:09:46,385 AT-RISK FARMS FOR A ONE-TIME 340 00:09:46,385 --> 00:09:48,254 PAYMENT THAT CANNOT EXCEED THE 341 00:09:48,254 --> 00:09:50,156 VALUE OF THE OPERATION. 342 00:09:50,156 --> 00:09:52,191 IN EXCHANGE, THE FARMER AGREES 343 00:09:52,191 --> 00:09:53,626 TO END CONCENTRATED ANIMAL 344 00:09:53,626 --> 00:09:54,994 FEEDING OPERATIONS. 345 00:09:54,994 --> 00:09:56,596 43 HOG FARMERS HAVE 346 00:09:56,596 --> 00:09:57,930 PARTICIPATED. 347 00:09:57,930 --> 00:09:59,966 AND AFTER FLORENCE IN 2018, THE 348 00:09:59,966 --> 00:10:01,500 AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT OPENED UP 349 00:10:01,500 --> 00:10:02,768 THE PROGRAM AGAIN FOR 350 00:10:02,768 --> 00:10:04,303 APPLICATIONS. 351 00:10:04,303 --> 00:10:05,605 BUT SINCE THE PROGRAM STARTED 352 00:10:05,605 --> 00:10:07,873 OVER 20 YEARS AGO, MORE THAN 100 353 00:10:07,873 --> 00:10:09,075 FARMS THAT HAVE WANTED TO 354 00:10:09,075 --> 00:10:10,209 PARTICIPATE HAVE BEEN TURNED 355 00:10:10,209 --> 00:10:11,611 AWAY. 356 00:10:11,611 --> 00:10:12,979 >> THERE HAVE NOT BEEN THE 357 00:10:12,979 --> 00:10:15,081 RESOURCES AVAILABLE, YET, BUT 358 00:10:15,081 --> 00:10:16,115 YOU KNOW, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 359 00:10:16,115 --> 00:10:17,516 MILLIONS AND MILLIONS AND 360 00:10:17,516 --> 00:10:18,851 MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO BE ABLE 361 00:10:18,851 --> 00:10:20,886 TO DO THIS, ESPECIALLY WITH THE 362 00:10:20,886 --> 00:10:23,222 VALUE OF AGRICULTURAL LAND AND 363 00:10:23,222 --> 00:10:25,191 OPERATIONS TODAY. 364 00:10:25,191 --> 00:10:27,093 >> IT LEVELED THIS HOUSE PRETTY 365 00:10:27,093 --> 00:10:29,161 GOOD, AS YOU CAN SEE. 366 00:10:29,161 --> 00:10:30,329 >> Sreenivasan: GINA MARASCO 367 00:10:30,329 --> 00:10:31,697 APPLIED FOR THE BUYOUT PROGRAM, 368 00:10:31,697 --> 00:10:33,232 BUT HER FARM WAS NOT CONSIDERED 369 00:10:33,232 --> 00:10:35,167 ONE OF THE MOST AT-RISK, SO 370 00:10:35,167 --> 00:10:37,570 NORTH CAROLINA WON'T PAY. 371 00:10:37,570 --> 00:10:40,006 >> WE'RE IN GROUP B AND THEY'RE 372 00:10:40,006 --> 00:10:41,173 LOOKING FOR THOSE THAT ARE IN 373 00:10:41,173 --> 00:10:43,175 GROUP A, WHICH WAS VERY 374 00:10:43,175 --> 00:10:45,645 DISHEARTENING. 375 00:10:45,645 --> 00:10:48,147 BUT WE DON'T HAVE ANY CONTROL 376 00:10:48,147 --> 00:10:49,181 OVER IT. 377 00:10:49,181 --> 00:10:50,950 ELEVATIONS CHANGE... 378 00:10:50,950 --> 00:10:52,218 >> Sreenivasan: BUT EVEN WITHOUT 379 00:10:52,218 --> 00:10:53,386 THE BUYOUT, MARASCO DECIDED TO 380 00:10:53,386 --> 00:10:54,420 END THE HOG OPERATION THAT HER 381 00:10:54,420 --> 00:10:55,688 FATHER STARTED MORE THAN 50 382 00:10:55,688 --> 00:10:56,889 YEARS AGO. 383 00:10:56,889 --> 00:10:57,957 >> IT WAS A DECISION MADE WITH A 384 00:10:57,957 --> 00:11:01,160 VERY HEAVY HEART BECAUSE, "GOSH, 385 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:02,595 DAD, WE'RE GOING TO STOP DOING 386 00:11:02,595 --> 00:11:03,996 WHAT YOU EXPECTED US ALL TO DO 387 00:11:03,996 --> 00:11:05,131 INTO PERPETUITY. 388 00:11:05,131 --> 00:11:08,034 I'M SORRY, YOU KNOW." 389 00:11:08,034 --> 00:11:11,570 BUT AT THE SAME TIME, WE CAN'T 390 00:11:11,570 --> 00:11:14,106 AFFORD TO, JUST TO BE VERY 391 00:11:14,106 --> 00:11:16,042 HONEST WITH YOU, WE JUST 392 00:11:16,042 --> 00:11:17,410 COULDN'T AFFORD THE REBUILDING 393 00:11:17,410 --> 00:11:18,711 PROCESS. 394 00:11:18,711 --> 00:11:20,046 AND IT WAS SAD, YOU KNOW, 395 00:11:20,046 --> 00:11:23,549 BECAUSE MY DAD WAS THE HOG MAN 396 00:11:23,549 --> 00:11:25,651 AND I WAS THE HOG FARMER'S 397 00:11:25,651 --> 00:11:27,153 DAUGHTER. 398 00:11:27,153 --> 00:11:28,788 >> IT'S OUR CHILDREN WHO HAVE TO 399 00:11:28,788 --> 00:11:29,922 LIVE WITH THE BRUNT OF OUR 400 00:11:29,922 --> 00:11:30,956 INACTION IN ADDRESSING CLIMATE 401 00:11:30,956 --> 00:11:32,224 CHANGE, UNLESS WE BEGIN TO ELECT 402 00:11:32,224 --> 00:11:34,093 LEADERS WHO FROM DAY ONE ARE 403 00:11:34,093 --> 00:11:35,494 UNAPOLOGETIC IN THEIR COMMITMENT 404 00:11:35,494 --> 00:11:36,662 TO ADDRESSING THE CLIMATE CRISIS 405 00:11:36,662 --> 00:11:37,463 HEAD ON. 406 00:11:37,463 --> 00:11:38,798 HEY, HOW ARE YOU? 407 00:11:38,798 --> 00:11:40,032 >> Sreenivasan: JENNA WADSWORTH 408 00:11:40,032 --> 00:11:40,966 IS A DEMOCRAT RUNNING TO BE 409 00:11:40,966 --> 00:11:42,034 NORTH CAROLINA'S COMMISSIONER OF 410 00:11:42,034 --> 00:11:43,069 AGRICULTURE. 411 00:11:43,069 --> 00:11:44,437 >> SO I ACTUALLY GREW UP ON A 412 00:11:44,437 --> 00:11:45,938 FAMILY FARM NOT FAR FROM HERE. 413 00:11:45,938 --> 00:11:47,106 >> Sreenivasan: FOR THE LAST TEN 414 00:11:47,106 --> 00:11:48,541 YEARS, WADSWORTH HAS BEEN ON THE 415 00:11:48,541 --> 00:11:49,842 WAKE COUNTY SOIL AND WATER 416 00:11:49,842 --> 00:11:51,210 CONSERVATION DISTRICT BOARD OF 417 00:11:51,210 --> 00:11:52,344 SUPERVISORS. 418 00:11:52,344 --> 00:11:53,679 AND SHE'S MADE CLIMATE CHANGE 419 00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:55,181 ACTION FRONT AND CENTER IN HER 420 00:11:55,181 --> 00:11:56,782 CAMPAIGN. 421 00:11:56,782 --> 00:11:57,950 >> I'VE LOOKED AROUND AND I SEE 422 00:11:57,950 --> 00:11:59,251 THAT THE ROOT CAUSE OF SO MANY 423 00:11:59,251 --> 00:12:00,386 OF THE ISSUES THAT OUR FARMERS 424 00:12:00,386 --> 00:12:02,555 ARE FACING DEALS WITH CLIMATE 425 00:12:02,555 --> 00:12:03,823 CHANGE OR STEMS FROM CLIMATE 426 00:12:03,823 --> 00:12:05,925 CHANGE, BE IT CHANGING HARVEST 427 00:12:05,925 --> 00:12:07,993 DATES, CHANGING YIELDS, 428 00:12:07,993 --> 00:12:09,628 UNPREDICTABLE YIELDS, KNOWING 429 00:12:09,628 --> 00:12:10,830 THAT THERE ARE SEVERE WEATHER 430 00:12:10,830 --> 00:12:12,064 EVENTS. 431 00:12:12,064 --> 00:12:13,132 YOU KNOW, STORMS ARE GOING TO 432 00:12:13,132 --> 00:12:14,166 GROW MORE INTENSE AND MORE 433 00:12:14,166 --> 00:12:15,568 FREQUENT OVER THE COMING YEARS. 434 00:12:15,568 --> 00:12:16,702 >> Sreenivasan: WADSWORTH HAS 435 00:12:16,702 --> 00:12:17,803 BEEN ENDORSED BY THE SUNRISE 436 00:12:17,803 --> 00:12:18,838 MOVEMENT, THE YOUTH-LED CLIMATE 437 00:12:18,838 --> 00:12:20,239 CHANGE ACTIVIST GROUP. 438 00:12:20,239 --> 00:12:21,407 SHE HAS ALSO SIGNED ONTO A 439 00:12:21,407 --> 00:12:23,109 PLEDGE NOT TO TAKE ANY MONEY 440 00:12:23,109 --> 00:12:24,376 FROM THE STATE'S TWO ELECTRIC 441 00:12:24,376 --> 00:12:26,846 UTILITIES, DUKE AND DOMINION, 442 00:12:26,846 --> 00:12:28,814 AND TO NOT SUPPORT ANY NEW 443 00:12:28,814 --> 00:12:30,816 FOSSIL FUEL INFRASTRUCTURE. 444 00:12:30,816 --> 00:12:33,452 >> MY OPPONENT DIFFERS WITH, 445 00:12:33,452 --> 00:12:34,887 DIFFERS WITH ME WHEN IT COMES TO 446 00:12:34,887 --> 00:12:36,055 UNDERSTANDING THAT CLIMATE 447 00:12:36,055 --> 00:12:37,156 CHANGE IS REAL AND IT'S AN 448 00:12:37,156 --> 00:12:38,324 URGENT PRIORITY THAT WE HAVE TO 449 00:12:38,324 --> 00:12:40,092 ADDRESS IN ORDER TO ENSURE A 450 00:12:40,092 --> 00:12:42,728 LONG-TERM FUTURE IN AGRICULTURE. 451 00:12:42,728 --> 00:12:43,796 >> Sreenivasan: TROXLER 452 00:12:43,796 --> 00:12:44,864 ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE CLIMATE 453 00:12:44,864 --> 00:12:45,965 HAS CHANGED, AND SAYS THAT 454 00:12:45,965 --> 00:12:47,933 FARMERS ARE ALREADY DOING A LOT. 455 00:12:47,933 --> 00:12:50,269 >> YOU KNOW, I WOULD ASK, WHAT 456 00:12:50,269 --> 00:12:52,171 MORE CAN AGRICULTURE DO RIGHT 457 00:12:52,171 --> 00:12:53,939 NOW THAN THEY'RE DOING AS FAR AS 458 00:12:53,939 --> 00:12:55,274 CLIMATE CHANGE? 459 00:12:55,274 --> 00:12:56,542 WE'RE THE ONES WHO PLANT THE 460 00:12:56,542 --> 00:12:57,743 GREEN CROPS THAT SEQUESTER 461 00:12:57,743 --> 00:12:58,677 CARBON. 462 00:12:58,677 --> 00:13:00,412 WE'RE THE ONES THAT PLANT TREES 463 00:13:00,412 --> 00:13:02,148 THAT SEQUESTER CARBON. 464 00:13:02,148 --> 00:13:04,316 SO WE ARE GOING TO LOOK AFTER 465 00:13:04,316 --> 00:13:06,185 THE LAND AND THE ENVIRONMENT 466 00:13:06,185 --> 00:13:07,953 BECAUSE WE FARM OUTSIDE AND WE 467 00:13:07,953 --> 00:13:09,388 DEPEND ON IT. 468 00:13:09,388 --> 00:13:10,556 >> Sreenivasan: TROXLER ALSO 469 00:13:10,556 --> 00:13:11,624 WARNS THAT ADDRESSING CLIMATE 470 00:13:11,624 --> 00:13:12,725 CHANGE CAN'T COME AT THE EXPENSE 471 00:13:12,725 --> 00:13:14,326 OF FARMS SURVIVING. 472 00:13:14,326 --> 00:13:16,529 >> ANY TIME THAT WE CAN DO 473 00:13:16,529 --> 00:13:18,030 ANYTHING THAT'S GOING TO HELP 474 00:13:18,030 --> 00:13:20,366 LONG TERM, WE'RE GOING TO DO IT. 475 00:13:20,366 --> 00:13:22,868 BUT WITH THE CAVEAT THAT FARMERS 476 00:13:22,868 --> 00:13:24,870 HAVE GOT TO REMAIN IN BUSINESS 477 00:13:24,870 --> 00:13:26,205 IF WE'RE GOING TO EAT. 478 00:13:26,205 --> 00:13:27,706 >> IF WE DO NOT ADDRESS CLIMATE 479 00:13:27,706 --> 00:13:29,675 CHANGE, THERE WON'T BE A FUTURE 480 00:13:29,675 --> 00:13:31,577 IN AGRICULTURE, SO WE HAVE TO 481 00:13:31,577 --> 00:13:33,045 MAKE MEANINGFUL ACTION IN 482 00:13:33,045 --> 00:13:34,280 ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE, 483 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:35,548 MAKING SURE THAT FARMERS HAVE 484 00:13:35,548 --> 00:13:36,749 THE TOOLS NECESSARY IN ORDER TO 485 00:13:36,749 --> 00:13:37,750 MOVE INTO SUSTAINABLE, 486 00:13:37,750 --> 00:13:39,118 REGENERATIVE, AND ORGANIC 487 00:13:39,118 --> 00:13:40,686 PRACTICES, PRACTICES THAT 488 00:13:40,686 --> 00:13:42,021 PRIORITIZE SOIL HEALTH AND 489 00:13:42,021 --> 00:13:43,989 CONSERVATION AND ALLOW FOR THEM 490 00:13:43,989 --> 00:13:46,192 TO BE VIABLE IN THE LONG TERM. 491 00:13:46,192 --> 00:13:47,326 >> Sreenivasan: FOR HUMPHREY 492 00:13:47,326 --> 00:13:48,994 FARMS, LONG-TERM VIABILITY MEANS 493 00:13:48,994 --> 00:13:50,563 A BIG TRANSITION. 494 00:13:50,563 --> 00:13:52,097 THE HOG HOUSES ARE EMPTY NOW, 495 00:13:52,097 --> 00:13:53,499 AND THE EIGHT-ACRE WASTE LAGOON 496 00:13:53,499 --> 00:13:55,100 IS SLOWLY BEING TRANSITIONED TO 497 00:13:55,100 --> 00:13:56,735 A FRESHWATER POND. 498 00:13:56,735 --> 00:13:59,338 ( COWS MOOING ) 499 00:13:59,338 --> 00:14:00,806 AFTER FLORENCE, MARASCO HAD TO 500 00:14:00,806 --> 00:14:02,041 SELL OFF PART OF THE FARM'S 501 00:14:02,041 --> 00:14:03,342 CATTLE HERD, BUT SHE IS NOW 502 00:14:03,342 --> 00:14:04,810 BUILDING IT BACK UP. 503 00:14:04,810 --> 00:14:06,712 16 CALVES WERE BORN THIS SEASON, 504 00:14:06,712 --> 00:14:08,814 INCLUDING A FEW JUST THIS WEEK.. 505 00:14:08,814 --> 00:14:10,382 >> THE MIDDLE OF THE BUILDING IS 506 00:14:10,382 --> 00:14:11,684 THE ONLY THING THAT WAS LEFT 507 00:14:11,684 --> 00:14:12,751 INTACT. 508 00:14:12,751 --> 00:14:13,719 >> Sreenivasan: MARASCO IS ALSO 509 00:14:13,719 --> 00:14:14,954 BANKING ON TOURISM. 510 00:14:14,954 --> 00:14:15,988 SHE'S TURNING AN ALMOST 511 00:14:15,988 --> 00:14:17,756 100-YEAR-OLD TOBACCO BARN TO A 512 00:14:17,756 --> 00:14:19,491 YEAR-ROUND FARMERS MARKET, ART 513 00:14:19,491 --> 00:14:21,260 GALLERY, AND LOCAL GOODS STORE. 514 00:14:21,260 --> 00:14:22,761 >> WE EVEN HAVE THE OLD 515 00:14:22,761 --> 00:14:24,163 ELECTRICAL BOX. 516 00:14:24,163 --> 00:14:25,264 >> Sreenivasan: MARASCO IS A 517 00:14:25,264 --> 00:14:26,265 STRONG SUPPORTER OF STEVE 518 00:14:26,265 --> 00:14:27,967 TROXLER FOR REELECTION AS 519 00:14:27,967 --> 00:14:29,268 AGRICULTURE COMMISSIONER, AND 520 00:14:29,268 --> 00:14:30,736 CITES HIS EFFORTS HELPING FARMS 521 00:14:30,736 --> 00:14:32,204 RECOVER FROM FLORENCE. 522 00:14:32,204 --> 00:14:33,572 BUT WHEN IT COMES TO CLIMATE 523 00:14:33,572 --> 00:14:35,307 CHANGE, SHE SAYS IT'S A BIG 524 00:14:35,307 --> 00:14:36,275 FACTOR IN THINKING ABOUT THE 525 00:14:36,275 --> 00:14:38,444 LONG-TERM FUTURE OF HER FARM AND 526 00:14:38,444 --> 00:14:40,412 MOVING AWAY FROM HOGS. 527 00:14:40,412 --> 00:14:42,882 >> WE DON'T WANT TO BE THAT ONE 528 00:14:42,882 --> 00:14:44,950 THAT CAUSES OUR WATER SYSTEM TO 529 00:14:44,950 --> 00:14:47,152 BE COMPROMISED. 530 00:14:47,152 --> 00:14:48,787 AND, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU 531 00:14:48,787 --> 00:14:49,822 JUST HAVE TO REALIZE YOU JUST 532 00:14:49,822 --> 00:14:50,923 CAN'T FIGHT IT. 533 00:14:50,923 --> 00:14:52,057 YOUR SAIL IS NOT BIG ENOUGH TO 534 00:14:52,057 --> 00:14:53,692 GET THROUGH THAT STORM. 535 00:14:53,692 --> 00:14:58,297 AND SO WE JUST FELT LIKE IT WAS 536 00:14:58,297 --> 00:15:01,033 TIME TO DO SOMETHING NEW. 537 00:15:01,033 --> 00:15:01,867 >> Sreenivasan: HERE IN NORTH 538 00:15:01,867 --> 00:15:02,868 CAROLINA, AS IN PREVIOUS 539 00:15:02,868 --> 00:15:04,536 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, THE 540 00:15:04,536 --> 00:15:05,738 STATE HAS EMERGED AS AN 541 00:15:05,738 --> 00:15:07,139 IMPORTANT BATTLEGROUND. 542 00:15:07,139 --> 00:15:08,707 BOTH PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES AND 543 00:15:08,707 --> 00:15:10,242 VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES 544 00:15:10,242 --> 00:15:11,710 HAVE BEEN MAKING FREQUENT STOPS 545 00:15:11,710 --> 00:15:13,879 HERE, AND THERE IS ALSO A CLOSE 546 00:15:13,879 --> 00:15:14,914 SENATE RACE. 547 00:15:14,914 --> 00:15:16,548 THE TARHEEL STATE ALSO FINDS 548 00:15:16,548 --> 00:15:18,484 ITSELF FACING ISSUES OF RISING 549 00:15:18,484 --> 00:15:21,487 COVID-19 CASES, INCREASING COSTS 550 00:15:21,487 --> 00:15:23,155 OF HEALTH CARE, AND ECONOMIC 551 00:15:23,155 --> 00:15:25,491 LOSSES, SOME DUE IN PART TO A 552 00:15:25,491 --> 00:15:26,825 CHANGING CLIMATE. 553 00:15:26,825 --> 00:15:28,227 FOR MORE ON HOW THE ISSUES MAY 554 00:15:28,227 --> 00:15:29,795 PLAY OUT HERE IN NORTH CAROLINA 555 00:15:29,795 --> 00:15:31,730 ON ELECTION DAY, I SAT DOWN WITH 556 00:15:31,730 --> 00:15:33,599 RUSTY JACOBS, POLITICS REPORTER 557 00:15:33,599 --> 00:15:35,901 FOR WUNC, NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC 558 00:15:35,901 --> 00:15:37,069 RADIO. 559 00:15:37,069 --> 00:15:39,371 >> THERE'S A LOT OF ENTHUSIASM 560 00:15:39,371 --> 00:15:40,472 AND A LOT OF ATTENTION IN 561 00:15:40,472 --> 00:15:42,274 GENERAL, AND YOU'VE SEEN SOME 562 00:15:42,274 --> 00:15:45,644 REALLY IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS IN 563 00:15:45,644 --> 00:15:46,979 THE TURNOUT SO FAR IN NORTH 564 00:15:46,979 --> 00:15:48,681 CAROLINA. 565 00:15:48,681 --> 00:15:49,882 TUFTS HAS BEEN DOING SOME 566 00:15:49,882 --> 00:15:51,150 RESEARCH ON THE TURNOUT OF YOUNG 567 00:15:51,150 --> 00:15:53,552 VOTERS, 18 TO 29. 568 00:15:53,552 --> 00:15:54,653 NORTH CAROLINA IS RIGHT UP AT 569 00:15:54,653 --> 00:15:56,021 THE TOP, RIGHT BEHIND FLORIDA 570 00:15:56,021 --> 00:15:57,556 AND TEXAS, AS HAVING THE BIGGEST 571 00:15:57,556 --> 00:16:00,125 NUMBER OF THAT YOUNG VOTER AGE 572 00:16:00,125 --> 00:16:02,361 RANGE TURNOUT ALREADY. 573 00:16:02,361 --> 00:16:05,831 JOE BIDEN MAINTAINS AN EDGE 574 00:16:05,831 --> 00:16:07,266 RIGHT NOW, MAYBE THREE OR FOUR 575 00:16:07,266 --> 00:16:09,101 PERCENT OVER DONALD TRUMP. 576 00:16:09,101 --> 00:16:11,070 AND YOU SEE IN THOSE NUMBERS AN 577 00:16:11,070 --> 00:16:13,205 ADVANTAGE FOR THE DEMOCRATIC 578 00:16:13,205 --> 00:16:15,874 TICKET FROM WOMEN, A MAJORITY OF 579 00:16:15,874 --> 00:16:17,476 WOMEN, ACCORDING TO RECENT 580 00:16:17,476 --> 00:16:19,478 POLLS, SUPPORTING THE BIDEN 581 00:16:19,478 --> 00:16:22,214 HARRIS TICKET AND BLACK VOTERS, 582 00:16:22,214 --> 00:16:23,415 VERY KEY BLOC HERE IN NORTH 583 00:16:23,415 --> 00:16:24,650 CAROLINA. 584 00:16:24,650 --> 00:16:26,518 AND THEY ARE OVERWHELMINGLY AT 585 00:16:26,518 --> 00:16:27,987 THIS POINT THROUGH POLLS 586 00:16:27,987 --> 00:16:29,788 INDICATING SUPPORT FOR BIDEN AND 587 00:16:29,788 --> 00:16:31,190 HARRIS OVER DONALD TRUMP AND 588 00:16:31,190 --> 00:16:32,591 MIKE PENCE. 589 00:16:32,591 --> 00:16:33,726 >> Sreenivasan: THERE'S ALSO A 590 00:16:33,726 --> 00:16:34,927 TON OF MONEY THAT'S BEEN POURED 591 00:16:34,927 --> 00:16:36,228 IN ON BOTH SIDES ON THE SENATE 592 00:16:36,228 --> 00:16:38,430 RACE. 593 00:16:38,430 --> 00:16:40,366 WE ALSO HAD IN THE MIDDLE OF 594 00:16:40,366 --> 00:16:42,234 THAT RACE, OR LATE IN THAT RACE, 595 00:16:42,234 --> 00:16:43,569 A REVELATION THAT THE 596 00:16:43,569 --> 00:16:44,837 DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE HAD AN 597 00:16:44,837 --> 00:16:46,505 EXTRAMARITAL AFFAIR. 598 00:16:46,505 --> 00:16:48,340 HAS THAT PLAYED INTO WHAT'S 599 00:16:48,340 --> 00:16:49,675 HAPPENING NOW? 600 00:16:49,675 --> 00:16:51,043 >> NOT SO FAR. 601 00:16:51,043 --> 00:16:52,344 LET'S PUT IT THIS WAY: CAL 602 00:16:52,344 --> 00:16:53,946 CUNNINGHAM, THE DEMOCRAT 603 00:16:53,946 --> 00:16:55,814 CHALLENGING FIRST-TIME... 604 00:16:55,814 --> 00:16:58,617 FIRST-TERM INCUMBENT THOM 605 00:16:58,617 --> 00:17:01,020 TILLIS, MAINTAINS AN EDGE. 606 00:17:01,020 --> 00:17:02,254 KIND OF LIKE JOE BIDEN, HE'S IN 607 00:17:02,254 --> 00:17:03,756 THAT THREE TO FIVE PERCENT RANGE 608 00:17:03,756 --> 00:17:05,491 RIGHT NOW OVER THOM TILLIS, 609 00:17:05,491 --> 00:17:07,926 ACCORDING TO RECENT POLLS. 610 00:17:07,926 --> 00:17:10,629 BUT AS YOU NOTED, THAT'S KIND OF 611 00:17:10,629 --> 00:17:12,231 SURPRISING, CONSIDERING THAT 612 00:17:12,231 --> 00:17:14,466 JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO, IT EMERGED 613 00:17:14,466 --> 00:17:15,968 HE HAD BEEN ENGAGING IN 614 00:17:15,968 --> 00:17:17,002 INAPPROPRIATE, SEXUALLY 615 00:17:17,002 --> 00:17:18,370 SUGGESTIVE TEXTS WITH ANOTHER 616 00:17:18,370 --> 00:17:20,406 WOMAN, NOT HIS WIFE. 617 00:17:20,406 --> 00:17:22,207 HE'S BEEN VERY DISCIPLINED ABOUT 618 00:17:22,207 --> 00:17:24,376 NOT ANSWERING QUESTIONS ON THAT 619 00:17:24,376 --> 00:17:25,711 SUBJECT. 620 00:17:25,711 --> 00:17:27,346 HE'S AVOIDED ANSWERING 621 00:17:27,346 --> 00:17:28,380 QUESTIONS. 622 00:17:28,380 --> 00:17:29,681 HE SAID IT'S A PRIVATE MATTER. 623 00:17:29,681 --> 00:17:31,517 HE HAS CONSISTENTLY STUCK TO THE 624 00:17:31,517 --> 00:17:33,552 ELECTION ISSUES THAT SEEM TO BE 625 00:17:33,552 --> 00:17:35,154 RESONATING THE MOST WITH VOTERS: 626 00:17:35,154 --> 00:17:36,655 ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE HEALTH 627 00:17:36,655 --> 00:17:38,257 CARE, HANDLING OF THE 628 00:17:38,257 --> 00:17:39,825 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC. 629 00:17:39,825 --> 00:17:41,226 IT ALSO DIDN'T HURT CAL 630 00:17:41,226 --> 00:17:42,628 CUNNINGHAM THAT AT THE SAME TIME 631 00:17:42,628 --> 00:17:44,696 THE SCANDAL EMERGED, THOM TILLIS 632 00:17:44,696 --> 00:17:46,799 CONTRACTED COVID-19. 633 00:17:46,799 --> 00:17:48,867 AND YOU GOT TO REMEMBER, HE 634 00:17:48,867 --> 00:17:51,303 ATTENDED THE NAMING CEREMONY FOR 635 00:17:51,303 --> 00:17:54,106 THEN-NOMINEE AMY CONEY BARRETT 636 00:17:54,106 --> 00:17:56,442 FOR THE SUPREME COURT. 637 00:17:56,442 --> 00:17:57,843 A LOT OF TRUMP ADMINISTRATION 638 00:17:57,843 --> 00:17:59,211 OFFICIALS AND THE PRESIDENT 639 00:17:59,211 --> 00:18:01,814 CONTRACTED COVID-19. 640 00:18:01,814 --> 00:18:03,082 THAT IN A WAY NOT ONLY 641 00:18:03,082 --> 00:18:05,084 COMPROMISED THOM TILLIS' HEALTH, 642 00:18:05,084 --> 00:18:06,151 BUT IT MAY HAVE COMPROMISED HIS 643 00:18:06,151 --> 00:18:07,186 PRINCIPLES. 644 00:18:07,186 --> 00:18:08,654 AT ONE TIME HE WAS SEEN AS 645 00:18:08,654 --> 00:18:10,189 SOMEWHAT INDEPENDENT. 646 00:18:10,189 --> 00:18:11,824 THERE WAS A TIME HE FAMOUSLY 647 00:18:11,824 --> 00:18:13,692 OPPOSED EMERGENCY FUNDING FOR 648 00:18:13,692 --> 00:18:16,028 PRESIDENT TRUMP'S BORDER WALL. 649 00:18:16,028 --> 00:18:17,529 HE THEN INFAMOUSLY FLIPPED ON 650 00:18:17,529 --> 00:18:19,832 THAT ISSUE AND CAST AN IMPORTANT 651 00:18:19,832 --> 00:18:21,900 VOTE SUPPORTING THAT FUNDING. 652 00:18:21,900 --> 00:18:24,269 SO HE'S TIED HIS FATE TO DONALD 653 00:18:24,269 --> 00:18:26,105 TRUMP, BUT HAS CONTRACTED 654 00:18:26,105 --> 00:18:27,306 COVID-19. 655 00:18:27,306 --> 00:18:29,274 AND THAT, IN A WAY, SYMBOLIZES 656 00:18:29,274 --> 00:18:31,376 FOR SOME PEOPLE AND MAYBE SOME 657 00:18:31,376 --> 00:18:33,612 KEY VOTERS, SUPPORT FOR A KIND 658 00:18:33,612 --> 00:18:35,247 OF A RECKLESS POLICY WHEN IT 659 00:18:35,247 --> 00:18:36,281 COMES TO HANDLING OF THE 660 00:18:36,281 --> 00:18:37,616 COVID-19 PANDEMIC. 661 00:18:37,616 --> 00:18:39,551 >> Sreenivasan: SO IT SOUNDS 662 00:18:39,551 --> 00:18:42,221 LIKE IT IS ABOUT CORONAVIRUS. 663 00:18:42,221 --> 00:18:44,590 IT IS ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP. 664 00:18:44,590 --> 00:18:46,225 AND THOSE ARE THE SORT OF 665 00:18:46,225 --> 00:18:50,028 PRIMARY DRIVERS AND HOW YOU VIEW 666 00:18:50,028 --> 00:18:52,698 THOSE TWO THINGS IS IN PART 667 00:18:52,698 --> 00:18:55,067 RESPONSIBLE FOR WHY NORTH 668 00:18:55,067 --> 00:18:57,002 CAROLINA'S BECOME SUCH A 669 00:18:57,002 --> 00:18:58,370 CONTENTIOUS BATTLEGROUND. 670 00:18:58,370 --> 00:19:00,172 >> ABSOLUTELY. 671 00:19:00,172 --> 00:19:01,340 LET'S LOOK AT THE GOVERNOR RACE 672 00:19:01,340 --> 00:19:03,542 IN NORTH CAROLINA RIGHT NOW. 673 00:19:03,542 --> 00:19:05,010 THAT, IN A WAY, THAT RACE WHERE 674 00:19:05,010 --> 00:19:06,812 GOVERNOR COOPER HAS A BIG 675 00:19:06,812 --> 00:19:09,314 ADVANTAGE RIGHT NOW, IS IN A 676 00:19:09,314 --> 00:19:10,549 WAY EMBLEMATIC OF THE 677 00:19:10,549 --> 00:19:12,151 PRESIDENTIAL RACE. 678 00:19:12,151 --> 00:19:14,019 THE VERY ISSUES THAT LT. GOV. 679 00:19:14,019 --> 00:19:15,554 DAN FOREST IS RUNNING ON, SAME 680 00:19:15,554 --> 00:19:17,289 AS PRESIDENT TRUMP, HE TRAILS 681 00:19:17,289 --> 00:19:19,024 THE DEMOCRAT, ROY COOPER, WHO'S 682 00:19:19,024 --> 00:19:20,058 RUNNING ON A LOT OF THE SAME 683 00:19:20,058 --> 00:19:21,660 ISSUES THAT JOE BIDEN IS. 684 00:19:21,660 --> 00:19:22,628 >> Sreenivasan: RUSTY JACOBS, 685 00:19:22,628 --> 00:19:23,428 THANKS SO MUCH. 686 00:19:23,428 --> 00:19:35,974 >> YOU'RE WELCOME. 687 00:19:35,974 --> 00:19:37,142 >> Sreenivasan: THE 2020 688 00:19:37,142 --> 00:19:38,911 ELECTION CYCLE IS BY FAR THE 689 00:19:38,911 --> 00:19:40,946 MOST EXPENSIVE CAMPAIGN YEAR IN 690 00:19:40,946 --> 00:19:42,147 HISTORY. 691 00:19:42,147 --> 00:19:43,515 ADVERTISING SPENDING ON 692 00:19:43,515 --> 00:19:44,883 CANDIDATES RUNNING FOR FEDERAL 693 00:19:44,883 --> 00:19:46,518 OFFICE ACROSS THE COUNTRY HAS 694 00:19:46,518 --> 00:19:49,888 REACHED TOTALS OF AT LEAST $2.5 695 00:19:49,888 --> 00:19:52,090 BILLION SO FAR. 696 00:19:52,090 --> 00:19:53,592 SINCE JANUARY OF LAST YEAR, 697 00:19:53,592 --> 00:19:55,861 CLOSE TO FIVE MILLION ADS FOR 698 00:19:55,861 --> 00:19:57,796 PRESIDENT, SENATE, AND CONGRESS 699 00:19:57,796 --> 00:19:58,964 HAVE AIRED ON TELEVISION 700 00:19:58,964 --> 00:20:00,566 AIRWAVES ALONE. 701 00:20:00,566 --> 00:20:01,900 THAT'S MORE THAN TWICE THE 702 00:20:01,900 --> 00:20:03,902 VOLUME OF ADS IN THE PAST TWO 703 00:20:03,902 --> 00:20:05,304 PRESIDENTIAL CYCLES. 704 00:20:05,304 --> 00:20:06,572 NEWSHOUR WEEKEND'S CHRISTOPHER 705 00:20:06,572 --> 00:20:08,073 BOOKER SAT DOWN WITH ERIKA 706 00:20:08,073 --> 00:20:09,875 FRANKLIN FOWLER, CO-FOUNDER OF 707 00:20:09,875 --> 00:20:11,510 THE WESLEYAN MEDIA PROJECT, 708 00:20:11,510 --> 00:20:12,678 WHICH TRACKS POLITICAL 709 00:20:12,678 --> 00:20:15,847 ADVERTISING, TO FIND OUT MORE. 710 00:20:15,847 --> 00:20:16,848 >> ♪ IKE FOR PRESIDENT, 711 00:20:16,848 --> 00:20:17,849 IKE FOR PRESIDENT. 712 00:20:17,849 --> 00:20:19,851 ♪ YOU LIKE IKE, I LIKE IKE, 713 00:20:19,851 --> 00:20:21,086 EVERYBODY LIKES IKE FOR 714 00:20:21,086 --> 00:20:21,687 PRESIDENT. ♪ 715 00:20:21,687 --> 00:20:22,721 >> POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENTS HAVE 716 00:20:22,721 --> 00:20:25,190 COME A LONG WAY SINCE THIS 1952 717 00:20:25,190 --> 00:20:26,825 DWIGHT EISENHOWER COMMERCIAL. 718 00:20:26,825 --> 00:20:28,794 WHILE EISENHOWER'S CAMPAIGN WAS 719 00:20:28,794 --> 00:20:30,429 THE FIRST TO USE THE TELEVISION 720 00:20:30,429 --> 00:20:32,731 LIKE THIS, NEARLY 70 YEARS 721 00:20:32,731 --> 00:20:33,465 LATER... 722 00:20:33,465 --> 00:20:34,733 >> CHANGE IS WHAT WE GOT. 723 00:20:34,733 --> 00:20:36,235 >> CHOOSE A PRESIDENT WHO 724 00:20:36,235 --> 00:20:38,103 BRINGS OUT OUR BEST. 725 00:20:38,103 --> 00:20:39,238 >> TELEVISION IS STILL 726 00:20:39,238 --> 00:20:40,205 PLAYING A PROMINENT ROLE IN 727 00:20:40,205 --> 00:20:42,174 CAMPAIGNS, EVEN AS NEW PLATFORMS 728 00:20:42,174 --> 00:20:43,675 CAPTURE MORE AND MORE OF THE 729 00:20:43,675 --> 00:20:45,310 PUBLIC'S ATTENTION. 730 00:20:45,310 --> 00:20:46,378 >> WHEN WE GOT IN TRACKING 731 00:20:46,378 --> 00:20:47,779 TEN YEARS AGO, PEOPLE WERE 732 00:20:47,779 --> 00:20:49,381 ALREADY AT THAT POINT PREDICTING 733 00:20:49,381 --> 00:20:51,183 THE DEMISE OF TELEVISION. 734 00:20:51,183 --> 00:20:52,884 AND IN EVERY YEAR THAT WE'VE 735 00:20:52,884 --> 00:20:54,987 BEEN TRACKING-- THERE WAS A 736 00:20:54,987 --> 00:20:57,856 PLATEAU, BUT PRIMARILY VOLUMES 737 00:20:57,856 --> 00:20:59,424 HAVE ONLY GONE UP. 738 00:20:59,424 --> 00:21:00,726 >> ERIKA FRANKLIN FOWLER IS THE 739 00:21:00,726 --> 00:21:02,294 CO-DIRECTOR OF THE WESLEYAN 740 00:21:02,294 --> 00:21:03,829 MEDIA PROJECT, WHICH BEGAN 741 00:21:03,829 --> 00:21:05,430 TRACKING BROADCAST ADVERTISING 742 00:21:05,430 --> 00:21:06,999 IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS TEN YEARS 743 00:21:06,999 --> 00:21:08,967 AGO, AND DIGITAL ADS TWO YEARS 744 00:21:08,967 --> 00:21:10,102 AGO. 745 00:21:10,102 --> 00:21:11,536 THIS YEAR, FOWLER CO-AUTHORED A 746 00:21:11,536 --> 00:21:13,105 STUDY COMPARING HOW CANDIDATES 747 00:21:13,105 --> 00:21:15,440 ADVERTISED ON TV VERSUS FACEBOOK 748 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:17,676 IN THE 2018 MIDTERMS. 749 00:21:17,676 --> 00:21:18,677 >> TELEVISION ADS ARE REALLY 750 00:21:18,677 --> 00:21:20,112 THERE TO PERSUADE. 751 00:21:20,112 --> 00:21:21,747 DIGITAL ADS HAVE A WHOLE WIDE 752 00:21:21,747 --> 00:21:23,482 VARIETY OF DIFFERENT GOALS. 753 00:21:23,482 --> 00:21:25,017 SO YOU'LL HAVE ADS THAT ARE 754 00:21:25,017 --> 00:21:26,818 SEEKING TO GET CITIZENS TO SIGN 755 00:21:26,818 --> 00:21:28,520 UP FOR THEIR MAILING LIST SO 756 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:30,589 THAT THEY STAY INFORMED. 757 00:21:30,589 --> 00:21:32,391 YOU'LL ALSO HAVE ADS THAT ARE 758 00:21:32,391 --> 00:21:33,792 ABOUT DONATING TO A PARTICULAR 759 00:21:33,792 --> 00:21:34,326 RACE. 760 00:21:34,326 --> 00:21:36,328 DIGITAL ADS IN A LOT OF WAYS 761 00:21:36,328 --> 00:21:38,196 DRIVE FUNDRAISING AND CAN DRIVE 762 00:21:38,196 --> 00:21:40,265 MORE MONEY TO SPEND EVERYWHERE, 763 00:21:40,265 --> 00:21:41,433 WHICH CAN INCLUDE MORE MONEY 764 00:21:41,433 --> 00:21:42,601 ON TELEVISION. 765 00:21:42,601 --> 00:21:44,469 SO IN SOME WAYS, THEY FEED 766 00:21:44,469 --> 00:21:45,771 EACH OTHER IN THIS WAY. 767 00:21:45,771 --> 00:21:46,872 >> SINCE THE GENERAL ELECTION 768 00:21:46,872 --> 00:21:48,173 BEGAN IN APRIL, FORMER VICE 769 00:21:48,173 --> 00:21:49,541 PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN HAS OUTSPENT 770 00:21:49,541 --> 00:21:50,976 PRESIDENT TRUMP ON TELEVISION 771 00:21:50,976 --> 00:21:53,478 ADS BY MORE THAN 69 PERCENT. 772 00:21:53,478 --> 00:21:55,380 COLLECTIVELY, THE TWO CAMPAIGNS 773 00:21:55,380 --> 00:21:58,016 HAVE PUT MORE THAN $360 MILLION 774 00:21:58,016 --> 00:22:00,185 TOWARDS FACEBOOK AND GOOGLE ADS. 775 00:22:00,185 --> 00:22:02,220 AND FOWLER SAYS THE 2020 776 00:22:02,220 --> 00:22:03,555 ADVERTISEMENT TSUNAMI IS 777 00:22:03,555 --> 00:22:05,290 REFLECTIVE OF SOMETHING ELSE. 778 00:22:05,290 --> 00:22:06,958 >> CERTAINLY AS A SOCIETY, WE 779 00:22:06,958 --> 00:22:08,660 HAVE BECOME MUCH MORE POLARIZED. 780 00:22:08,660 --> 00:22:09,628 WE'VE BECOME MUCH MORE 781 00:22:09,628 --> 00:22:10,929 NATIONALIZED. 782 00:22:10,929 --> 00:22:12,431 THE THINGS THAT WE TALK ABOUT, 783 00:22:12,431 --> 00:22:14,032 EVEN WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 784 00:22:14,032 --> 00:22:15,901 LOCAL POLITICS, ARE OFTEN MUCH 785 00:22:15,901 --> 00:22:17,069 MORE ABOUT NATIONAL 786 00:22:17,069 --> 00:22:18,570 CONVERSATIONS, ABOUT HEALTH CARE 787 00:22:18,570 --> 00:22:20,672 AND OTHER SORTS OF PROVISION OF 788 00:22:20,672 --> 00:22:22,341 THINGS THAN THEY ARE NECESSARILY 789 00:22:22,341 --> 00:22:24,376 ABOUT SPECIFIC LOCAL ISSUES. 790 00:22:24,376 --> 00:22:25,777 >> FOWLER SAYS PART OF WHAT'S 791 00:22:25,777 --> 00:22:27,279 DRIVING THE INCREASE IN AD 792 00:22:27,279 --> 00:22:28,947 SPENDING AND CHANGE IN TONE ARE 793 00:22:28,947 --> 00:22:30,315 POLITICAL ACTION GROUPS, OR 794 00:22:30,315 --> 00:22:31,717 PACS. 795 00:22:31,717 --> 00:22:32,984 >> JOE BIDEN IS A JOB-KILLING, 796 00:22:32,984 --> 00:22:34,519 TAX-RAISING DISASTER. 797 00:22:34,519 --> 00:22:36,021 >> REFUSING TO PREPARE... 798 00:22:36,021 --> 00:22:37,556 >> THE 2010 CITIZENS UNITED 799 00:22:37,556 --> 00:22:39,358 SUPREME COURT RULING ALLOWS 800 00:22:39,358 --> 00:22:41,026 OUTSIDE GROUPS AND PACS, LIKE 801 00:22:41,026 --> 00:22:43,095 PRIORITIES USA AND AMERICA FIRST 802 00:22:43,095 --> 00:22:44,996 ACTION, TO RAISE AND SPEND 803 00:22:44,996 --> 00:22:46,965 UNLIMITED FUNDS ON ELECTIONS. 804 00:22:46,965 --> 00:22:48,667 THIS YEAR, DEMOCRATIC SUPER PACS 805 00:22:48,667 --> 00:22:50,235 HAVE DRAMATICALLY INVESTED IN 806 00:22:50,235 --> 00:22:51,737 ADVERTISING, HITTING DONALD 807 00:22:51,737 --> 00:22:52,971 TRUMP ON HEALTHCARE AND HIS 808 00:22:52,971 --> 00:22:54,639 RECORD DURING THE PANDEMIC, FROM 809 00:22:54,639 --> 00:22:55,874 MICHAEL BLOOMBERG'S INDEPENDENCE 810 00:22:55,874 --> 00:22:57,042 USA... 811 00:22:57,042 --> 00:22:58,310 >> IF TRUMP GETS HIS WAY, OVER 812 00:22:58,310 --> 00:23:00,045 40 MILLION FLORIDIANS WITH 813 00:23:00,045 --> 00:23:01,546 PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS LIKE 814 00:23:01,546 --> 00:23:02,981 CANCER AND DIABETES COULD 815 00:23:02,981 --> 00:23:04,649 LOSE THEIR HEALTHCARE. 816 00:23:04,649 --> 00:23:05,984 >> ...TO FUTURE FORWARD, A NEW 817 00:23:05,984 --> 00:23:07,285 SUPER PAC BACKED BY A GROUP OF 818 00:23:07,285 --> 00:23:09,087 SILICON VALLEY BILLIONAIRES, 819 00:23:09,087 --> 00:23:10,589 INCLUDING FACEBOOK CO-FOUNDER 820 00:23:10,589 --> 00:23:12,090 DUSTIN MOSKOVITZ AND FORMER 821 00:23:12,090 --> 00:23:14,092 GOOGLE CEO ERIC SCHMIDT. 822 00:23:14,092 --> 00:23:15,527 >> JOE BIDEN HAS A PLAN. 823 00:23:15,527 --> 00:23:16,995 >> HE ACTUALLY HAS A PLAN. 824 00:23:16,995 --> 00:23:18,163 >> THE TWO PACS HAVE POURED AN 825 00:23:18,163 --> 00:23:20,232 ASTONISHING $90 MILLION SO FAR 826 00:23:20,232 --> 00:23:22,534 INTO TV AD SPOTS SINCE APRIL. 827 00:23:22,534 --> 00:23:23,835 >> THIS SUSAN COLLINS VOTED TO 828 00:23:23,835 --> 00:23:25,137 MAKE MIDDLE CLASS FAMILIES PAY 829 00:23:25,137 --> 00:23:26,271 MORE. 830 00:23:26,271 --> 00:23:27,606 >> AND IT'S NOT JUST THE 831 00:23:27,606 --> 00:23:28,740 PRESIDENTIAL RACE, THIS IS 832 00:23:28,740 --> 00:23:29,641 HAPPENING IN DOWN BALLOT RACES 833 00:23:29,641 --> 00:23:30,609 AS WELL. 834 00:23:30,609 --> 00:23:31,877 NEARLY HALF OF THE ADS IN THE 835 00:23:31,877 --> 00:23:33,111 MAINE SENATE RACE HAVE BEEN 836 00:23:33,111 --> 00:23:34,679 FUNDED BY OUTSIDE GROUPS, LIKE 837 00:23:34,679 --> 00:23:36,047 THIS ONE AGAINST REPUBLICAN 838 00:23:36,047 --> 00:23:37,716 SENATOR SUSAN COLLINS. 839 00:23:37,716 --> 00:23:39,084 >> OUTSIDE GROUPS AND PARTIES 840 00:23:39,084 --> 00:23:40,118 TEND TO PLAY THAT ROLE OF 841 00:23:40,118 --> 00:23:41,253 ATTACK DOG. 842 00:23:41,253 --> 00:23:42,454 CITIZENS GENERALLY DON'T LIKE 843 00:23:42,454 --> 00:23:44,623 NEGATIVE ADVERTISING, AND IF I 844 00:23:44,623 --> 00:23:45,824 AS A CANDIDATE GO NEGATIVE 845 00:23:45,824 --> 00:23:47,492 AGAINST MY OPPONENT, THAT AD 846 00:23:47,492 --> 00:23:48,860 MIGHT BE EFFECTIVE IN REDUCING 847 00:23:48,860 --> 00:23:51,096 THE FAVORABILITY OF MY OPPONENT, 848 00:23:51,096 --> 00:23:53,064 BUT I ALSO TEND TO SUFFER SOME 849 00:23:53,064 --> 00:23:54,366 BACKLASH FROM AIRING THE 850 00:23:54,366 --> 00:23:56,468 NEGATIVITY IN THE FIRST PLACE. 851 00:23:56,468 --> 00:23:57,736 >> THE NEGATIVITY IS A FAR 852 00:23:57,736 --> 00:23:59,004 DEPARTURE FROM EISENHOWER'S 853 00:23:59,004 --> 00:24:00,839 DANCING ELEPHANTS, BUT DOES IT 854 00:24:00,839 --> 00:24:02,407 REALLY MAKE AN IMPACT ON HOW 855 00:24:02,407 --> 00:24:04,142 WE VOTE? 856 00:24:04,142 --> 00:24:05,577 >> AS A SOCIETY WE TEND TO 857 00:24:05,577 --> 00:24:06,912 OVERSUBSCRIBE THE EFFECTS OF 858 00:24:06,912 --> 00:24:09,481 ADVERTISING, AND SCHOLARS FOR A 859 00:24:09,481 --> 00:24:10,649 VERY LONG TIME HAVE BEEN SAYING 860 00:24:10,649 --> 00:24:11,950 ADVERTISING MATTERS AT THE 861 00:24:11,950 --> 00:24:13,018 MARGIN. 862 00:24:13,018 --> 00:24:14,152 IF I GO FURTHER DOWN THE BALLOT 863 00:24:14,152 --> 00:24:15,287 AND I'M SEEING ADS FOR 864 00:24:15,287 --> 00:24:16,455 CANDIDATES THAT I DON'T KNOW 865 00:24:16,455 --> 00:24:17,823 VERY MUCH ABOUT, THOSE ADS ARE 866 00:24:17,823 --> 00:24:19,291 MORE LIKELY TO ACTUALLY HAVE AN 867 00:24:19,291 --> 00:24:20,659 INFLUENCE. 868 00:24:20,659 --> 00:24:21,827 >> OUTSIDE GROUPS HAVE ALREADY 869 00:24:21,827 --> 00:24:24,162 SPENT MORE THAN $2.5 BILLION 870 00:24:24,162 --> 00:24:25,530 IN POLITICAL ADVERTISING THIS 871 00:24:25,530 --> 00:24:27,199 ELECTION, NEARLY TWICE WHAT WAS 872 00:24:27,199 --> 00:24:40,111 SPENT IN 2016. 873 00:24:40,111 --> 00:24:40,846 >> Sreenivasan: WE WILL HAVE 874 00:24:40,846 --> 00:24:41,980 MORE FROM NORTH CAROLINA 875 00:24:41,980 --> 00:24:43,748 TOMORROW ON OUR FINAL WEEKEND OF 876 00:24:43,748 --> 00:24:45,116 OUR "ROADS TO ELECTION 2020" 877 00:24:45,116 --> 00:24:45,984 COVERAGE. 878 00:24:45,984 --> 00:24:46,751 AND, NEWSHOUR WEEKEND'S 879 00:24:46,751 --> 00:24:48,220 CHRISTOPHER BOOKER WILL BE BACK 880 00:24:48,220 --> 00:24:49,754 IN PENNSYLVANIA, THE PLACE WHERE 881 00:24:49,754 --> 00:24:51,389 WE STARTED THIS SERIES, AND A 882 00:24:51,389 --> 00:24:52,724 STATE WHERE IT MAY TAKE SEVERAL 883 00:24:52,724 --> 00:24:54,526 DAYS TO COUNT ALL THE VOTES. 884 00:24:54,526 --> 00:24:55,794 DON'T FORGET TO SET YOUR CLOCKS 885 00:24:55,794 --> 00:24:57,095 BACK ONE HOUR TONIGHT-- IF 886 00:24:57,095 --> 00:24:58,230 YOU'RE IN DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME 887 00:24:58,230 --> 00:25:00,465 AREAS-- AND HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 888 00:25:00,465 --> 00:25:01,266 THAT'S ALL FOR THIS EDITION OF 889 00:25:01,266 --> 00:25:02,467 PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND. 890 00:25:02,467 --> 00:25:03,435 I'M HARI SREENIVASAN. 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