% >> THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION IN
% MILWAUKEE WILL MOVE FROM THE
% FISERV ARENA TO A SMALLER VENUE
% AND BE MOSTLY REMOTE, WITH
% DELEGATES BEING TOLD NOT TO
% COME.
% CANDIDATE JOE BIDEN AND HIS
% RUNNING MATE, HOWEVER, ARE
% SLATED TO ACCEPT THE NOMINATION
% IN MILWAUKEE.
% THIS WEEK THE TRUMP AND PENCE
% VISITS TO WISCONSIN COME AS
% THEIR REELECTION BID HEATS UP
% AGAINST FORMER VICE PRESIDENT
% JOE BIDEN.
% BOTH CANDIDATES HOPE TO CLAIM
% WISCONSIN AFTER TRUMP NARROWLY
% WON THE STATE IN 2016.
% A MARQUETTE LAW SCHOOL POLL
% GIVES US AN INDICATION OF HOW
% THAT RACE IS TAKING SHAPE.
% POLLSTER CHARLES FRANKLIN JOINS
% US WITH THOSE RESULTS, AND THANK
% YOU FOR BEING HERE.
% >> GOOD TO BE HERE.
% THANKS.
% >> SO AS TO THE RACE FOR
% PRESIDENT IN WISCONSIN, YOUR
% POLLING FOUND THAT 49% FAVOR JOE
% BIDEN TO 41% FOR DONALD TRUMP.
% HOW HAVE THESE NUMBERS TRENDED?
% >> THIS IS A BUMP UP FOR BIDEN
% THIS MONTH.
% THAT EIGHT-POINT MARGIN THIS
% MONTH COMPARES TO THREE POINTS
% IN MARCH AND IN MAY AND A DEAD
% TIE IN FEBRUARY.
% SO WE'VE SEEN SOME MOVEMENT UP.
% BUT THIS MONTH A SPECIAL BUMP-UP
% FOR BIDEN.
% >> AND THIS IS TRENDING THAT WAY
% IN POLLS ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
% >> WE'VE SEEN IT IN POLLING
% ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
% WE'VE SEEN IT IN A NUMBER OF
% STATE POLLS AS WELL, NOT JUST
% NATIONAL POLLS.
% IF YOU THINK OF THE LAST SIX
% WEEKS, TWO MONTHS, THEY HAVE NOT
% BEEN FILLED WITH GOOD NEWS FOR
% THE INCUMBENT ADMINISTRATION,
% WHETHER IT'S THE PROTESTS OR THE
% VIRUS OR THE ECONOMY.
% AND SO THIS HAS NOT BEEN A GOOD
% TIME FOR THE PRESIDENT.
% >> YOU MENTIONED IT JUST A BIT
% AGO, BUT HIS APPROVAL FOR HIS
% HANDLING OF THE DEATH OF GEORGE
% FLOYD AND CORONAVIRUS IS UPSIDE
% DOWN RIGHT NOW.
% >> IT'S NOT JUST A LITTLE UPSIDE
% DOWN ON THE HANDLING OF THE
% PROTESTS.
% THERE ARE THREE CRISIS ISSUES
% THAT ARE GOING ON RIGHT NOW.
% IN HANDLING THE PROTESTS, ONLY
% 30% APPROVE OF THE JOB PRESIDENT
% TRUMP IS DOING.
% 58% DISAPPROVE.
% ON HANDLING THE VIRUS, 44%
% APPROVE.
% THAT'S UNCHANGED FROM LAST
% MONTH.
% AND ON THE ECONOMY, 50%
% APPROVES.
% THAT'S STILL HIS STRONG SUIT.
% BUT THAT 50% IS DOWN FOUR POINTS
% FROM A MONTH AGO.
% SO ACROSS THESE THREE CRISES,
% YOU SEE HIS RELATIVE WEAKNESS
% AND HIS DECLINING STRENGTH ON
% THE ECONOMY, AND WITH THE NEWEST
% ISSUE, THE PROTESTS, A KIND OF
% REMARKABLY STRONG NET NEGATIVE,
% 30 APPROVE, 58 DISAPPROVE,
% BASICALLY TWO-TO-ONE NEGATIVE.
% >> WELL, IN THAT REGARD, YOUR
% POLLING SHOWS ON RACE AND
% POLICE, SHOWS THAT OVERALL 61%
% OF RESPONDENTS APPROVE OF MASS
% PROTESTS, WHILE 36% DISAPPROVE.
% IS THAT A SURPRISING NUMBER TO
% YOU?
% >> I THINK IT'S A VERY
% INTERESTING NUMBER.
% YOU'VE HEARD A LOT OF PEOPLE
% MENTION THE COMPARISON OF 1968
% WITH TODAY.
% BUT THE REACTION TO THE 1968
% UNREST AND RIOTS AND CIVIL
% DISTURBANCES IN THE WAKE OF
% ASSASSINATIONS WAS VASTLY MORE
% NEGATIVE.
% TODAY, I THINK WHAT WE'RE SEEING
% IN THIS 60% APPROVAL NUMBER IS
% THE SYMPATHY FOR THE SITUATION
% OF BLACK AMERICANS WHO WE HAVE
% SEEN IN VIDEOS DYING AT THE
% HANDS OF THE POLICE REPEATEDLY
% OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS.
% THERE'S MUCH BIGGER DIFFERENCES
% OVER WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE
% POLICE, BUT IN THIS BROAD SENSE
% OF SYMPATHY, 61% IS A SOLID
% MAJORITY SUPPORTING THE
% PROTESTS.
% AND THAT'S DESPITE THE SOMETIMES
% VIOLENT NATURE OF SOME OF THOSE
% PROTESTS.
% >> MOVING ON TO GOVERNOR TONY
% EVERS' JOB APPROVAL, YOU FOUND
% THAT AMONG YOUR RESPONDENTS 54%
% APPROVE OF WHAT HE'S BEEN DOING
% AND 38% DISAPPROVE.
% NOW, THAT HAS SLIPPED FROM A
% HIGH OF 65%?
% IS THAT RIGHT?
% IN MARCH FOR TONY EVERS?
% >> THAT'S RIGHT.
% IN MARCH IT WAS 65.
% THEN IT FELL TO 59.
% AND NOW IT'S DOWN TO THE 54.
% HE WAS AT 51% IN FEBRUARY,
% BEFORE THE VIRUS HIT.
% SO HE'S JUST A LITTLE BIT HIGHER
% THAN HE WAS THEN.
% BUT THE HIGH WATERMARKS THAT HE
% HAD IN MARCH AND THAT MANY
% GOVERNORS AROUND THE COUNTRY HAD
% HAS COME BACK DOWN TO LEVELS
% MUCH CLOSER TO THE NORMAL LEVEL
% OF HIS SUPPORT BEFORE THE
% EPIDEMIC ARRIVED.
% >> ALL RIGHT.
% CHARLES, WE LEAVE IT THERE.
% BOY, YOU KNOW THESE NUMBERS IN
% THIS POLL AND YOU HAD A LOT OF
% QUESTIONS IN THIS POLL.
% NICE TO HAVE YOU.
% >> THA