Well, good evening from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and from LS Campus of LSU, and from Washington,

D.C. I'm David Shrubman. I'm the Executive Editor Emeritus of the Post Gazette. It's my

great pleasure to welcome all of you across the country in the Pittsburgh area, ships at sea,

Newfoundland, Montreal, Boston everywhere for this town meeting sponsored by the Post Gazette,

and by Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield to discuss the 2020 election. You know, before we start,

let me say that I've covered elections for the past 40 or so years. Every single, every four years,

we're told by the candidates and by commentators, this is the most important election of our lifetime.

Well, let me just say this actually is the one time when it is the most important election of our

lifetime. And in that context, it's a great pleasure to be able to introduce our other two guests

and colleagues. Sitting there in Louisiana is James Carville, the Raging Cajun, the Democratic

Strategist, a teacher at LSU, and creator of the greatest aphorism about Pennsylvania politics

ever. We'll get to that. That's James over there. He's the one in the hat. And the other

gentleman is Albert Hunt, who for almost 40 years has been my friend, teacher and colleague,

and co-conspirator. He is former Washington Beough Chief of the Wall Street Journal, also a

Bloomberg syndicated columnist for the Hill newspaper, and probably the single most accomplished and

knowledgeable Washington commentator. So we're going to have a conversation here for an hour

about an election that's lasted for what seems like four years. And we're going to talk about the

2016 election, the 2020 election. Maybe we'll talk about 2024. It's got to be better than this one.

And we'll also entertain your questions about halfway through. So if you have questions,

you all know what to do. There's a chat, a Q&A function. Just get on that and we'll talk about,

we'll talk about what you want to talk about first. But first, I want to ask Albert and to ask James

to put this campaign in perspective. You both covered, you both either covered or participated

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