Hello from Washington, Sorda. I'm Chuck Todd and this is the Chuck Todd cast today in

the show, the 2020 election takes place in just 167 days and there are still plenty of

unknowns about how it's going to play out. One of the biggest questions, how are people

going to vote? Wednesday morning, the president tweeted that Nevada and Michigan illegally

sent out absentee ballots for the general election in November. He said it would encourage

a quote, great voter fraud scenario. They threatened to withhold federal funding to some

states if they didn't reverse course. Many states embracing vote by mail and by the way,

Michigan they sent out applications, not the ballots themselves. But with many states

embracing vote by mail, including six crucial swing states, we're going to talk about the

challenges of mail and voting also on the show. All 50 states are now opening up in some form

or another in some ways. We've been talking about the pandemic through the lens of hot spots

like New York, but at this point, folks in the Northeast are in the minority. When it comes how they

experience the lockdown, joining me today to give us a better look at what's happening across

the country or Charles Benson, reporter and anchor from TMJ4 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the NBC

affiliate in Milwaukee, and Alexa, you're a politics and demographics reporter from the Texas Tribune.

Later in the program, I joined by the only other person in the world that might miss baseball

as much as myself, legendary sports announcer Bob Costas. But first, Charles and Alexa, welcome to

the podcast and Charles, let me start with you since you're in a state with no rules.

I guess it's quite. No, I have kid. Obviously, we've been following that a little bit. But

I say this, I'm not kidding. Basically, in the media and political capitals of the world,

New York and Washington, we're still pretty much locked down. The rest of the country has opened up

and I think that that is going to present sort of a, it's just going to be an unusual

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