Hello from at this point my socially distant guest bedroom.

Just stay out of the way of the rest of the home offices in my house.

I'm Chuck Todd and this is the Chuck Todd cast.

It is poll day.

This hump day here at Mithipress and we've got some big new numbers from the NBC News

Wall Street Journal poll.

And let's just say in short the news is not good for the incumbent.

So joining me today to talk about the president's strategy I guess.

If you can call it that in his long and in windy and winding Rose Garden monologue

Tuesday and what the voters are telling our pollster it's about the 2020 election.

Is Washington Post staff writer Carol Lanick and then later in the show we're going to

talk to former CEO Catherine Gale and Harvard economist Michael Porter about their new

book.

It's called the politics industry how political innovation can break partisan gridlock

and save our democracy.

But first let me start with Carol and Carol you had the pleasure and I think it is a pleasure

to substitute for the two of two.

And I'll be honest with you when I read the two of two Tuesday morning.

It started about the third subhead and it was just this cascading reminder of just how

this pandemic has just impacted so many parts of our society.

It was a subhead on the budget deficit a subhead on the breaking cases.

A subhead on the small business bankruptcy starting to rise up.

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