Early voting is about to start in a very contentious and unusual election season. On Sept. 6, voters in the battleground state of North Carolina can start mailing in their ballots; two dozen more states will join them as we roll through September.
So far, we’ve had one presidential debate, after which the incumbent was pressured to drop out, ultimately handing over his campaign to the vice president. While that plot twist was playing out on the public stage, the former president escaped assassination by mere millimeters, showing up to accept his party’s nomination days later, his grazed ear still in bandages. At this point, surprises seem to be a given.
While everyone’s busy reading the polls like tea leaves, we’re going to jump ahead and look past the election. We can do that because it’s probably pretty safe to say that post-Nov. 5, or whenever we know the final results, half the country will be elated and the other half convinced it’s the end of the Republic as we know it—and this isn’t a good place to be.
So, for this edition of International Reporters Roundtable, W. Bruce Lee, executive director of the Phoenix Correspondence Commission; Robin Biro, Democratic strategist and former Obama regional campaign director; and Mark Tapscott, senior congressional correspondent for The Epoch Times, join us to try to solve political division in America.