Activists Leah Greenberg and Lori Goldman on the Election

LORI GOLDMAN, FOUNDER, FEMS FOR DEMS: The women that I know, and they run in the thousands, and you can call us housewives, you can call us suburban, you can call us just women, we don’t care what you call us. We’re not stupid, and they are not stupid, and they don’t even care what he says anymore. We’re focused on the prize which is November the 3rd. So, we don’t care what the president trots out to his acolytes, to the people that are star-struck and following him blindly. We’re women. It’s been hundreds of years since we’ve had our due. In fact, since the start of the world, and we’re going to do what we want right now and keep going.

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Let me turn to Leah. Back to you, Leah, now that we have your sound. As I was saying, you heard the president say, this is the first time I’m saying that maybe we have a path to victory. I might not have the said it a few weeks ago. And his campaign manager is at least briefing the press on what he wants them to hear, which is that he believes that the president has a path to that 270 electoral college magic number. What are you hearing on the street with your grass roots action group? What are you sort of tapping into right now?

LEAH GREENBERG, CO-FOUNDER, INDIVISIBLE: Well, what we’re hearing when we do voter outreach is very much along the lines of what Lori said, people are tired and they are determined. They are tired of this administration. They are tired of the divisiveness. They are tired of the hatefulness. They are tired of the fact that they seem to be doing everything that they can to actively prolong the national ordeal that we’re experiencing with COVID and they are determined. We talked to a lot of voters who are grateful to have information about how to vote but they are so fired up and so ready to vote they want to vote yesterday. So, what we’re seeing is an unprecedented level of enthusiasm for voting this cycle and I think you’re seeing that as well in the early voting totals.

AMANPOUR: And in terms of the voter registration, there are lots of anecdotal and polling information that shows that the Republicans seem to be targeting right now very heavily more and more voters to register. How are you seeing that play out in the neighborhoods where — I know you’re a Democratic activist, but you must know what the other camp is doing.

GREENBERG: Sure, and obviously you would rather see those totals be higher rather than lower for the Democratic side. That said, I think that’s one stat among a lot that we are trying to put in context to understand the whole picture of what’s going on. And one of the things we’re seeing a lot of those voters, when you look at places like the Florida Panhandle, right, those are people who — they switched from being Democrats to Republicans a while ago in their voting patterns, and they are actually just now getting around to formalizing their party status. So, those are people who — they voted for Trump in 2016 and they have been factored into a lot of folks political analysis of what’s going on at the moment. And so, while it is — while it’s not the best stat, we want to look at the full picture of enthusiasm of how — who’s turning out and how and the polls to make it make sense.