At 9 00 a. M. , headed tonights debate, university of missouris Mitchell Mckinney talks about the history of president ial debates. Host good morning, it is the washington journal for september 29 and your look looking at video at case western reserve theersity, that the site of first president ial debate between President Trump and joe biden. Cspans coverage of that event starts at 8 00. We want to hear from you in this first hour on when it comes to president ial debates, do they matter . Weathering helping you decide or perhaps hearing about candidates positions on policy issues. Heres how to call to let us know. If you support President Trump, 2027488000, if you support joe biden, 2027488001. If you are undecided or support others, it is 2027488002. If you want to text us, do so at 2027488003. cspanwj. Itter pollingeet journal to on president ial debates asking the questions on if they matter. Some of what they found saying more than 70 of americans say the debates wont matter much
Most people say they have already made up their mind and even big events like the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg have not led many to say whether they should change their votes so far. A couple of Opinion Pieces leading up to tonights event, on from the university of californias Mitchell Mckinney will join us later on this morning in the program. He says this, theres argument that the debates are not substantiated and present no new information area if thats the case it makes a compelling case for eliminating them but these accusations are not based on what debate viewers believe but on what political pundits think. Viewers want debatesand the numbers prove it. In 2016 two of the three planes and trump matchups set a viewership record with the first drawn about 84 Million Viewers and the largest viewing audience in the history of the televised debates that began with john f. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960. Theres another viewpoint on the New York Times. Im not lo
Sadly deaths are the lagging indicator youve been in the hospital for x number of days in extreme cases you could be put on oxygen or ventilator. Thats it. Hospitalizations are starting to decline as they appear to be at a steady rend in new york. That could be welcome news indeed. Statewide hospitalizations have been averaging 1996 in april in the latest period versus better than 2250. The trend just the day before. Meanwhile the governor is outlining he said well need an army of tracing investigators to identify people who may have been exposed to the covid19 virus. You keep hearing this, tracers, indicators, who come into contact with those who tested postively for the virus. That is why the testing issue is so big. Were told jeff bezos of amazon, who is on the ad hoc Advisory Board, sort of giving advice to the president how to proceed, if an when to reopen our government, our society, our economy so to speak. He has been saying not until we have many, many more tests going on. Did
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