Gillespie and the lieutenant general. They faced off at the university of virginia. Good evening, and welcome to virginia. Wise, posted by the university of Virginia College of wise and the southwestern Virginia Technology council. I am the evening anchor. Southwed the commonwealth. We have made every possible effort to ensure the fairness of these questions and the Exchange Central to our democracy. The drivers reof review and an effort to advance the public interest. The questionnaire will ask each candidate a question in the by a previously determined coin cost. Candidates will have a rebuttal time which will be counted down on the wa the floor. Time hascandidates expired, i will ask him to yield the floor. Candidates should speak during the designated time and refrained from interrupting each other. Let us begin. [applause] let us welcome our other candidate, x gillespie ed gillespie. Cheering out of your system because i will ask the audience not to apply or make any noise until t
Cspan radio at 20 years where you hear history unfold daily. In the third and final debate for the Virginia Governor seat, republican ed gillespie and democrat Ralph Northman square off. The two debate education, jobs, opioid abuse, Broadband Access and Infrastructure Spending among other topics. This is about an hour. Good evening and welcome to beautiful wise, virginia, for the third and final virginia Gubernatorial Debate of 2017 cohosted by the university of virginias college at wise, the university of virginias school of leadership and Public Policy and the southwestern Virginia Technology council. My name is paul johnson. I am the evening anchor of wcyb and your host for this event. This is carmen foreman of the roanoke times. She covers state politics for the state of virginia. She will be asking questions of the candidates and i will be keeping track of the time. Today we will cover much ground as possible tonight while providing time for the issues affecting southwest virginia
Cleaning. My name is paul johnson. Carmen foreman of the roanoke times. She covers state politics for the university of virginia. She will be asking questions of the candidates, and i will be keeping track of the time. Together, we will work to cover as much ground as possible tonight while providing candidates an opportunity to discuss some of the issues especially affecting southwest virginia and the commonwealth today. We have made every possible effort tonight to ensure the fairness of these questions and the exchanges so central to our democracy. Let me state on the record the ground rules we have agreed to in an effort to advance this conversation. The question seated beside me will ask each candidate a question and an order set by coin toss. We will also have candidate to candidate questions and opening and closing remarks. When the candidates time has expired, i will ask him to yield the floor. Candidates should speak during the designated time and refrain from interrupting eac
Our country. It is a time when they are being turned on their head and when we are reminded on a daily basis the extent to which we cannot take our core values for granted. It is when they are turns back the clock on almost every area of progress to womens rights to you name it. They are increasing tensions and divisions that speaks to part of their ways that really amplifies and inflames the rhetoric. It is more important than ever it gets tarnished. We all know the only time identity politics gets invoked is some how white identity is masked as something that is neutral. The 2016 election with invocation and disparagement, the anti muslim and rhetoric they have been tweeting about the nfl players that are taking a knee and also out of love of country being tarnished as unpatriotic. Dont make any mistake about it. There are deep racial overtones. It is a time of deep polarization. It has been preying on the divisions as part of this strategy at a time when they spent the first nine mo
We are playing to win everywhere and we are investing to win. The key to virginia is we have built a really good field infrastructu infrastructure. His team has been helping folks with tech tools so that we are helping our partners in the eco system. Thats the new dnc. Thats why i feel optimistic moving forward. Again, we dont put our hopes on any one state at any one time. Whether it is Washington State and Senate District and elsewhere. And we are going to keep fighting. We have about 20 minutes to go. Well go next to rick kline. Jeff mason and alex rorty. Two problems on virginia, first the importance that you see from where you sit, is thering in special about this donor class and im wondering if you can talk about what you were trying to do thats different than the old dnc would have done beyond money for tech tools. What is getting done there . The races in new jersey and virginia are important. This is a 13year election cycle race. The next governor of virginia is going to presi