Candidate for president , Vice President al gore, and the republican candidate, governor george w. Bush of texas. Lets welcome the candidates now. Before proceeding tonight we would like to observe a moment of silence in memory of governor mel carnahan of missouri, who along with his son and his former chief of staff, died in a private plane crash last night near st. Louis. A reminder, as we continue now, that these debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates. The formats and the rules were worked out by the commission and the two campaigns. Tonights questions will be asked by st. Louis area voters who were identified as being uncommitted by the gallup organization. Earlier today each of them wrote a question on a small card like this. Those cards were collected and then given to me this afternoon. My job, under the rules of the evening, was to decide the order the questions will be asked and to call on the questioners accordingly. I also have the option of asking
Walker, then it was a mad scramble to get on ballot lines. We started with the green party having the 21 state battle lines and left 30 more petitions to do and we were appealing the state governments for relief during the covid pandemic because it was against Public Health guidelines to be out there physically asking for petitions and when we did we looked like hazmat workers with gloves and visors and masks and disinfectant. It was a mad scramble to get on the ballot and in the end we got on 30 ballots representing 73 of the voters, 381 electoral votes, you need 270 to win. And then you count the writein states were on and were 96 of the voters and 514 potential electorate votes out of a possible 538. That was july and august. Even more difficult barrier is getting in the National Media dialogue about the campaign. We get in on a lot of local media when we show up but in terms of the network news, the big newspapers, the cable news, weve been blanked out. And so thats a big frustrati
Welcome you to this third and final campaign 2000 debate between the democratic candidate of president , and Vice President al gore, and the republican candidate governor george w. Bush of texas, and lets welcome the candidates now. Hello. Hello, jim. Good to see you. Governor. Good to see you both. Nice to see you again. How are you all . Before proceeding tonight, we would like to observe a moment of silence in memory of governor mel carnahan of missouri along with his son and former chief of staff died in a private plane crash last night near st. Louis. A reminder, as we continue now, that these debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates. The formats and the rules were worked out by the commission and the two campaigns. Tonights questions will be asked by st. Louis area voters who were identified as being uncommitted by the gallup organization. Earlier today, each of them wrote a question on a small card like this. Those cards were collected and then given to m
Meanwhile divided america is deeper and more entrenched in its divide. So i am going to ask Fox News Contributor alveda king how do we avoid perishing together like fools. All that and so much more on making money. Charles were anxiously awaiting any comments from either side as the Election Results hang in the balance. We do want to go right away to Hillary Vaughn in delaware. Hillary, very latest . Charles, breaking right now the Trump Campaign just filed a lawsuit in michigan bus they say theyre not getting enough access to information and data that is guaranteed under michigan election laws. They filed the lawsuit saying that ballots should stop being counted until they get that access. Still this morning both campaigns say they still see a path to 270. Even though were waiting for final calls for key battleground states like michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania. This morning the Biden Campaign is going ahead and doing a victory lap. Were winning the election. Weve won the election. A
A recount and finds lawsuits as he has promised to victory now rules the outcome of the election now hinges on 4 battleground states where mainly postal votes are being tapped and in other news this hour the u. N. Calls for an immediate deescalation in tensions as ethiopias Prime Minister calls in troops following an attack on a military base in the teeth ray beach. Thank you very much for joining us so we begin in the United States way joe biden is pulling ahead in the race for the white house we cannot project away in for biden in the key battleground state of michigan its one of these socalled rust belt states that donald trump won in 2016 helping him deliver the presidency now within the past couple of hours the democrats also flipped neighboring wisconsin. Which donald trump narrowly won 4 years ago and that means that biden now has a total of 264 Electoral College votes while donald trump has 214 remember the magic number of course to become president is 217 now here in yellow yo