Good evening from the Athletic Center at the university of massachusetts in boston, im jim lehrer of the news hour on pbs and i welcome you to the first of three 90minute debates between the democratic. Candidate for president , Vice President al gore, and the republican candidate governor george w. Bush of texas. The debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates and they will be conducted within formats and rules agreed toby the commission and the two campaigns. Tonight well have the candidates at podiums. No answer to a question can exceed two minutes. Rebuttals are limited to one minute. But as moderator i have the option to followup and extend any particular give and take another three and a half minutes. Even then no single answer can exceed two minutes. The candidates under their rules may not question each other directly. There will be no Opening Statements but each candidate may have up to two minutes for a closing statement. The questions and the subjects we
Ongoing trump threatens to go to the Supremes Court to try to stop the counting biden has threatened to counter legal action. And with both candidates aged over 70 we take a look at how their running mates are now more important than ever. While the race to the white house has become incredibly tight hours after the polls closed no candidate has secured enough Electoral College votes to win but that hasnt stopped both candidates being confident of victory despite millions of votes still uncounted donald trump has threatened to go to the Supremes Court something that bidens team have said they are ready to challenge the total vote count could take days while we have a team of reporters for you on the ground at this hour rob reynolds is monitoring developments from Los Angeles Mike hanna is in bidens home state delaware and our white house. Correspondent candy how it is in washington d. C. That fast. Takes a look at just how these last few hours have unfold. Shortly after 2 am on wednesd
Good evening from the Clark Athletic Center at the university of massachusetts in boston. Im jim lehrer of the news hour on pbs and i welcome you to the debate between the democratic candidate for president , Vice President al gore and the republican candidate, governor george w. Bush of texas. They will be conducted within for th formats agreed to by the two campaigns. No answer to a question can exceed two minutes, rebuttals are limited to one minute. But as moderator, i have the option to follow up and extend any particular give and take 3 1 2 minutes. No single answer can exceed two minutes. The candidates under their may not question each other directly. There will be no Opening Statements but each candidate may have up to two minutes for a closing statement. The questions and the subjects were chosen by me alone. I have told no one from the two campaigns or the commission or anyone else involved what they are. Theres a small audience in the hall tonight. They are not here to part
For changes that make things a little more convenient for the boaters sounds good at least the last part of it the convenience or Catherine Heenan host of inside bay area politics talk to an expert about that a captain at you know a grant of income people still have a lot of questions of course we know. Lots and lots of people are voting early both in person by mail. This was the scene in San Francisco recently but what happens to those ballots being returned before election day. If you return one early does that mean it will be counted early well, generally, yes, we talk to somebody with the Santa Clara County registrar of voters office. Boats come in and that person happens below biz scanned thats the signature area is scanned. That signature is compared many only by human eyes. To what we have on file and if the signatures match and then the humble of goes to the pass as they call it where it is open and the ballots are removed now we we do process the ballots before the close of po
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