And i think you owe an explanation to the American People why is it Somebody Just had a News Conference a little while ago who was essentially supposed to work with you and your family but what he said was damning and regardless of me i think you have to clean it up and talk to the American People maybe you can do it right now. Vice President Biden you may respond and then i want to follow up on the election secured i have not taken a penny from any foreign source ever in my life we learned that this president paid 50 times the tax in china has a secret bank account with china does business in china and in fact is talking about me taking money i have not taken a single penny from any country what so ever ever number one number 2 this is a president i released all of my tax returns 22 years go look at them 22 years of my tax return you have not released a single solitary year of your tax returns what are you hiding why are you unwilling to Foreign Countries are paying you a lot russia i
Once again back in the studio welcome to those as well as the listeners. The candidates you will hear from tonight. We will start with one minute Opening Statements from each candidate and then get into the questions alternating who answers first each time and we will end with one minute closing statements. We have a lot to get to. We drew at random to see who goes first and we will start tonight with state senator. A good evening. I am barbara. Im a mother, doctor and state senator. I went into medicine to improve peoples lives and went into Public Service for the same reason. In the legislature of kansas i was known as a leading advocate for fully funding public education, expanding affordable healthcare, balancing the budget and keeping taxes low. I was a woman who stood up to both parties if that needed to be done. And was also willing to work with anyone as long as they were doing what was right for kansas. And that is exactly what i will do in the United States senate. Roger mars
In the texas 32nd congressional district, the incumbent democrat faces this challenger. They rate this race likely democratic. Democratic. Just want to review the rules of it. They are fairly simple. Two minutes for Opening Statements from the candidates. Nd for questions there will be a 92nd response for each candidate and a 45 second rebuttal for each candidate. Any further response or followup will be up to me. There the timekeeping, will be about four boxes on the one of those will have questions for use in this debate. When the candidate gets down to about 15 seconds left in their answer, that box will turn yellow. It will time is up, turn red. We will also have one minute closing statements in reverse order of opening. So, in keeping with the agreement reached between the two candidates, the opening genevievewill go to collins. Ms. Collins good evening. Thank you for hosting us. Thank you to the congressman for joining me and being flexible. Thank you to all of you for tuning in.
This is a partnership between public media, the league of women voters. Civic Engagement Center and history, philosophy and social science department, and the vote everywhere initiative. Our candidates our democratic nominee and incumbent congressman. Early voting begins this weekend and election day is november 3rd and absentee ballots are already in the mail. Voting access has been expanded this year to address concerns amidst the pandemic and here are the ground rules each candidate has one minute for opening and closing statements. The first position will go to mr. Price. We are still taking questions from the voters and candidates will take turns answering questions. Each candidate has two minutes per answer. As moderator i reserve the privilege to add a followup question if i feel the answer isnt clear. No candidate has seen the questions of the candidate exceeds the time limit i will alert them by ringing the bell like so. If you have a question to submit, we are monitoring twit
Television. You look at some of the results in wisconsin, so, you know, whether im up one or down one, it is right in the thing. I think were going to win wisconsin because we have a lot of people we dont want to talk to you. They go vote for trump, right . The hidden voter, whatever they call them. Somebody said theyre the shy voters. My people are not shy. [cheering] but, in wisconsin neil were monitoring the president right now, part of a whirlwind tour today that will take no fewer than five different cities today. President speaking in North Carolina. To the right of your screen, joe biden has just started speaking in cleveland. To be fair, were scrupulous about this well continue with the president another ten minutes or so. Try to give the same amount of time to joe biden right afterwards. We resume with the president of the United States. Now the real number, you know i could lose it. I could win it. I dont know i did a lot of good things for wisconsin, lets say it is even. I c