On your that this senator kay hagan, a democratic candidate for the United States senate. Shes currently a u. S. Senator from North Carolina. Welcome to you, senator hagan. Before we begin, here are the rules for the debate. We will start with Opening Statements. Following this, the candidates will respond to questions that have been provided by members of the state broadcast news media along with input from me. We want you to know that order of the opening and closing statements and which candidate gets the first question will were determined and agreed to prior to this debate by the candidates and their campaign. Speaker tillis will make the first Opening Statement and will also receive the first question. Lets begin. Thank you. It is time for somebody in North Carolina to Cross Party Lines and finally get something done in this country. Voting 92 with the president , whether you agree with them or not, doesnt work here and North Carolina. Kay hagan said that in 2008. Then she got el
Country. We hope we have raised awareness and pointed to some solutions, help that process of getting ready for what is going to happen to us as a country over the next 10 years. Thank you very much. [applause] consumer advocate and former president ial candidate ralph nader and Grover Norquist will discuss bipartisanship. Live Coverage Today from the National Press club at 1 00 p. M. Eastern. Later in the day, former officials from the bush and Obama Administration will talk about terrorist threats to the u. S. Live coverage from the Mccain Institute starts at 5 45 eastern. Now, North Carolina senator kay hagan faces challenger thom tillis. Senator hagan defeated Elizabeth Dole in 2008. Mr. Tillis is the speaker of the North Carolina house of representatives. This debate is courtesy of the North Carolina association of broadcasters, moderated by morrow donnell of cbs news. Good evening and thank you for joining us for the first of two North Carolina association of broadcasters Educati
People tell me they dont want to go back to the broken system. They want us to fix and improve this law, and that is exactly what i am doing. But when i look at what speaker tillis does, he was to repeal this law. He would take as act to that broken system when seniors would back to that broken system when seniors would pay more further coverage than men im sorry, women would pay more, seniors would pay more than theyre paying today. Their prescriptions would the more. If you have a preexisting condition, forget about the availability of health care. That is not what our seniors for the or the American People other thing speaker tillis would support, a budget that would turned medicare into a Voucher Program. Seniors, this would mean Financial Insecurity, higher outofpocket costs, and it would certainly take our seniors back. It is not medicare turning it into a Voucher Program is not good for our seniors. I dont think speaker tillis understands the needs of the American People. What w
Direction in the fight against coronavirus. Dr. Fauci is warning against those pushing to lift restrictions in a move toward herd immunity. Watch. If you just let things rip and let the infection go, no masks, crowd, it doesnt make any difference, that, quite frankly, george, is ridiculous because what that will do is that there will be so many people in the community that you cant shelter, that you cant protect, who are going to get sick and get serious consequences. And despite the cdc warnings of even small gatherings, things like our thanksgiving dinners, the president is holding massive rallies with few in attendance wearing masks. Another one planned for just hours from now. Later tonight no debate but there will be dueling town halls, the president and joe biden set to take questions, make their case to voters as we close in on election day. First lets get to cnns adrienne broaddus, she is in wisconsin for more on the rising number of new infections there and also sadly across m
President trump from holding very large gatherings and defying the White House Coronavirus task force. He held this rally in iowa in front of thousands of people, a largely unmasked crowd. In iowa, one in five people tested are now testing positive for the virus. Just think about that for a second. Dr. Fauci is basically telling us we might have to cancel thanksgiving, but the president s appearing with thousands of people in a packed rally. Just think about that. More than 14 million americans have already cast their ballots. We saw another day of very long lines for early voting across the country. Former president barack obama speaking out in a new interview about President Trump and joe biden. The former president expected to hit the campaign trail for biden next week. Lets begin, though, with the pandemic. Cnn chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta joins me now. Sanjay, maybe its because you trained me, its the hospitalization numbers that we have seen every morning that hav