The audience is required to wear a space mask and the candidates will be seated 12 feet apart. The audience is enthusiastic but theyve agreed to express that enthusiasm only twice, at the end of the debate, and now when i introduce the candidates. Please welcome california senator Kamala Harris and Vice President mike pence. [ cheering and applause ] thank you. Senator harris and Vice President pence, thank you for being here. Were meeting as President Trump and the first lady continue to undergo treatment in washington after testing positive for covid19. We send our thoughts and prayers to them for their rapid and complete recovery and for the recovery of everyone afflicted by the coronavirus. The two campaigns and the commission on president ial debates have agreed to the ground rules for tonight. Im here to enforce them on the behalf of the millions americans who are watching. One note, no one in either campaign or at the commission or anywhere else has been told in advance what top
Washington tonight. After watching Kamala Harris i thought to myself no wonder joe biden headed to gettysburg on monday great he was babbling on their about the need for national unity. He had the nice guy approach. That was all an effort to convince you that democrats still believe in americas history and our tradition. But what you saw tonight from a hottie, indignant Kamala Harris was what the Biden Campaign has been to writing dont like trying to hide. But the democrats are now the party of radicals, by radicals, and for radicals. Kamala harris struggled to lie away bidens real agenda on lockdowns and its true plan to, for instance, abolished the fossil fuel industry. You know, theres a very good chance that if biden wins, the woman you saw tonight will become president of the united states. Yet she refuses to answer multiple, easy, basic questions. How would you describe our fundamental relationship with china . Are we competitors, adversaries, enemies russian mark susan, the jump
Reminders of how the coronavirus continues to ravage our country uncontrolled including at the white house where lets not forget the infected president who had to be hospitalized today returned to the oval office and posted a video calling his illness a blessing in disguise and talking about a cure. Tonights debate was much more civil than we saw last week, but this administrations response to this virus still came under heavy fire. The American People have witnessed what is the greatest failure of any president ial administration in the history of our country. From the very first day, President Donald Trump has put the health of america first. When you look at the biden plan, it reads an awful lot like what President Trump and i and the task force have been doing every step of the way. And frankly when i look at their plan talks about advancing testing, creating new ppe, developing a vaccine, it looks a little bit like plagiarism, which is something joe biden knows a little bit about.
Hold their Holding Areas and get micd up and ready to go. Lets get final update from correspondent jacqui heinrich. Good evening, bret, as you mention about the candidates are here, theyve done their walkthroughs in the next time we will see them will be on the stage in about 15 minutes. Senator harris has a couple of guests with her, a fulltime teacher who is also a veteran and also a state rep who works as a Community Organizer focusing on helping people affected by coronavirus. She is really going to focus on the virus tonight after President Trump but all that video saying he was cured by regeneron and experimental drug not available to most americans, the dnc slammed pants, saying he peddled the president flies and the Biden Campaign also resumed their negative ads in part saying they want to combat those lies. Vice president pence also had some guests with him. He brought the parents of a humanitarian aid worker who was killed by isis, to thank President Trump for killing albaghd
A Supreme Court vacancy they could really reshape the long run. Chris we are in the quiet once before the debate begins. The thoughts about what we are going to see tonight we are jus get ready to ask the first question. The first question is always an important moment. He reminds me of ronald reagan. Its going to be very interesting to watch to theory good politicians with two very different styles. Sometimes these of the moments of your member from these things. S. Ho they are. And a lot of history of moments in the media forming these soundbites. He had a bad night and did not make a big difference in the e end. It seems to me that they are ahead and no mistakes is going to be the best outcome for her. There is a saying. If you want to see her you have to see her. You could also be on the stage someday. This could make a difference as we see in the poll in the first couple of days. That expanded their needs in th national polls. We are still 27 days from this election. A lot can cha