Spirit this debate will not be like others. Our candidates join us remotely. After several days of confirmation hearings, miss greenfield is live from altoona. Matt breen anchors the evening news, the chief politics reporter for the Des Moines Register and ron steele is evening news anchor in waterloo. Senator joni ernst running for her second term in u. S. Senate, native of iowa answer for 23 years, normally the first woman in iowa to serve in federal office but the first female veteran elected to serve in the u. S. Senate. Teresa greenfield, raised on a small harmon soda, moved to iowa to attend college, has a background in planning and real estate and development in iowa. In 2018 she briefly ran for congress, she was in the morning with her husband. For the rules of the debate, candidates get 50 seconds to answer a question. Of the candidate is mentioned by name she will get 30 seconds to respond. The yellow light indicates 10 seconds remain. Candidates get 60 seconds for closing st
Representative, spoke with a group of volunteers supporting his campaign, and delivered brief remarks. This is 20 minutes. [indiscernible conversations] ill tell you what, man. You guys have done one heck of a job. In addition to that [indiscernible]. [cheer and applause] the number they gave me are almost hard to believe. Sounding. Tell us the numbers. Youve got people knocking on 250,000 doors. So far. Youve gotten more volunteers, more people engaged. It feel out there . Its great. For real. Ill tell you what. Youre doing more of your civic duty. Theres a lot at stake here. She gave me a passport to come into the district. [laughter] i spoke to the congresswoman before i came in. [inaudible] ill tell you what, man. Look, i will say a few things for the press and a little bit. But the fact of the matter is, this president s chief of staff, they have given up. This president and chief of staff, they have given up. All these super spreaders going on. I wish i could shake each one of yo
If there is a change in administration after november 3 . Brendan thank you so much, peter, for having us on. There are five of us. We serve staggered terms. Every year, one member of the commission is up for renomination confirmation by the senate. And that process continues irrespective of the outcome of the election. For instance, my term runs through 2023. And i can hold over for a longer period of time and i will continue to serve regardless of the outcome of the election. Rep. Lee peter and with Michael Orielly not being renominated by the president , if there were a change in the administration, you and sherman pie would be the two chairman pie would be the two republicans, correct . Brendan thats right. Michael orielly has served for a long time. His term expired a year and a half ago. Were allowed to stay on until the end of this congress. When were in this situation, that will push his term will come to an end. Commissioner pye and myself will continue to serve. Peter now to
Votes in the democrat running for a second term against Burgess Owens. Live coverage on cspan2. Tonight we will hear from the incumbent democratic congressman then mcadams and his republik and challenger, mr. Burgess owens. The safety of all involved in the debate process we are hearing the social distancing guidelines and there is no studio audience. The Debate Commission has established a format that allows each candidate one, two minutes for the initial reply to a question. I will then direct followup response to then questions. I will be taking questions from members of the news media, students from salt lake Unity College and from members of the viewing audience participating on social media. Prior to the debate a virtual coin toss determined that Burgess Owens will provide the initial response to the first question. We will alternate who answers first on the remaining questions. Lets get right to it. Mr. Owens, welcome. Good to see you. We wanted to, we wanted to let voters see s
The 2020 election. And everybodys mind, i am looking at you on the screen. Will the election be over at 12 00 so i can go to sleep at 12 00 knowing who the next president is . You are on news. I apologize. The potential for long delays you can be assured sometime on election night, that certainty will grow, it goes on for months and months, the oval office, beginning late january this coming year, dont think that is going to be the case. You disagree with that. I dont disagree. I dont think you will get your midnight wish because of the volume of absentee ballots and the fact that we need a few states in the mountain and pacific time zones, but i do think there will be a clear idea of a winner by friday morning. Last time in the year 2000, the famous bush versus gore decision and case. It had usually been the case state courts were the ones that result election issues. In that situation federal courts got involved. Would you expect if there were any disputes the bush versus gore preced