Drop them in the chat room. Voting is on everyones mind at the moment in with the coronavirus especially more voters than ever are trying mailin ballots are voting early and as we are talking about our usual voting methods so many things have moved to on line and people are asking will voting become digital as well . I want to start the conversation by asking why would you even want to on line voting and i will say im coming from Seattle Washington where we have a robust mailin ballots system and its quite easy. I think the appeal is enormous. In theory its largely been attempted in this country for military servicemembers and it could be used for people with disabilities who f dont have a lot of access to the polls. I think if we somehow had a robust on line Voting System that would drastically increase participation and the bigger question than how we would get there. This country doesnt have great numbers of people who show up on election day and many people are so engaged. They are
Theres efforts to wrap it up. It will not get there when we first have first doses of vaccines. So the real issue is if that is locked up in advance which currently it is being still locked up by wealthy nations, the multilateral initiated by the time it gets the resources to compete will not have so the challenge we have is most of the vaccine manufacturing in these advanced purchasing agreement are in these large and merrily wealthy nations but not exclusively you if they are willing to play ball in sharon early doses the rest of the world will wake potentially months or a year or longer to receive the vaccine they need to protect their Health Workers and most vulnerable populations and that will leave a legacy that isnt just about thishad. It will undermine Global Cooperation on a host of other issues. If we cant cooperate in this situation on it sharing a vaccine, what hope do we have to cooperate on climate change, what hope do we have on otherproblems and with that ill stop and l
2020 democratic president ial candidate joe biden. Hello philadelphia. Man, it is good to be back in pennsylvania. What beautiful weather weve got here. A Little Indian summer. I know the president s spent sometime in erie last night. Apparently he complain about having to travel here. Then he cut the event short, poor guy. I dont feelthat way. I love coming to pennsylvania. You guys delivered for me twice and i am back here tonight to ask you to deliver the white house or joe biden and Kamala Harris. I want to thank mister philadelphia, charlie mack. His daughter, india marie riyadh what an Outstanding Young lady she was. Those of you who are fathers and have daughters, you know how that feels when you see your daughters just shining. I know a little bit aboutthat. It was great to see representative Brandon Boyle , mary scanlon, governor tom wolfe, attorney general josh hero and jim kennedy. Philadelphia, we got 13 days. Thats our lucky number right here. 13 days until the most import
President ial candidates. And tal kopan has covered Kamala Harris as a correspondent for the San Francisco chronicle. How much do you think senator harris is going to be introducing herself still to voters when she steps on the debate stage tonight . Guest certainly a large part. Obviously there are viewers who , tune into cspan, we feel like we know her. There is still probably a Large Population out there that may not. There are still folks who do not tune into the president ial election until after labor day. I went back in preparing for this appearance and looked at the piece i wrote for her first debate in the President Shall primary. That was exactly what her campaign was telling me at the time, that was her opportunity to introduce herself to america. The more people get to know her, the more people like her. I completely imagine that is going to be part of the game plan tonight as well. Of course, adding into that is drawing a contrast with the Trump Administration for those wh
Inskeep. Good evening welcome to tonights debate provides our democrat Kate Schroder are republicans so they have will discuss many issues affecting not only ohios but the entire tristate. We will talk more about tonight more about tonights format in just a moment but first id like to introduce the panelists the ones asking the questions asking the questions and i. Their Cincinnati Business Courier reporter and columnist Chris Wetterich and yes on 22 do the presidency of the cincinnati usa Regional Chamber and eddie koen is the ceo of the urban league of greater southwestern ohio. Thereve been changes over the years so this is what ohios First District currently looks like. It comprises of a swath of northern and northeastern Hamilton County and all of orange county. Because of covid19 the traditional opening handshake is not being observed tonight but we do want to thank Kate Schroder and steve chabot for being with us and taking part in this exchange of ideas by want to tell you a li