Democrats Walter Mondale and congresswoman ferraro in the general election, winning the popular vote 59 41 . Ms. Ferraro was the first woman nominated for the vice presidency by a major party. This debate from philadelphia is just under an hour and a half. [applause] dorothy good evening. Good evening from the civic center in philadelphia, pennsylvania. I am the president of the league of women voters, sponsor of tonights Vice President ial debate between republican george bush and democrat geraldine ferraro. Our panelists for tonights debate are john mashek, National Correspondent for u. S. News world report, jack white, correspondent for time magazine, norma quarles, correspondent for nbc news, and robert boyd, Washington Bureau chief for knightridder newspapers. Sandra van ocher, Political Correspondent for abc news, is our moderator tonight. Sandy. Sandy thank you, dorothy. A few words about the order of the format. The order of questioning was determined by a toss of the coin. Con
Imposed this weekend as germany reports a Record Number of daily cases and the European Union awards its top human rights prize to the belushis Opposition Movement will get the latest on the fight for democracy and an end to repression in the country. Where i thank you so much for your Company Everyone will we start the broadcast in the u. S. Where President Donald Trump and his democratic rival joe biden are poised to face off on television for the 2nd and final time the 2 candidates are set to share the stage tonight in nashville tennessee after a fiery 1st debate last month joe biden has a healthy lead in opinion polls ahead of tonights contest and hes getting a fresh show of support from none other than former president obama. Hello philadelphia. She is home says the former u. S. President barack obama at a drive in rally as he hit the campaign trail for joe biden democratic nominee and his former Vice President even though many opinion polls show biden in the lead obama raised the
You today by your television provider. And i come here tonight to the alsmith dinner knowing im the underdog in these final weeks. If you know where to look, there are signs of hope, theres signs of hope, even in the most unexpected places, even in this room, full of proud manhattan democrats, i cant i cant shake that feeling that some people here are pulling for me. Im delighted to see you here tonight, hillary. I was thrilled to get this invitation. And i feel right at home here because its often been said that i share the politics of alfred e. Smith and the ears of alfred e. Newman. It is an honor to be here with al smith. I obviously never knew your great grandfather but from everything that senator mccain has told me the two of them had a great time together before prohibition. So of course i am delighted. But not surprised by the final repeal of the 18th amendment. I felt all along that when this matter was properly submitted to the rank and file of our people they would readily
John is. Desperate scenes in turkeys izmir province as rescuers continue their frantic search for survivors following the earthquake thats killed dozens. Of the original james bond sean connery has died well take a look at his extraordinary career. We begin though with that breaking news from france an orthodox priest has been shot and wounded in leone the priest was fired on twice as he was closing the church reportedly fled the scene that follows the killing of 3 people at a church in nice on thursday david chase is in nice hes with us now david took us through what we know of what happened earlier in. Yes this happened at the Greek Orthodox church in leo the priest was just closing the doors locking up when an assailant approached with a sawn off shotgun and let 2 shots off into his abdomen neighbors heard those explosions. And then they heard the screaming of the priest the assailant then ran away without saying anything to the priest the police moved in very quickly they had to tr
Youre looking at some of the images from the 1884 election and listening to songs in support of james g. Blaine of maine and his running mate, john logan. Tonight our series continues and were live in the home of james g. Blaine, and since 1920, the official residence of maines governor. Were inside the blaine house with maines sitting governor. Do you have a sense of the man while youre here . Absolutely. Welcome to maine and welcome to the peoples house. Mr. Blaine is here every day and we see his spirit every evening, because we always say good night to him. What is your sense of living the house was built many years ago, many people have lived in it over the years, but he really is president in a lot of ways. What have you come to learn about the man by living in his midst . He not only was a very strong supporter and founder of the Republican Party in maine but a national leader, and started maine on its course to where we are now. And very, very influential both in the press, in