Challenging President Trump for the partys nomination in 2020. Former Massachusetts Governor bill weld and illinois congressman joe walsh were part of a forum hosted by Business Insider. [applause] good evening and welcome to Business Insider 2020 primary debate, im the politics editor anthonyfisher. And im linette lopez. Tonight we will hear from two republicans challenging President Donald Trump for their partys nomination in 2020. Former Massachusetts Governor bill weld and former illinois congressman joe walsh. Business insiders committed to providing candidates of both parties an opportunity to speak with voters and consider ideas and perspectives that dont fit in red or blue boxes. The candidates will answer questions on economics, immigration, climate, Foreign Policy and americas deepening political divide. We want to know why the candidates differ from the president and why they would do a better job. President trump did not respond to our invitation and governor sanford at a s
We are pleased to host governor bill weld on campus. A harvard and oxford governor. Legalan working as counsel for the United States house of judiciary committee. U. S. Nt on to serve as attorney for massachusetts and eventually, attorney general for the Criminal Division. In 1990, he was elected as governor of massachusetts. And in 1994, he was reelected to that position by the largest margin of victory in massachusetts history. Is now running for president under the republican ticket. He is challenging President Trump in the gop primaries we have to clarify that this is a policy event and not a campaign event. Mr. Weld has a history of service to the Republican Party and to his country and the Dartmouth College republicans are proud to host him on campus. Without further ado, governor weld. [applause] weld thank you so much. A great pleasure. I am going to sit by the side here so there is nothing between me and you. I plan to speak for 10 to 15 minutes on my chosen topic which is Cli
Thank you so much. Im going to sit by the side so there is nothing between me and you. I plan to speak for 10 to 15 minutes on my chosen topic which is Climate Change. After that, we will have questions and answers for a slightly longer time than that. Climate change is right at the top of the list of things that i want to do if i am successful in becoming president of the United States. Nots an existential threat only to our country but to the entire planet. Issue is that if the atmospheric temperature rises by a certain amount between now and the middle of the century, it is very likely that the polar ice cap in its entirety would melt which would carry completely catastrophic consequences for the entire world. Many countries would not be able to sustain their populations because of the impact of the colossally problematic weather events. We have already seen that start to happen in the last couple of decades. Worldwided be flooding. All of the glaciers in the world would melt. The m
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