A seasoned washington veteran so let us cross now to salt lake city. But unfortunately it looks like they have not yet taken the stage but you can see there the set up that they have youve got 2 desks spaced apart plexiglas between the 2 next to each desk. Yeah which is something that was actually quite contentious coming into this debate was the question of what kind of coronavirus measures were going to be in place to protect both candidates well both Vice President mike pence and harris from coronavirus stacey what was the debate there over the last barriers. And his team did im sorry of course biden harris wanted the up but mike pence his team scoffed at the idea that there is no proof that this provides any kind of protection and his Main Communications person said that harris is free to build a fortress around herself if she wants to but but his camp with not interested in that and then they wound up caving which i mean why make it more of an issue but interesting because pay ten
Heres what we can expect tonight in these covid times. For the first time ever, plexiglass will separate mike pence and Kamala Harris on stage. The candidates will be separated by a bit more than 12 feet apart. Tonights moderator, susan page of usa today, is not prerelease topics. The Debate Commission says there will be nine segments about 10 minutes each. Lets bring in tom bevan, president and cofounder of real clear politics. Tom, good evening and welcome back to our coverage. A little more than a week later. Lets start with the Vice President. What is mike pences challenge tonight . Hes got a tall order. I think mike pence is going to have to be very, very sharp. Hes got to present a robust defense of the Trump Administrations record. He has to present a forwardlooking vision as to what the Trump Administrations will do if they were given another four years. He has to press Kamala Harris on the questions that the campaign has not answered. Does she and joe biden support packing the
Speaker pelosi and secretary mnuchin set to talk this morning after House Democrats roll out a new scaled down pandemic aid bill and calling it a propagator of disinformation, why the Biden Campaign is blasting facebook ahead of tonights president ial debate jim, david, good to see you guys, welcome back im taken aback, jim, by your tweet a moment ago about stimulus and sort of a fatalist i can view of what the restaurant sector is facing in this country. I will be candid, we ran out of ppp about three months ago, some of us have just decided to pay lots of employees to do nothing and its been its done they had a chance. I think they made a decision that you would have to keep these people on until we had a vaccine, so Neither Party agreed to anything and its too late. Theres nobody to give ppp to for the most part in restaurants except look, the winners were darden in the Small Business side, we know that they were viewed as nonessential, they never snapped back unless they had someth
Susan good evening, from the university of utah in salt lake city, welcome to the first and only Vice President ial debate of 2020, sponsored by the nonpartisan commission on president ial debates. Im susan page of usa today. It is my honor to moderate this debate, an important part of our democracy. In Kingsbury Hall tonight, we have a small and socially distanced audience, we have taken extra precautions during this pandemic. Among other things, everyone in the audience is required to wear a face mask, and the candidates will be seated 12 feet apart. The audience is enthusiastic about their candidates, but they have agreed to express that enthusiasm only twice, at the end of the bait, and now, when i introduced the candidates. Please welcome california senator Kamala Harris and Vice President mike pence. [applause] susan senator harris and Vice President pence, thank you for being here. We are meeting as President Trump and the first lady continue to undergo treatment in washington a
Taken extra precautions during this pandemic. Among other things, everyone in the audience is required to wear a face mask, and the candidates will be seated 12 feet apart. The audience is enthusiastic about their candidates, but they have agreed to express that enthusiasm only twice, at the end of the bait, and now, when i introduced the candidates. Please welcome california senator Kamala Harris and Vice President mike pence. [applause] susan senator harris and Vice President pence, thank you for being here. We are 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 for them for the rapid and complete recovery, and for the recovery of everyone afflicted by the coronavirus. The two campaigns have agreed to the ground rules tonight. Im here to enforce them, on behalf of the millions of americans who are watching. One note, no one in either campaign or at the commission or anywhere