Good morning, im dominic chu. It is your money, your vote. Brian are s Brian Sullivan is live in grand rapids first, the dow implied higher by just around 100 and so points here the dow coming off more than 420 point gain to kick off another month after its worst week since march. The s p 500 also higher by more than a percent just yesterday. We are also watching the treasury side of the equation as well yields holding relatively steady at least for this time being around the world, a sharply higher session overnight in asia with the hang seng and kospi posting near 2 gains. You can see there on the map a very positive day generally speaking for asia. And green also on the european side of things with 2 gains for the cac in france and nearly 2 for the german dax and ftse 100. But back to the campaign trail and the future of the american presidency and congress now in the hands of us, the electorate amid record breaking early voting and key state Supreme Court ruling in texas, the candi
Just a reminder, if you have questions as we chat, feel free to drop them into the chat below. Voting is on everyones mind at the moment, and with coronavirus, more voters than ever are trying mailin ballots or voting early. Ith coronavirus, more voters than ever are trying mailin ballots or voting early. Alternatives to our usual voting methods, a lot of people are asking will voting become digital, as well . Thent to kick off conversation by asking, why would we even want online voting . My bias is coming from seattle where we have a robust mailin ballot system, and the process is already quite easy. Im curious what the conversation would look like around, why do we need this kind of technology . I think the appeal is in normas. Is enormous. In theory, it has largely been attempted in this country for military deployed service members. It could be used for people with disabilities who dont have a lot of ease getting to the polls. If we somehow had a robust online Voting System, it wo
, imod evening, everybody executive director of the women in Politics Institute at. Merican university in welcome were really glad that you could join us for this discussion. With less than two weeks to go, we want to get an update on the work that several republican groups are doing. If you weeks ago, we got an update on the democratic side. We are looking forward to hearing from women on the other side of the aisle. We are excited to have with us julie conway who is executive ac, and rebecca schumer. Thank you for being here. We start, i want to let everybody know that at bottom of your screen, you will notice a button to ask a question. Duringfeel free to do so the course of our discussion and you will also be able to upload other peoples questions that youre interested in. And if you missed any of the discussion, replay will be available at the same place you used to register. Lets rewind the clock a bit the 2018, the 2018 midterms. Elected, onlyen one was republican and the total
Debates. This marks their first joint on camera performance ahead of the 2020 general election president ial debate. Many americans have studied the legendary lincolndouglas debates in 1858 which were not president ial debates but rather for a u. S. Senate seat. The candidates met facetoface seven times, and the subsequent election was won by stephen douglas, and that set the stage for abraham lincolns Successful Campaign for the presidency in 1860. 100 two years after those debates on september 20 6, 1960 at the cbs studios in chicago, senator john f. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon came together in the firstever general election president ial debate, a televise affair that change the nature of politics. Mr. Kennedy and mr. Nixon debated four times in 1960, and john f. Kennedy went on to win the presidency by a slim margin. Looking back, mr. Nixon said, i should have remembered a picture is worth a thousand words. Those debates was sponsored by the three major networks, cbs,
Official to contract covid. How has that affected your response to the crisis . i think i was the second or third case in all of gate county, which has now experienced tens of thousands of cases since then. And it was interesting and in many ways instructive for me. Number one, i had to be quarantined for 18 days, but was able to continue to function as thingsnd was able to do like establish a diary to give people hope that if they did contract covid 19, and take yourself back to early march, when there was so much unknown about covid19, so much for your but the possibility of getting it, that it gave people tremendous comfort to know that someone was documenting their everyday experience with it. And the second part is, i was very asymptomatic. I was asymptomatic before i was i wouldand my symptoms, classify as mild throughout. I never got over a 100 degree temperature. I had a couple of body aches and pains, some stuffiness, but other than that, it was a relatively mild circumstance,