Between for discussion. Based in the coin flip, Collin Peterson will go first on his Opening Statement. Torgerson peterson. Good evening matt, hello everyone what to think the public and aarp for sponsoring this debate. Give me the opportunity to serve them and congress over these last number of years. Is able to move up to the Agricultural Committee in 2005. And ive been chairman twice, are the only person thats ever done that. Weve been able to do some good work, was kept the committee bipartisan. Ive been rated the most bipartisan member of congress cgot the mca trade agreement done the people were concerned about, had a good democratic vote. Site look forward to going back to congress to continue the bipartisan work ive done over the number of years. Alright michele one minute Opening Statement respect thank you very much matt, aarp and for the public for putting this together tonight. I served to the Minnesota Senate, i was the first female president of the Minnesota Senate i work
The people in that audience youre probably looking at very, very closely. Theyre all wearing masks. What youre not seeing is the people who are going to be up on the stage, the moderator and the two candidates. They will not be. Now, its required here that they all make sure that they keep those masks on in the audience or they will be kicked out. I think jerry baker is back with us gerry baker is back with us. I i a apologize for my confusion. Erasing the memories and all the other stuff that happened entertaining that might have been that these guys are going to keep it to a minimum. Do you think they can, they will . Well, i think we certainly wont see anything like last week, i think we can probably guarantee that. But Kamala Harris is sharp, aggressive, i dont think she can help herself. Shell want to prosecute the case as shes done in the past, shell want to prosecute aggressively, and Vice President pence is not going to take it lying down. I think itll be a sharp, lively debate
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Doing focus groups for the last three years trying to understand what was going on with voters inside my own party, and one of the things i learned was that voters had reservations about donald trump, especially women, even if they voted for him. They did not like him, and a lot of their 2016 vote had more to do with disliking Hillary Clinton than liking donald trump. I have been thinking for a long time about how do you move those voters from Donald Trumps column in order to defeat him in 2020, and that is we found that is why we founded Republican Voters against trump, because we needed to hear from other Republican Voters who just could not do it anymore in terms of voting for donald trump. If you go to our rep website t. Org you can see that there from000 testimonials people who voted for trump and 2016, but they are doing little testimonials that talk about why they cannot support donald trump in 2020 and will support joe biden, and for people who have been culturally, privately,