Right now as we welcome to the stage former Vice President joe biden, and president donald j. Trump. [applause] ms. Welker i want to say good evening to both of you. This debate will cover six major topics. At the beginning of each section, each candidate will have two minutes to answer without interruption. The debate will turn on your microphone only when it is your time to answer, and turn it off exactly when two minutes expire. After that, both microphones will remain on, but please speak one at a time. The goal is to hear each other so the American People can hear every word of what you have to say. If you are ready, lets start. We will begin with the fight against the coronavirus. President trump, the first question is to you. The country is heading into a dangerous new phase, more than 40,000 americans are in the hospital tonight with covid, including record numbers in tennessee. Since you last shared a stage, 16,000 americans have died. Please be specific, how would you lead th
And as you can see, there is a plexiglas divider between them. We are following cdc recommendations. Here are the rules for tonights debate. Candidates will have 1 30 for opening and closing statements. The candidates will have 1 15 to answer a question. When a question is posed to both. The candidates can request a rebuttal if they are named or attacked by the other candidate in their answer. If that request granted is granted, they will have 45 seconds for rebuttal. They will have a u 15 for a response 1 15 the other candidate will have 45 seconds for comment if they choose to, then rebuttal rules about a direct attack would go into effect. Again, the candidates are david perdue and john osoff. You both have 1 30 for opening statements. Senator perberd due, you won the coin flip, so lets start with you. Thank you, mike, and thank you to wtoc for hosting this tonight. You know, my mom and dad were Public Schoolteachers. I grew up working on our family farms. I worked my way through ge
Charles, what do you think is most at stake for the president tonight . If you buy the consensus he is down in the polls, whatever you think of the polls he has got to make the stronger pitch, a, do you buy that and what does he do . I think he has got, he has got to again remind people, because we talked earlier about the fact that you know, at this point a lot of folks are taking their own personal economy for granted. A lot of people still have jobs. Their wages have gone up. They have bought a house. Homeowner ship the highest level since Third Quarter of 2018. The highest ever for hispanics. He has to remind them, listen this, doesnt happen by accident. You went through eight years we recovered from a recession but it was the worst postrecession recovery in history. We were limping along. When my policies hit there is a direct line. You know the tax cuts went into effect in january of 2018. That year immediately we saw bluecollar wages skyrocket. It wasnt a tax cut that just benef
Three hours of reaction to the debate. And once again, we want to show you tonight the debate. Ms. Welker good evening from Belmont University in nashville, tennessee. I am kristen welker, and i welcome you to the 2020 residential debate between president donald j. Trump and former Vice President joe biden. Tonights debate is sponsored by the commission on president ial debates, and conducted under health and safety protocols. The audience in the hall has promised to remain silent. No cheers, boos, or other interruptions except for right now as we welcome to the stage former Vice President joe biden, and president donald j. Trump. [applause] ms. Welker i want to say good evening to both of you. This will cover six major topics. At the beginning of each section, each candidate will have two minutes to answer without interruption. The debate will turn on your microphone only when it is your time to answer, and turn it off exactly when two minutes expire. After that, both microphones will
Another wave of covert 19 cases. Nigerias president sent out a warning to protesters after another night of widespread unrest and violence during the push for his resignation. So that in just an hours time u. S. President donald trump will meet democratic nominee joe biden for the final debate ahead of the elections on november the 3rd organizers in nashville in tennessee have made changes to the format same did avoiding a repeat of trumps interruptions during the 1st debate lets cross to our White House Correspondent can we how can his outside weather debate will be taking place in nashville in tennessee and say kimberly there will be an audience of tens of millions it promises to be quite a show so we have trouble maybe a breakthrough and biden i guess just needs to keep it steady. Yeah thats exactly it trying to avoid any major mistakes is really the goal for joe biden in all of this and for Donald Trumps part what hes trying to do is provoke that so what we expect throughout the 90