Good evening and welcome to this election 2020 debate between senate candidates, republican senator Martha Mcnally and democratic challenger mark kelly, the only live debate between the two candidates, joint effort brought to you by the arizona Citizens Election Commission and media organizations from across the state. I am ted simons, host and managing editor a is on a horizon in joining me tonight, political reporter sanchez with Arizona Republican the lorraine rivera, host of arizona 360 on k you atm steve goldstein, host of the show on k jj the radio. We are broadcasting live from the studios at arizona pds and asus Walter Cronkite school of journalism in downtown phoenix. Tonights debate is live streamed to the website including a see central. Com, k g the z, ac pbs. Org and a cbm. Org. Journalists from the four participating media outlets. Questions from the public as solicited by Citizens Elections Commission are also included. Ground rules for the debate, once we ask a question
Private sector for the first time in 15 years that will complete a purge of republicans out of high office in colorado. Democrats turned to a man who wanted to be president , the democratic primary voters did not share that desire. So former Governor John Hickenlooper is back running for the senate, the job he said he didnt want and wouldnt be good at. Two men coloradans know well with clear disagreements on healthcare, the economy, immigration, the Supreme Court and how to handle the pandemic. Now all thats left is for them to debate and you to decide. Brought to you by nine news, in association with colorado politics, and broadcasted statewide in every corner of colorado, presented live from the campus of Colorado State university in in fort collins, next presents race for the senate. Here are your moderators, kyle clark and marshall bellinger. Good evening. Next expands to a commercial free our statewide this evening. Statewide this evening for this u. S. Senate debate. We are follo
Contributor. What do we look out for . Spin is the only substantive issue to discuss with respect to this debate, but theres a Closing Argument to be made here by both President Trump and joe biden. Joes Closing Arguments have been about coronavirus. We see spiking in the midwest, and globally a worsening of the situation. Donald trump has chosen to tackle issues such as hunter biden and corruption within the biden family, which is a repeat of his Closing Arguments against Hillary Clinton in 2016. We will see if they have the same impact. Americans have already voted. Why will tonight move the dial . Rick well, it moved the dial in the first debate a bit. No question, the polling taken after the first president ial debate had biden consolidating his lead in almost all of the battleground states and nationally. Some of that has been given back to the field. Donald trump has improved since then. His numbers in states like pennsylvania and a little bit nationally. We know that people are
Democrats turned to a man who wanted to be president , the democratic primary voters did not share that desire so former Governor John Hickenlooper is back running for the senate, the job he said he didnt want and wouldnt be good at. Two men coloradans know well with clear disagreements on healthcare, the economy, immigration, the supremecourt and how to handle the pandemic. Now all thats left is for them to debate and you to decide. In association with colorado politics and broadcast statewide by stations in every corner of colorado is a live from the campus of Colorado State university in fort collins, next presents race for the senate, here are your moderators, kyle clark and marshall bellinger. Next expands to a commercial free our statewide this evening. For this u. S. Senate debate. We are following Public Health guidelines as well as guidance from our host set Colorado State university we are holding this debate with an without an audience, with social distancing and Health Chec
Not share that desire so former Governor John Hickenlooper is back running for the senate, the job he said he didnt want and wouldnt be good at. Two men coloradans know well with clear disagreements on healthcare, the economy, immigration, the supremecourt and how to handle the pandemic. Now all thats left is for them to debate and you to decide. In association with colorado politics and broadcast statewide by stations in every corner of colorado is a live from the campus of Colorado State university in fort collins, next presents race for the senate, here are your moderators, kyle clark and marshall bellinger. Next expands to a commercial free our statewide this evening. For this u. S. Senate debate. We are following Public Health guidelines as well as guidance from our host set Colorado State university we are holding this debate with an without an audience, with social distancing and Health Checks for everyone here including our candidates for u. S. Senate, republican Senator Cory G