Good evening and welcome to beautiful virginia for the third and final virginia Gubernatorial Debate of 2017 cohosted by the university of Virginia College of wives, University Virginia school of leadership and public policy, and the southwestern Virginia Technology council. My name is paul johnson, the anchor and your host for this event. This is carmen, of the Roanoke Times 50 cover state politics for the state of virginia. She will be asking questions of the candidates and ill be keeping track of the time. Together we want to get as much ground as possible tonight while providing the candidates and indepth opportunity to discuss some of the issues especially affecting southwest virginia and the commonwealth. We have made every possible effort tonight to ensure the fairness of these questions and exchanges so central to our democracy. Let me state for on the record here the ground rules weve agreed to an effort to advance the Public Interest of this conversation. The question is, eac
Cleaning. My name is paul johnson. Carmen foreman of the roanoke times. She covers state politics for the university of virginia. She will be asking questions of the candidates, and i will be keeping track of the time. Together, we will work to cover as much ground as possible tonight while providing candidates an opportunity to discuss some of the issues especially affecting southwest virginia and the commonwealth today. We have made every possible effort tonight to ensure the fairness of these questions and the exchanges so central to our democracy. Let me state on the record the ground rules we have agreed to in an effort to advance this conversation. The question seated beside me will ask each candidate a question and an order set by coin toss. We will also have candidate to candidate questions and opening and closing remarks. When the candidates time has expired, i will ask him to yield the floor. Candidates should speak during the designated time and refrain from interrupting eac
Campaign trail for the lieutenant governor. As we go to it here, a welcome to the Current Governor Terry Mcauliffe. You are watching live coverage on cspan. Virginia. Ening, [cheering] t is into that great isn it great to have president barack obama in the commonwealth of virginia . [cheering] do we not love our president . And i get a kick out of this. On the other side, ed gillespie is treating the president of his party as a communicable disease. They wont even talk to each other. We dont do that here. We love barack obama in the commonwealth of virginia. [cheering] [applause] i was just talking to the president backstage. She said, i feel like im an honorary virginian. I said, moving anytime you want. Move in any time you want. It was four years ago this time that President Obama Campaign for me as governor. I stood on stage with Ralph Northam. We made ar years ago, lot of commitments to you. You worked your heart and soul out to get us to elected, and i want to say thank you for w
Democrats call 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Independents call 2027488002. Regis on social media on reach us on social media, on twitter cspanwj and facebook. Com cspan. More on the new report from bloomberg news. It says that americans are officially freaking out. For those lying awake at night worrying about health care, the economy, and the overall feeling of divide between you and your neighbors, at least one source of comfort, your neighbors may be lying awake to the two thirds report beingor 62 stressed out about the future of the nation according to the American Psychological Association Survey in august and released on wednesday. The worry about the state of the union tops longstanding stressors such as money, work, and cuts across political proclivities. We are talking to you and getting your thoughts. Let us know if you are feeling stressed out about the future of the country. Here to tell us more about the evans, the ceo of the American Psychological association. He i
Is an army veteran a neurologist who currently serves as the states the tenant governor and spoke to supporters in fairfax virginia. Hello virginia. What a day in the commonwealth of virginia. A few minutes ago i received a gracious call from epilepsy gillespie. I wish them well and thank him for his service. [chanting] ralph ralph [chatter] lt. Governor northam we are back by popular demand. [cheering] lt. Governor northam virginia, we have witnessed another democratic sweep today. I want to congratulate my friend, attorney general mark herring, on his reelection. Thank you for reelecting mark herring. I want to thank our friend, justin fairfax. What a great team we have in virginia. It was said that the eyes of the nation are now on the commonwealth. Today virginians have answered and have spoken. Virgia has told us who ends the divisiveness, that we will not condone hatred and bigotry, and to end the politics that have torn this country apart. [cheering] mr. Northam i want to let yo