Cleveland clinic. Ofelcome you to the first the 2020 president ial debates between president donald j. Trump and former Vice President joe biden. The debate is sponsored by commission on president ial debates. The commission has designed the format with twominute answers from each candidate to the first question, then open discussion for the rest of each segment. Both campaigns have agreed to these rules. For the record, i decided the topics and the questions in each topic. I can assure you that none of the questions have been shared with the commission or the two candidates. This debate is being conducted under health and safety protocols designed by the cleveland clinic, which is serving as the Health Security advisor to the commission for all four debates. As a precaution, both campaigns have agreed to candidates will not shake hands at the beginning of tonights debate. The audience here in the hall has promised to remain silent, no cheers, no boos or other interruptions, so we and
Listen on the free cspan radio app. The Bipartisan Policy Center released a report on how changing demographics will impact future elections. Pollsters explain how Political Parties should respond to these changes over the next quarter century. This is 1. 5 hours. Good morning. I am the director of governmental study studies at the Bipartisan Policy Center. Of change our states event, an event we have been doing for 40 years that even goes back a couple of years beyond that. Partneredchange is a effort with the center for american progress, the Brookings Institution, and the Voter Study Group of the Democracy Fund, and also, i want to mention the participation of the American Enterprise and said to. American enterprise institute. That group has been collecting election information, combined with demographic information, thinking about the future of our elections. Each year, we have new data, a new report. Says,nk, as the name about the state, not only our country, but how the states ar
From cleveland. Here it is. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the healthning from education campus of Case Western Reserve University and the cleveland clinic. Ofelcome you to the first the 2020 president ial debates between president donald j. Trump and former Vice President joe biden. The debate is sponsored by commission on president ial debates. The commission has designed the format with twominute answers from each candidate to the first question, then open discussion for the rest of each segment. Both campaigns have agreed to these rules. For the record, i decided the topics and the questions in each topic. I can assure you that none of the questions have been shared with the commission or the two candidates. This debate is being conducted under health and safety protocols designed by the cleveland clinic, which is servin
Muzzled here. People wanted to do that for years. This phase in the hearing is complete and we now move to several closeddoor sessions and tomorrow morning, there will be a meeting of the judiciary in attee on the next step public panel will be part of it, then ultimately there will be a vote of the full committee i assume next week on this nomination. In my observations are these, we should not be here. We should not be holding the Committee Meeting in the midst of an election. This is the first time this has ever happened in the history of the United States that a Supreme Court nomination has been considered in the midst of an election. It is a desperate attempt by oconnell and President Trump to fill a vacancy at a time when we should be taking our time, assessing the nominee, and doing it in an orderly fashion and as the American People have said, it should be done by the next president. We should not be here. The hearing itself lasted several days has been conducted in a fair mann
Debates. The commission has designed the format with twominute answers from each candidate to the first question, then open discussion for the rest of each segment. Both campaigns have agreed to these rules. For the record, i decided the topics and the questions in each topic. I can assure you that none of the questions have been shared with the commission or the two candidates. This debate is being conducted under health and safety protocols designed by the cleveland clinic, which is serving as the Health Security advisor to the commission for all four debates. As a precaution, both campaigns have agreed to candidates will not shake hands at the beginning of tonights debate. The audience here in the hall has promised to remain silent, no cheers, no boos or other interruptions, so we and more importantly you can focus on what the candidates have to say. No noise except right now as we welcome the republican nominee, President Trump, and the democratic nominee, Vice President biden. [ap