This evening the former Vice President , california senator Kamala Harris will speak. This as votes continue to be counted. Battle ground state, pennsylvania, 20 Electoral College votes, a state that the president flipped in 2016. Mail in ballots were counted particularly from philadelphia. He is building 97 reporting biden leading by 13,000 votes. In georgia, it bears repeating, a state thats not selected a democratic president since 1992, biden took the lead overnight. The margin is razor thin. Georgia secretary of state said there will be a recount. Biden ahead by less than 2000 votes. Lets take you to nevada, its 6 Electoral College votes officials said they have 63,000 ballots to be counted. Bide season building on the lead there. 8 8 leading President Trump 50 to 48 . Arizona, we should point out fox news and Associated Press called this state for joe biden already but a quick update to the numbers there, 94 reporting biden 50, President Trump 49 . As the numbers continue to come
Partners. Seattle city club enhances voter access. Thank you to the Washington State coalition, aarp washington. To preserve social distancing, moderators are seated in the main studio, the candidates are elsewhere in the building. This debate will be moderated by political reporters. Good evening from the tvw studios in olympia and all of you watching. Candidates in our for governor, income and, jay inslee, and the Republican Police chief. Affirmative you can hear us from the city of . Yes. , we want to let viewers know they are upstairs from us in the studio. There are no Campaign Staffers allowed. No members of the production crew are in the room. They were not allowed to bring in notes, cell phones or computers. It is just them. The candidates have screens where they can see each other. They can see the moderators. I will go over the format. It is somewhat different from last weeks president ial debate. We will be with Opening Statements, questions will be asked of both candidates,
Good afternoon, everyone. Our 200 judge and then let me turn to the cloture on the motion to proceed. Several of them dont trust which mcconnell. They dont have to trust me. I want an open amendment process, i mean it if they dont feel theyve had fair treatment, the remedy is to refuse to finish the bill. So theres literally no harm done by debating this important topic. One of our colleagues spent an enormous amount of time on this. He is personally experienced the kind of treatment that produced an interest in addressing this issue at the federal level so i want to call on senator scott to give his thoughts about where we are. Theres no doubt in the earliest conversations about the process that should be undertaken to address the serious issues confronting the communities of color and so many individuals within those communities if thats not the most important way for us to do so is to have an open process thank you for having an open process that allows us to engage in a real debate
Cspan. Org or listen live on the free cspan radio app. Senate minority leader Charles Schumer and other democrats held a News Conference to address please reform legislation. Senator schumer indicated democrats would not consider the justice act of republican reform bill written by senator tim scott of South Carolina arguing the legislation does not go far enough. This is half an hour. Okay, hello everybody and thank you for coming, im pleased to be joined by my colleagues, durbin, booker and harris. Let me begin. The Senate Republican justice act is lacking in substance and will to not make the reforms needed to stop Police Brutality against black americans and the reforms that are americans are demanding more from. Since last night, many, most of the leading civil Rights Groups have come out opposing the republican bill and urge the senate to reject the bill calling it a nonstarter. The naacp Legal Defense fund, the urban league, the National Action network, even been crowned, the at
Protesters with the removal of statues, saying 10 years is a long time to spend in prison. He also talked about the coronavirus and the economy. Looks like a packed house to me, huh . Its incredible to be in the state of arizona with a man who is fighting for every single one of you in this room. They said he would never run for president. They said there is no way he could beat 15 or 16 other republicans. They said there is no way he could beat hillary clinton, the media, every other president that was living before him. There is no way that he could do it. And then on that day in november, 2016, this state, alongside so many other states,. Hocked the world. Man represents not the ruling class, but the people, us, and we are not going to take it anymore. Anymore. [cheering] there is a very important cultural moment happening in our country. Our history is being deleted, our statues are being taken down, George Washington statue taken down with no plans of it being taken back up. , now