I am bernard shaw of cnn. Cable news network. My colleagues are ann compton, of abc news. Margaret warner of newsweek magazine. And andrew mitchell, of nbc news. The candidates are Vice President george bush, republican nominee and governor michael dukakis. For the next 90 minutes we will be questioning the candidates by representatives of the two campaigns, however there are no restrictions on the questions that my colleague and i can ask this evening and the candidates have no prior knowledge of our questions. By agreement between the candidates, the first question goes to governor jackies. You have two minutes to respond. Governor if Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered, which you favored and irrevocably Death Penalty for the killer. No i dont, bernard. And i think you know that i post Death Penalty, all of my life. I dont see any evidence, and i think there are better and more effective ways to deal with crime. We have done so in my own state, and its one of the reasons why we hav
Electoral College Votes shy of an outright victory. This is. In the america this is an embarrassment to our country. Donald trump has falsely claimed election victory and this is the speech and the results even as votes are still being counted. In other news a military escalation in northern ethiopia as tensions between the government and local groups threaten to spill across the border. Its 20 g. M. T. Thats 33. 00 pm in the eastern United States and the race for the white house is still too close to call with 5 states still outstanding within the last hour joe biden has won the key battleground state of wisconsin the Term Campaign announced it will request a recount there its also filed the suit to hold the vote counting in the state of michigan and we are expecting to hear from the Trump Campaign and joe biden very soon hes urging his supporters to be patient insisting that he is on track for victory. Well lets take a look now at how the u. S. Election picture looks right now joe bi
Covid19 vaccine, and we have a potential new day for when americans could get advantage su nateed. This as warnings grow from top officials that you are responsible politicization and political attacks will slow down and interfere with when life could return to normal. Also tonight more on a brand new republican squad of newcomers in the house who counteract the democrats progressive squad. Whew their message is now resonating with americans as their own families have firsthand experience fleeing persecution under socialist regimes. Also this new and growing republican debate, should the biden family fully e divest out of its former business dealings including with china to insure the public space and diplomacy . Just as joe biden did promise on the campaign trail they would. And were finding it looks like the family may not have done that so far. So what problems can arise, what pressure could be i put on bidens family members here . And well get you updated on the growing anticovid l
Color, young people for biden and harris. So we have been doing an amazing effort. We have had working with pennsylvania stands up, great grassroots organization, we have inn training our volunteers sevenhour deep canvassing training. Over 600 of them have participated in this effort. We have made over 140,000 phone calls in pennsylvania in the last 3. 5 weeks. Now we are focused on geo tv. In the early weeks, we were focused on persuasion, listening, and helping to move people along the scale, on addressing some of their concerns if they were either thinking about it for trump, turning them around, or if they were not sure theyre going to vote for biden, moving them along that scale. It has been an amazing effort. I am so proud of our volunteers and people who are refusing to leave anything on the line to make sure we do everything we can to elect joe biden and Kamala Harris. Looks no doubt the efforts we made, the congress woman, what about in pennsylvania or other key states, if the
And talk about the potential for violence on Election Night and keeping the majority in the senate. This is an hour. Good afternoon, its monday, the day before election day. Im bob. Welcome do Washington Post live and every day today. We are going to hear from two Party Leaders on the front line of this Historic Campaign and hear from senator todd young of indiana. He is the person who is running all the Senate Campaigns tore the republicans as they hold on to their majority and welcome representative jayapal from Washington State and cochair of the progressive caucus in the house and one of those leaders in washington that regardless of who wins will be a voice in the Democratic Party in the years to come and campaigning across the country and two of my colleagues who i have been waiting to hear rom. First, lets go to the headlines. Day before election day. Voters get to decide. Not us, its the voters, you, who get to decide. Hears what im hearing. Number one, the Trump Campaign, repu