Anything to in conjunction with the chamber of commerce we are the four candidates for u. S. Senate and maine the 300,000 and residents have cast ballots but many will do so with absentee voting are at the polls on november 3rd this is the opportunity to get some clarity about the candidates and where they stand clear whoring one holding this form in person however with the senate so in session Susan Collins cannot attend in person we were told sarah would not appear in person is senator collins did not so we are having a virtual gathering. The candidates tonight in alphabetical order Susan Collins, sarah gideon and max went and lisa savage. Will be posing questions to the candidates each have one minute to answer each candidate will have an opportunity to ask a question of another candidate with the same time limit and each will have a time limit for a closing statement and senator collins i will begin with you so to block consideration of expensive pandemic when he falls and rest con
Begin the lameduck session of the lameduck session of congress with a 117 still ahead, we are joined by the chief Congressional Correspondent from the Washington Examiner, great to have you with us. Guest good morning. Host lets leap ahead to january and the two runoff races in georgia, the race against the incumbent senator david perdue any other race with senator Kelly Loeffler. Have we ever seen to Senate Runoff races in any state before . Guest not my history of covering congress. Its really unusual. Its also unusual in georgia that the race has ended up in runoff territory. Georgia had been traditionally a very red state where republicans could usually count on an easy win in the statewide races. That was the last few election cycles. There has been a shift in the electorate in georgia over the areas ande the urban their suburban surroundings have gotten more blue, more democratic in their electorate. That has led to some close races where republicans cannot be assured of an easy
Welcome to Washington Post live. Our program election daily 1 00 p. M. Eastern every day. Well welcome representative jaapal from Washington State. The cochair of the progressive caucus in the house. One of those leaders in washington who regardless of who wins will be a voice in the Democratic Party in the years to come. She is already campaigning across the country. I have two of my colleagues i have been waiting to hear from a long time. Steve, whost the news letter and emily. Lets go to the program. Voters finally get to decide. It is the voters, you who get to decide. Here is what im hearing. Number one, the Trump Campaign, republicans are concerned about my home area. The philadelphia suburbs. They have seen rogues there. Because of that erosion in the philadelphia suburbs so critical, you heard the chant of fire fauci last night at the trump rally. He is turning to his base. Running against the doctors stoking that base in central pennsylvania and other parts of the country. It
For an economy he inherited and zero blame for the pandemic he ignored. The final debate, which included Climate Change. Would you close it down. A transition industry, yes. A big statement. And covid. Were learning too live with it. We have no choice. He said were learning to live with it. People are learning to die with it. Giving both candidates ammunition. How safe is mr. Bidens polling lead . Can mr. Trump repeat his Election Night 2016 shocker . And who will control the decision . My guests, can be can be, Corey Lewandowski, congressman from ohio, and Denver Riggleman from virginia. Plus, several members of Vice President pences staff test positive for covid as cases hit an alltime high. Its very real. Theres probably not a day i dont cry. Joining mr 230e insight and analysis are amy walter, from the cook report, Yamiche Alcindor from nbc thursday house, mark murray and anna palmer, senior washington correspondent for politico. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Announcer fro
Thank you to both for being here. Before we start i want to let everyone know that we will save some time for questions. At the bottom of your skin, you will notice the button to ask questions. Please feel free to do that during our discussion. You miss any of the discussion or you want to share with your friends, a replay will be available at the same link you used to register. Go, less than two weeks to lets rewind the clock a bit to 2018. The midterms were not good year for the republicans. Women elected to the house, only one was a republican. The total number of republican women in the house fell to 13. That was the lowest point in the last two decades. You guys have had your work cut out for you the last two years. To see ifted to start each of you could give us a sense of your organization. And what your forecast is in the next few weeks. The only good news about 2018 was the bar was set pretty low for 2020. We are expecting great things in 13 days. We have been working really h