Candidates will face off for the final time. You are looking at live pictures from the debate hall at can the bell in nashville, tennessee. Were seeing records broken already. Nearly 50 million americans have voted, and thats more ballots cast before election day in 2016. A rot of people. This is presidenPresident Trumpt opportunity to go face to face with a former Vice President. As you remember, their second debate was canceled when mr. Trump balked at a virtual format after he tested positive for covid19. Now, each candidate held an individual town hall one week ago. Both were tame affairs, compared to that first meeting, which you can describe as an overthetop slugfest, marred by insults and interruptions that left many wishing the organizers could simply just cut the microphones. So tonight, while one candidate is answering a direct question for two minutes, the other candidates microphone will be muted. The moderator, nbcs Kristen Welker, has chosen six topics fighting covid19, A
Ms. Welker i want to say good evening to both of you. This will cover six major topics. At the beginning of each section, each candidate will have two minutes to answer without interruption. The debate will turn on your microphone only when it is your time to answer, and turn it off exactly when two minutes expire. After that, both microphones will remain on, but please speak one at a time. The goal is to hear each other so the American People can hear every word of what you have to say. If you are ready, lets start. We will begin with the fight against the coronavirus. President trump, the first question is to you. The country is heading into a dangerous new phase, more than 40,000 americans are in the hospital tonight with covid, including record numbers in tennessee. Since you last shared a stage, 16,000 americans have died. Please be specific, how would you lead the country during this next stage of the coronavirus . Pres. Trump as you know, 2. 2 Million People were expected to die
Right now as we welcome to the stage former Vice President joe biden, and president donald j. Trump. [applause] ms. Welker i want to say good evening to both of you. This debate will cover six major topics. At the beginning of each section, each candidate will have two minutes to answer without interruption. The debate will turn on your microphone only when it is your time to answer, and turn it off exactly when two minutes expire. After that, both microphones will remain on, but please speak one at a time. The goal is to hear each other so the American People can hear every word of what you have to say. If you are ready, lets start. We will begin with the fight against the coronavirus. President trump, the first question is to you. The country is heading into a dangerous new phase, more than 40,000 americans are in the hospital tonight with covid, including record numbers in tennessee. Since you last shared a stage, 16,000 americans have died. Please be specific, how would you lead th
Television worldwide, good morning. 11 days to go on the election. What are we trying to do . We are trying to get through friday. This is a serious time, a serious debate last night. This pandemic has worsened worldwide. The challenge of a 3 trillion deficits. The civility of last night was noted. Jonathan it was civil. It was muted. But stark differences on the outlook, particularly over covid. The president promising a vaccine within weeks, and biden focusing on the failures of the administration and the winter ahead of us. The Vice President talking about winning hope over fear. That really goes to one of the themes this week we havent talked about, which is the partition of economic america. Lisa the idea that the jobless rate perhaps is going down, but stagnant at one rate. We got those initial jobless claims. The number of permanently unemployed americans, frankly those around the world, is increasing. It is going to take a long time to remedy some of the scarring taking place.
Three hours of reaction to the debate. And once again, we want to show you tonight the debate. Ms. Welker good evening from Belmont University in nashville, tennessee. I am kristen welker, and i welcome you to the 2020 residential debate between president donald j. Trump and former Vice President joe biden. Tonights debate is sponsored by the commission on president ial debates, and conducted under health and safety protocols. The audience in the hall has promised to remain silent. No cheers, boos, or other interruptions except for right now as we welcome to the stage former Vice President joe biden, and president donald j. Trump. [applause] ms. Welker i want to say good evening to both of you. This will cover six major topics. At the beginning of each section, each candidate will have two minutes to answer without interruption. The debate will turn on your microphone only when it is your time to answer, and turn it off exactly when two minutes expire. After that, both microphones will