Americans are watching on television as well. San francisco was the sight of the signing of the american charter. It is an appropriate place to hold this debate, the subject of which is foreign and defense issues. The questioners tonight are max frankel, henry trewhitt, and richard valeriani, Diplomatic Correspondent of nbc news. Rules are the same for the first debate. Questions will be alternated between candidates. Governor carter will take the first question. Each question sequence will be as follows. The question will be asked and the candidate will have three minutes to answer. His opponent will have two minutes to respond. Prior to the response the questioner may ask a followup question to clarify with up to two minutes to reply. Each candidate will have three minutes for a closing statement at the end. President ford and governor carter do not have it prepared remarks with them this evening but they may take notes during the debate and refer to them. Mr. Frankel, you have the f
Important states in a we all know what they are michigan wisconsin pennsylvania arizona florida North Carolina georgia iowa biden leads in 8 those 8 states trump won them by 10 points or less and 2016 and there are only 2 battleground states ohio who are trump and biden are tied and texas where trump is ahead this is texas red state texas trump ahead by only 2 so given that id rather be joe biden today than down trump but let me tell you as we know. It all depends on turnout and. That close. Polls are never that accurate that could change thats probably going for sure dynes a leader is going to diminish and so biden is right to warn his people dont take this for granted dont get complacent dont sit back and never do whatever it was dont think about not gloating because in the bag because its not in the back what what could have changed that for trump the handling the coronavirus. I think thats the number one thing that could have changed that i think more than anything else. This elect
I think thats the number one thing that could have changed that i think more than anything else. This election is a referendum on actually 2 things one its a referendum on his behavior just his personality his personal attacks is rhetoric his language he attacks when many attacks attacks everybody number one number 2 its a referendum on how donald trump has handled the coronavirus and i dont see how you can look at that. And give him. Good marks i mean from the beginning he hears a minute he knew it was serious he downplayed it he didnt do anything he wont wear a mask is now having super spreader events the death toll keeps going up. There now about 220000 and he keeps saying were turning the corner we are not this is not republican or democrats big we are not turning the corner were not turning the corner there are 36 states today that have the highest cases that theyve ever had friday last friday the reception he 1000 new cases thats the most since july this is growing it is still se
Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us its election day in the United States and today and all this week well be looking at the impact of the vote on countries across asia one of the most important relationships for the u. S. In the entire pacific is its in gage meant with india the 2 countries together with japan and australia from part of what is known as a quad for democracies in a clear counterpoint to china the regions large authoritarian state we sat down with indias foreign secretary harshvardhan to discuss regional politics we started by asking him whether thered be any change with a biden presidency especially given president dollar trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modis great personal admiration for each other. Other relations with the United States are really based on bipartisan support you see it in congress you see it in public lives we do believe that the force that elation ship that today is had visits to the test of time is very comprehensive and
Have to be counted some of them are only or a lot of them actually starting to be counted today and thats an awful lot of ballots to be counted so an official result of that is actually quite usual for the United States here we didnt have and other elections also you official results its the t. V. Networks and the pollsters who called the winner early about official results likely not to be happening tomorrow at this time will there be a network or Many Networks and polls this calling a winner by tomorrow this time. I dont know maybe thats the best you can get out of me and maybe a solid maybe its really not clear theres a lot of voting count valid to count the vote count going on and it has to be done to really really firmly call a state or. An overall result for the elections ok and what should we expect from these these old important to swing states that a so important for these counted is. Yeah there as you said they are really important it is those states where actually the math i