Reelection. How are you doing . Guest i am good. Host remind us of the purpose of the Lincoln Project and for the viewers who want to know, where do you get your funding . Guest are funding comes from the National Grassroots with over 500,000 donors. We have a few major donors trade almost all of our fundraising as come through small dollar donations and people who want a voice that is able to attack donald trump and able to go after his campaign in a way that many others cannot. We are a group of former republicans and folks who were driven out of the donald trump iteration of the Republican Party for a host of reasons. Primarily because he has conservative principles. He is governing as more of an authoritative statist. We look at this election as a threat to the future of this country great it was our moral and political obligation to do something about it. Host you described yourself as a former republican strategist. Does that also mean you are a former republican . Do you still c
President ial debates will open the doors and turn on the light and welcome viewers to the debate. A little after 9 00, the debate will begin. It begins a few minutes after 9 00 so the networks can introduce coverage. Cspans up at 10 30 and will get your calls and reaction. That is what is coming up tonight. Joining us is greta. What do you have . Greta lets start with a closer view. This is from the cspan twitter feed from yesterday set up at the university of utah. You can follow our coverage on twitter. Lee from the New York Times reported senator harris was prepping for tonight with hundreds of index cards and a mac a mock debate with pete pence andplaying mike an effort to lower expectations. The wall street journal reports that harris tried to lower expectations coming describing pence as a formidable bader. She says debate her. She says she will make this about leadership during the pandemic. That is what democrats plan to do. They plan to make it about all pandemic, all the tim
Susan good evening, from the university of utah in salt lake city, welcome to the first and only Vice President ial debate of 2020, sponsored by the nonpartisan commission on president ial debates. Im susan page of usa today. It is my honor to moderate this debate, an important part of our democracy. In Kingsbury Hall tonight, we have a small and socially distanced audience, we have taken extra precautions during this pandemic. Among other things, everyone in the audience is required to wear a face mask, and the candidates will be seated 12 feet apart. The audience is enthusiastic about their candidates, but they have agreed to express that enthusiasm only twice, at the end of the bait, and now, when i introduced the candidates. Please welcome california senator Kamala Harris and Vice President mike pence. [applause] susan senator harris and Vice President pence, thank you for being here. We are meeting as President Trump and the first lady continue to undergo treatment in washington a
White house correspondent for the white house journal. The question, how can you expect americans to follow the administrations safety guidelines to protect themselves from covid when you at the white house have not been doing so . The first question to the Vice President. And kenneth with the washington post, susan pages questions so far are incredibly incisive, cutting, but fair. She was doing a great job controlling the debate. Its a lot easier to control pence and harris van to control the president than to control the president than to control the president. Pence is literally ignoring the questions he was asked. To answer a question of his choice. Unclear if that will irk voters or if it is savvy debate strategy. Senator harris was asked a similar question and she also did not answer it. Okeefe says notable that susan page asked Kamala Harris to ask whats up with Green New Deal . She never explicitly says the biden plan is or is not the Green New Deal. Says pence gets asked a Cli
Last night dominated by softball questions for joe biden. The hill media reporter joe concha on why critics say biden keeps getting a pass as President Trump gets hammered, raked over the coals. And Task Force Member on the growing pushback, were going to talk about the political infighting at the cdc, plus were going to talk to dr. Atlas about the new fight breaking out in nashville, tennessee, where the Mayors Office faces accusations that it covered up positive data on covid19 thats good for nashville when nashville was doing lockdowns of bars and restaurants. Also rnc Committee Woman for california Harmeet Dhillon on growing new questions over joe and Hunter Bidens conflicts of interest. Turns out there is a longer, deeper story here. Analyst and senator ron johnson have warned the headlines are about to get much worse for the bidens. Were digging into the documents. Also, congressman greg steube on preparing to enact sanctions against iran potentially by 8 p. M. Tomorrow night as