For stephanie ruhle. We are 71 days away from the election. Early voting starts in less than a month in the first mail in ballots will be sent out next week. The conventions are over and the threat to election day is an. One of the biggest days between know when that, the president ial debate scheduled for september 10 on abc. Now, donald trump is threatening to pull out. Here is nbcs Garrett Haake with more. Reporter tonight, the trumpet heres campaigns drooling over the residential debate. This Morning Trump casting doubt about attending and now a new wrinkle. The deal is we keep the same rules and now they want a change in the rules because she cant answer questions. Reporter in the last face off at the bys campaign request, candidates megaphones were muted while the other candidate was speaking to prevent interruption. Now heres campaign is asking for the microphones to be left on at all times. Trumps Campaign Objective but the candidates seeming to acquiesce today while taunting t
Thats to be expected. The alternative, however, is simply untenable. At home, another four years of Donald Trumps chaotic leadership, this time focused on advancing the dangerous goals of project 2025 will hurt real, everyday people and waken our sacred institutions. Richard, which are the reasons who have not stood up yet, who served in the Trump Administration, who could actually make a difference in terms of persuading those very few, unpersuadable voters who are left . And do you expect any more of them to stand up between now and november . I mean, theres the former Vice President who has, shall we say, a certain physical and political incentive to stand up, given how he was do you think hes going to do it . No. Look, i think if people were going to stand up, theyve had now, shall we say, several years to do it. Several people simply have not. Disagree with me or not, but how much of a difference will it make . Its certainly not going to shake trumps base. Im not sure many of thes
Thank you for joining us on day two of the 2020 Republican National convention. You can find this event and the latest Convention News on our Convention Hub at thehill. Com. This program is also coming to you live on facebook and twitter. The presidency is not the only race up for grabs in november. Today, we look for the battle for control of congress and other down ballot races. We have terrific guests joining us, but before we dive in i would like to thank the American Petroleum institute for their support of the event. Along with the president ial campaign, congressional and other down ballot races have also been affected by the pandemic. What that could mean for republicans as they seek to control retain control of the senate and take back the house. Before we get underway, a few housekeeping notes you can tweet us at the hill events using thehill2020. We are live and we could experience occasional troubles with the video, usually refreshing the page will fix the problem. Now, to
Information come out of florida. The number of cases continues to climb, nearly a million 11 million cases. We think brazil. , give us your sense of where we are, particularly in the United States. We had the florida case is that seemed to be stabilizing. Is it too early to say the reentry to lock down from key portions of florida, how people are mixing bars and restaurants is having an effect . John i think its way too early to say that. These measures take quite a while. Caseser when we first saw taking off in china. They locked down 12 Million People. Months for those measures to have an impact. Those measures were much more comprehensive than anything we are seeing in the u. S. Right now. Level, itsday going to take quite some time to taken,ther measures have when impact its going to have. U. S. Still have a lot of freedom to travel from state to state. They are asking people in texas, the government has mandated mask wearing. Are people going to wear masks . See whetherrious to th
A slogan that whatever the problem is of course jokes and counting the cost on aljazeera. Hi im Steve Clemons and i have a question is the Democratic Party in the mother of all wars with itself lets get to the bottom line. So after months of debates about health care about whether a woman can be president about billionaires and about americas legacy of racism and social division about russia and its election meddling or about china now and the coronavirus the Democratic Party is finally getting closer to picking a candidate who will face off against republican President Donald Trump in november the process has been a battle for the soul of the party wait not really just the soul but the deep soul which now seems split between the establishment represented by former Vice President joe biden and the revolution championed by senator Bernie Sanders so which way will this all go and which candidate has a better chance of inspiring americans and more crucially getting them to the voting poll