To have attended a fundraiser in downtown nashville. The Vice President and ms. Biden arrived 10 minutes later and traveled to Beaumont University of the site survey debate stage. Thanks for joining us on cspan for our coverage of this final debate of the 2020 president ial election. It all kicks off at 9 00 p. M. Tonight. As always, we will go early to get all the festivities ahead of time. Afterwards, we will take your calls and reactions. At about 8 35, the commission on president ial debates will issue a welcome. Janet brown will come out. Kristen welker will come out. People will be arriving. We will show you all that live. The debate begins a little bit after 9 00 p. M. At 10 30, we will take your calls and get your reaction. Throughout this campaign season, at all three debates sites, has traveled to them. Heres a little bit of randys report behind the scenes at the debate hall. Speakers were in the debate hall doing a dresser her salon stage. I want to take you behind the scene
Welcome to this evenings here in nashville. I am janet brown, executive director of the commission on president ial debates. Over the next few minutes, you will hear ground rules for the and many expressions of gratitude to the people and organizations who got us here tonight. I would like to start with three of them, who are genuine champions of debate and true cpd, dr. To the robert fisher, the president of beaumont university. It served as a backup site in 2016. To make thised evening happen in spite of a lot of challenges 2020 has brought to this campus and all the others across the country. They dont come any better than bob and his colleagues. The second is nashvilles on martin slutsky. [applause] marty has been the cpds executive producer since 2000. 23rd debate. S we could never do this without marty. He is a treasure. Cochair, is our third scott writings, who is not here with us this evening. She has been in louisville, she isy at home, but here in spirit. She is an asset to t
Ladies and gentlemen, could i ask you to take your seats please . The 2020 Vice President ial debate here at the university of utah. Im janet brown, executive director of the commission on president ial debates. We are delighted you are here. In the next few minutes, you are going to hear thanks that her own a lot of people for making tonight possible. We will also cover some housekeeping rules for this evenings debate, which start with please make sure your cell phones are turned off on all functions. Cannot make any noise, and please open your programs and take a look at some of the many people that we owe a huge debt of gratitude to for this evening. I would like to start with pentagram, which is of thoughtful which is responsible of the new book of s andommissions name cover. With ankle for the support of our work for years and the state of federal communications, which has just come on board this year. We thank you all. As we speak, there is a washington Filing Center being hosted
Camera performance ahead of the 2020 general election president ial debate. Many americans have studied the legendary lincolndouglas debates in 1858 which were not president ial debates but rather for a u. S. Senate seat. The candidates met facetoface seven times, and the subsequent by stephens won douglas, and that set the stage for abraham lincolns Successful Campaign for the presidency in 1860. 100 two years after those debates on september 20 6, 1960 ,t the cbs studios in chicago senator john f. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon came together in the firstever general election president ial debate, a televise affair that change the nature of politics. Mr. Kennedy and mr. Nixon debated four times in 1960, and john f. Kennedy went on to win the presidency by a slim margin. Looking back, mr. Nixon said, i should have remembered a picture is worth a thousand words. Those debates was sponsored by the three major networks, cbs, nbc, and abc. After a break of 16 years, the general e
Debates. This marks their first joint on camera performance ahead of the 2020 general election president ial debate. Many americans have studied the legendary lincolndouglas debates in 1858 which were not president ial debates but rather for a u. S. Senate seat. The candidates met facetoface seven times, and the subsequent election was won by stephen douglas, and that set the stage for abraham lincolns Successful Campaign for the presidency in 1860. 100 two years after those debates on september 20 6, 1960 at the cbs studios in chicago, senator john f. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon came together in the firstever general election president ial debate, a televise affair that change the nature of politics. Mr. Kennedy and mr. Nixon debated four times in 1960, and john f. Kennedy went on to win the presidency by a slim margin. Looking back, mr. Nixon said, i should have remembered a picture is worth a thousand words. Those debates was sponsored by the three major networks, cbs,