Mike thank you for joining us. Im mike cihla. Wtoc is hosting a debate for the senatorial race with candidates republican incumbent david perdue and jon ossoff. In addition to wtoc, this debate is also airing in acosta, columbus, albany, thomasville. The candidates are eight feet apart and as you can see, there is a plexiglas divider between them. We are following cdc recommendations. Here are the rules for tonights debate. Candidates will have 1 30 for opening and closing statements, 1 15 to answer a question when it is posed to both. Candidates can request a rebuttal if they are named or attacked by the candidate in their answer. The candidate will have 45 seconds for a rebuttal. We also have directed questions for individual candidates. They will have 1 15 for a response. The other candidate will have 45 seconds for comment if they choose to. Rebuttal rules will go into effect. The candidates tonight are republican incumbent david perdue and democratic challenger jon ossoff. You bot
In bell month university in nashville, tennessee. Just this week the Debate Commission made a change in the debate rules. One candidates microphone will now be muted while his opponent delivers an initial two minute long answer at the start of each of six topic segments. The topics tonight chosen by the moderator are fighting covid19. American families. Race in america. Climate change. National security. And leadership. The final debate has in the past focused on foreign policy, and the Trump Campaign complained about the changes made as a result of the cancelation of the second debate which the commission decided would have to be done virtually. This debate on the latest kal ender date in recent his it tree comes as the Coronavirus Infection rate is again rising across the United States. And after the president himself contracted the virus three weeks ago. This matchup comes as early voting continues and at an historic pace in all 50 states with more than 47 million americans having a
In georgia, senator perdue is running for reelection. We will show you a debate where he squares off with democratic candidate jon ossoff. The georgia Great Television station presents republican incumbent david perdue and democratic challenger jon ossoff in the 2020 georgia u. S. Senatorial debate. Now, here is your moderator, mike cihla. Moderator good evening. Thank you for joining us. Im mike cihla. Wtoc is hosting a debate for the senatorial race with candidates republican incumbent david perdue and jon ossoff. In addition to wtoc, this debate is also airing in acosta, columbus, albany, thomasville. The candidates are eight feet apart and as you can see, there is a plexiglas divider between them. We are following cdc recommendations. Here are the rules for tonights debate. Candidates will have 1 30 for opening and closing statements, 1 15 to answer a question when it is posed to both. Candidates can request a rebuttal if they are named or attacked by the candidate in their answer.
And as you can see, there is a plexiglas divider between them. We are following cdc recommendations. Here are the rules for tonights debate. Candidates will have 1 30 for opening and closing statements. The candidates will have 1 15 to answer a question. When a question is posed to both. The candidates can request a rebuttal if they are named or attacked by the other candidate in their answer. If that request granted is granted, they will have 45 seconds for rebuttal. They will have a u 15 for a response 1 15 the other candidate will have 45 seconds for comment if they choose to, then rebuttal rules about a direct attack would go into effect. Again, the candidates are david perdue and john osoff. You both have 1 30 for opening statements. Senator perberd due, you won the coin flip, so lets start with you. Thank you, mike, and thank you to wtoc for hosting this tonight. You know, my mom and dad were Public Schoolteachers. I grew up working on our family farms. I worked my way through ge
Albany, thomasville. The candidates are 8 feet apart and as you can see, there is a plexiglas divider between them. We are following cdc recommendations. Here are the rules for tonights debate. Candidates will have 1 30 four opening and closing statements, 1 15 to answer a question when it is posed to both. Candidates can request a rebuttal if they are named or attacked by the candidate in their answer. The candidate will have 45 seconds for a rebuttal. We also have directed questions for individual candidates. 1 15 for aave response. The other candidate will have 45 seconds for comment if they choose to. Rebuttal rules will go into effect. The candidates tonight are republican incumbent david perdue and democratic challenger jon ossoff. 1 34 1 30 first starting remarks. Sen. Perdue my mom and dad were Public School teachers in middle georgia and i grew up working on our family farms. I worked my way through georgia tech and went on to have a Business Career and became a fortune 500 ce