Spirit this debate will not be like others. Our candidates join us remotely. After several days of confirmation hearings, miss greenfield is live from altoona. Matt breen anchors the evening news, the chief politics reporter for the Des Moines Register and ron steele is evening news anchor in waterloo. Senator joni ernst running for her second term in u. S. Senate, native of iowa answer for 23 years, normally the first woman in iowa to serve in federal office but the first female veteran elected to serve in the u. S. Senate. Teresa greenfield, raised on a small harmon soda, moved to iowa to attend college, has a background in planning and real estate and development in iowa. In 2018 she briefly ran for congress, she was in the morning with her husband. For the rules of the debate, candidates get 50 seconds to answer a question. Of the candidate is mentioned by name she will get 30 seconds to respond. The yellow light indicates 10 seconds remain. Candidates get 60 seconds for closing st
The dest, kcci, moines register, kwwl, and ktiv and senator joni ernst challenger theresa greenfield. In true 2020 spirit, this debate will not be like others you have seen. Steve, myself, and our three moderators are here in person. Our candidates join us remotely. Senator ernst is in washington after several days of confirmation hearings for judge amy coney barrett. Miss greenfield is live from altoona. Moderators. T our we have the chief politics reporter for the des moines register. And ron steele is the evening news anchor at kwwl. Is anator joni ernst native of red oak, iowa, and served in the military for more than 23 years. Is the first female veteran elected to serve in the u. S. Senate. Democrat theresa greenfield hopes to unseat senator ernst. She was raised on a small farm in minnesota and moved to iowa to attend college. She has a background in urban planning. In 2018, she briefly ran for congress in iowas third district. She lives and oman with her husband. Now for the ru
Cleveland clinic. Ofelcome you to the first the 2020 president ial debates between president donald j. Trump and former Vice President joe biden. The debate is sponsored by commission on president ial debates. The commission has designed the format with twominute answers from each candidate to the first question, then open discussion for the rest of each segment. Both campaigns have agreed to these rules. For the record, i decided the topics and the questions in each topic. I can assure you that none of the questions have been shared with the commission or the two candidates. This debate is being conducted under health and safety protocols designed by the cleveland clinic, which is serving as the Health Security advisor to the commission for all four debates. As a precaution, both campaigns have agreed to candidates will not shake hands at the beginning of tonights debate. The audience here in the hall has promised to remain silent, no cheers, no boos or other interruptions, so we and
There will be one in between facing the Vice President candidates at the university of utah in salt lake city. Real quickly joined by charles payne, lou dobbs. Lou, what do you think the president has to do tonight . Lou first and foremost, be himself. And to use his original mind, as im sure he will, and his sense of humor. Those are two advantages he has that he exploited in 2016 to his great and winning effect. I expect him to do precisely the same thing tonight. Neil you know, charles payne, debates were going up over these in the years dating back to 1976 with jimmy carter and gerald ford, you have to present yourself especially joe biden, youre as well known. Not quite as well known, obviously, as the president of the United States, but you have to reintroduce yourself. Both men, essentially, reintroducing themself. Likability come up as some intangible, george bush had that against al gore, ronald reagan, certainly, in that one and only debate with jimmy carter. Your thoughts on
End their decision would allow of course joe biden to stay in the comfort of his basement with the teleprompter or more teleprompters and who knows what the end all of his handlers of course would be around to help him. President trump says theres no way that will happen. No, im not going to waste my time on a virtual debate. Thats not what debating is about. Its ridiculous and they cut you off whenever they want. We learned at the same way you learned it. They called up to minutes ago and it was announced and they are trying to protect biden. I dont want to do a virtual debate because a virtual debate is a joke. Im in great shape. Unlike joe i dont have the luxury of staying in a basement all day while im running the country. Lou both the trump and Biden Campaign tonight we are told reliably are trying to come to some sort of agreement on the next two debates. Rick Rick Lawrence is in washington now with the latest. Lou this negotiation is taking place in the public forms of the commi