The Trump-Pence campaign is working to make inroads with female voters and suburban women in particular. Harris has made her own appeal on the campaign trail, telling voters that a Supreme Court challenge to the national health care law could end insurance coverage for birth control and enable insurers to treat pregnancy as a preexisting condition.
Though Pence has not tested positive for COVID, his recent exposure to people who have led the Biden-Harris campaign to request a see-through barrier separating the candidates as a precaution against possible transmission. They will also be stationed more than 12 feet apart.
The president, an avid cable TV news viewer, may chime in via tweet as the debate unfolds. Furthermore, only nine states and Washington, DC, are using "universal mail-in voting" this year. Experts acknowledge there might be some logistical issues in terms of people being able to receive and mail in their ballots.
Isolated incidents of missing ballots or discarded envelopes have cropped up in recent weeks. But there's no evidence that mail-in voting leads to fraudulent and rigged elections, which the Trump White House has repeatedly claimed. Voting by mail rarely results in fraud. States have put in place multiple policies and safeguards like bar codes and signature verification to combat risks and deter attempts to commit fraud.
Comprehensive studies of billions of ballots cast over many years indicate that the rate of voter fraud is less than 0. For more CNN fact checks, visit our fact check database here and learn more about mail-in voting here. Vice President Mike Pence and Kamala Harris briefly rehashed a dispute that has been a part of the political wrangling over Covid — whether or not the Trump White House disbanded an Obama-era pandemic team. The White House pandemic team was disbanded under Trump, but some of the public health officials on the team were kept onboard and reassigned to related roles.
Two things are clear: Number one, the Obama administration created a specific team on the National Security Council to handle pandemic preparation and global health. Number two, that team no longer exists. The official who was in charge, Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer, departed in CNN previously reported that another official with a similar purview has less authority than Ziemer had before he left. Regarding the fate of the White House pandemic team , it depends on who you ask. Trump critics and former Obama administration officials say the team was fired, eliminated or disbanded.
Trump and his conservative allies say the group was streamlined, reorganized or reassigned. For more CNN fact checks, visit our fact check database here. Facts First: This needs context and depends a lot on how you define taxes. Since then, around The unemployment rate is currently 7. It was 3. Verdict: This is right for the overall number since February but current claims are significantly lower.
Unemployment insurance claims have topped 30 million since the start of the outbreak in February. The number of claims has dropped in recent weeks and around 12 million are continuing claims, according to the US Labor Department.
Verdict: There are no details about how the Trump administration plans to protect people with pre-existing conditions. The Trump administration has sought to repeal and replace it and now seeks to dismantle the law in the Supreme Court.
In September, President Trump signed an executive order which said: "access to health insurance despite underlying health conditions should be maintained". But there is no detail about how this will be done or funded. Verdict: The quote is correct, but President Trump said in the same press conference that he wasn't referring to neo-Nazis or white nationalists.
Kamala Harris brought up President Trump's controversial comments following far-right protests in Charlottesville, Virginia in Violent clashes left one of the counter-protesters dead. According to a transcript of a press conference on 15 August, President Trump did say - when asked about the presence of neo-Nazis at the rally - "you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides.
From the first debates between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon in through the edition, the candidates answered questions posed by a panel of journalists, with the moderator there mainly to explain and enforce the ground rules sometimes more effectively than others and keep the proceedings moving. But by the s, the panel format was in trouble. Critics said it too much resembled a joint press conference than an actual debate, and that the journalist-panelists took too much time and attention away from the actual candidates.
The campaigns bickered constantly over who could or could not be a moderator or panelist. Finally, the League of Women Voters , which had organized the , and debates, threw in the towel, leaving the job to the newly created debate commission.
Based on feedback afterward , the commission decided to use only the single-moderator and town hall formats going forward. The moderators are drawn mainly from the upper echelons of broadcast journalism. With one exception James Hoge, editor in chief of the Chicago Sun-Times , who moderated the vice presidential debate , all of the moderators since have been prominent broadcast journalists. PBS has supplied the most moderators: 16 — and 12 of them in the person of the late Jim Lehrer , who moderated more debates than anyone else.
The only other person to have moderated more than two presidential or vice presidential debates is Bob Schieffer of CBS News , and Fresh data delivered Saturday mornings.
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