Joe Biden and Donald Trump had town halls at the exact same time on Thursday (October 15) (despite petitions and protests from Hollywood stars to stagger the time slots), and Biden easily won in the ratings department.
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.Joe Biden and Donald Trump had town halls at the exact same time on Thursday (October 15) (despite petitions and protests from Hollywood stars to stagger the time slots), and Biden easily won in the ratings department.
Ted Johnson NBC News indicated that it is not backing off plans for a town hall with Donald Trump scheduled at the same time that ABC News is doing a similar event with Joe Biden.The scheduling has drawn criticism, including from more than 100 producers, directors and writers who signed their names to a letter urging NBC to move the time of the town hall.In a statement, Cesar Conde, chairman of NBCU News Group, said, “We share in the frustration that our event will initially air alongside the
Ted Johnson NBC News is taking heat for its decision to schedule a town hall on Thursday evening with President Donald Trump that will compete head-to-head with ABC News’ event with Joe Biden.The backlash comes after Trump refused to participate in a virtual town hall debate with Biden, long scheduled for Oct. 15, forcing the Commission on Presidential Debates to cancel the event.
Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVMore than 100 writers, actors, directors and producers are speaking out against NBC’s plan to air a town hall with President Donald Trump tonight at 8 PM directly opposite the Joe Biden town hall on ABC.In an open letter to Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell and NBCU News Group chairman Cesar Conde, the Hollywood heavyweights are asking for the Trump town hall to be shifted from the time slot.
Joe Biden's team agreed to the updated safety terms, but almost immediately, President Donald Trump said in an interview with that he would skip a virtual debate, and hold a rally instead.Following Trump's refusal, Biden's team suggested pushing the debate back a week, reports, saying, «Joe Biden was prepared to accept the C.P.D.'s proposal for a virtual Town Hall, but the president has refused, as Donald Trump clearly does not want to face questions from the voters about his failures on Covid
hereHis doctors gave him an experimental cocktail of drugs and remdesivir, which has been proven to be effective in treating the most seriously-ill patients with coronavirus.As a result of his coronavirus-positive status, it had seemed that the second debate may be at risk of not happening, unless he tested negative.But it has been announced the candidates will “participate from separate remote locations”, while the participants and moderator remain in Miami, the commission said.The debate is
The world's media reacted with a mixture of disgust, embarrassment and sorrow to Tuesday night's first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. The stop-start debate between a belligerent and bullying Trump and a harried Biden was increasingly marked by fractious back and forths, with the president repeatedly interrupting the former vice president and having to be chided by moderator Chris Wallace.
The ratings are in.
the first presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday night, and while plenty of people tuned in for what was a thoroughly confounding evening, it hasn't broken any records as of yet. Early Nielsen numbers indicate that the debate drew 29 million viewersacross the major broadcast networks: ABC brought in the largest broadcast crowd with 11 million people; NBC drew 8 million; CBS brought in 5.3 million; and Fox followed with 4.5 million.
Hollywood took little time to react to the chaotic first presidential debate on Tuesday night, with many expressing shock, disgust and even a little gallows humor over what happened. The fractious stop-start debate between President Donald Trump and the former Vice President Joe Biden was increasingly marked by fractious back and forths, with Trump repeatedly interrupting Biden and having to be chided by moderator Chris Wallace.
CNN's chief political correspondent Dana Bash described the chaotic first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden as a "s*** show" live on air during the network's postmortem of the event. The Lead host Jake Tapper opened his post-debate show with the lament that the debate"was a hot mess inside a dumpster fire inside a train wreck." He continued, "That was the worst debate I have ever seen, in fact it wasn't even a debate.
Donald Trump and Joe Biden had their first of three presidential debates on Tuesday night and it was must-see TV for any hot-blooded American citizen ahead of the November general election!
During a fractious first presidential debate, President Donald Trump failed to unequivocally denounce white supremacists and armed militia groups who have clashed violently with Black Lives Matters and police reform protestors this summer. Trump, as part of the section of the debate that dealt with law and order, was assailed by Vice President Joe Biden over his infamous "fine people on both sides" comment over a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville in 2017.
President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden squared off Tuesday night in their crucial first debate of the 2020 campaign, the most pivotal opportunity yet for them to outline starkly different visions for a country facing multiple crises. It began with a contentious exchange over the Supreme Court with Trump defending his nomination of a new justice barely a month before the election.
Ellise Shafer editorThe first debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden took place on Tuesday night, and it’s safe to say that things got heated.Moderated by Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, the 90-minute debate featured Trump refusing to condemn white supremacists, Biden telling Trump to “shut up, man,” and plenty of interruptions from both sides.
Rather than deliver a condemnation of white supremacy at the first presidential debate, President Donald Trump instead brought up the name of a neofascist far-right group and seemingly gave his support.