When is vice presidential debate 2017

A hard line against Russia is certainly a traditional Republican position - Mitt Romney embraced it in - but it's hardly where Mr Trump stands. It almost seemed like Mr Pence was more interested in making the case for conservatism the way Americans have known it over the last 30 years than mounting a spirited defence of Mr Trump's actual positions and statements. That may help some wayward Republicans return to the fold in the short term.

They need to be back in Mr Trump's column if he wants to make this presidential race competitive. Oh, and it also may not be a bad move for Mr Pence if he wants to position himself as a possible candidate for the Republican nomination. If there was one exchange that illustrated the challenges Mr Pence faced in defending Mr Trump - and how he, for the most part, survived them - it's the issue of Mr Trump's tax returns.

It's obviously an area Democrats want to exploit. Hillary Clinton hit the Republican on it multiple times in recent days, and her press aide Jennifer Palmieri told reporters at the debate site that Mr Trump's possible failure to pay income taxes gives Democrats an opening among white working-class voters.

When Mr Pence was first asked about Mr Trump's break with 40 years of tradition by not making them public, he changed the subject. When Quijado pressed him, he said the leaked tax returns highlighted by the Times showed Mr Trump went through some tough times and "brilliantly" used the tax code "just the way it's supposed to be used".

Mr Kaine pressed him on why Mr Trump has broken his pledge to release his full tax returns, and Mr Pence retreated to Mr Trump's debunked line that he could only do so after he's done being audited a process that Mr Trump himself has said has been going on for 15 years.

With results like that, it was no wonder Mr Pence would rather not talk about Mr Trump's record. He put the exchange behind him, however, and moved on to more favourable terrain. The minute debate will be divided into nine minute segments without commercial breaks. Most of the networks will offer a way to watch the debate live online, through their apps and accounts on YouTube and other social media channels. By Michelle L. Price The Associated Press. Mike Pence and Kamala Harris do not have a tough act to follow.

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 In times of uncertainty, good decisions demand good data. Please support our research with a financial contribution. It organizes the public into nine distinct groups, based on an analysis of their attitudes and values. Even in a polarized era, the survey reveals deep divisions in both partisan coalitions.

Pew Research Center now uses as the last birth year for Millennials in our work. President Michael Dimock explains why. The vast majority of U. As of September, , jobs have been lost under Trump. Obama, who took office in January , inherited the Great Recession , which began in December and lasted until June The recession and its lingering effects reduced the number of manufacturing jobs by more than 1. But after March , when manufacturing jobs hit a low of The uneven but steady rise of manufacturing jobs continued under Trump, until roughly around the time the novel coronavirus struck — although there was a slowdown in even prior to the pandemic.

However, all but 19, of those jobs were added in the first two years, as the manufacturing sector in began to slow down.

In , the economy so far has shed , manufacturing jobs — wiping out all the gains from the first three years and then some. He said we needed a magic wand to bring them back. But, he added, other jobs would not be returning — requiring retraining for the new manufacturing jobs being created. What are you going to do? What magic wand do you have? Harris: Because of a so-called trade war with China, America lost , manufacturing jobs.

The facts are contrary: The U. But even in the worst month last year October , the U. Perhaps more jobs might have been created without the tariffs. The U. Later, Pence gave a misleading impression about the link between climate change and hurricanes. Pence is correct that climate change may not be increasing the raw number of hurricanes. But it has been tied to more extreme hurricanes. And the evidence on climate change making hurricanes worse keeps getting stronger.

The greatest changes in storm severity were in the North Atlantic. Many countries that are part of the Paris pact — which is nearly the entire world — have cut their emissions by a larger percentage, according to data from the International Energy Agency. Pence said that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Biden not to concede the election to Trump, but Pence did not provide the context in which she made that remark. Clinton did not say Biden should not concede if Trump wins, as Pence suggested.

She said she believes, when all absentee and mail-in ballots are counted, Biden will be the winner, and so he should not concede if the election results are still close on Election Day. So, she urged Biden to wait because after all votes have been counted, she believes Biden will be declared the winner.

Elections experts say mail-in voting is somewhat less secure than in-person voting — and in that sense Pence has a point that there may be more opportunities for fraud — but those experts also say that mail-in voter fraud is far less prevalent than the rhetoric of the president and vice president suggest. Over the past year, Trump has made numerous false, misleading and unsupported claims about mail-in ballots, some of which we summarized in our Sept.

The candidates disagreed about how the Trump administration handled a National Security Council group dedicated to planning the national response to global health security threats, such as the COVID pandemic. The Obama administration created a group tasked with global health security and biodefense within the National Security Council in , following a yearslong Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

Shortly after Trump took office, he appointed Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer to lead the group. Bush and Obama. Responding to claims at the beginning of the COVID pandemic that the office had been dissolved, Tim Morrison, former senior director for counterproliferation and biodefense for the NSC, said that the group had been reorganized. It is this reorganization that critics have misconstrued or intentionally misrepresented.