As of Sept. 18, only 10% of Manhattan office workers had returned to their buildings, the Wall Street Journal reported late last month.
De Blasio confirmed that City Hall had indeed been considering bringing back more of its workforce, but new developments were put on hold due to the recent COVID clusters in Brooklyn and Queens.
(23.10.2020)
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(28.09.2020)
Hunter Biden’s ex-business associate Tony Bobulinski accused Democratic nominee Joe Biden of lying about his involvement in his family’s overseas dealings in a stunning appearance just 90 minutes before Thursday evening’s presidential debate.
President Donald Trump is expected to bring a former associate of Hunter Biden as his guest to the final presidential debate on Thursday, according to FOX News.
Tony Bobulinski has claimed that Joe Biden was involved in his son’s foreign business dealings while serving as vice president, which Biden has repeatedly denied.
President Donald Trump and Joe Biden confront each other at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee at 9 p.m. ET in their final debate before the United States presidential election.
„As is the long-standing custom, and as has been promised by the Commission on Presidential Debates, we had expected that foreign policy would be the central focus of the October 22 debate,“ Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien said in a letter to the commission on Monday.
„We urge you to recalibrate the topics and return to subjects which had already been confirmed,“ Stepien wrote.
President Donald Trump‘s campaign accused the Commission on Presidential Debates of shifting the focus of Thursday‘s debate away from foreign policy in an effort to „insulate“ former Vice President Joe Biden „from his own history.“
„First, they tried to mess up the whole process with a virtual debate,“ Gidley told „The Story“ host Martha MacCallum.
„Then, all of a sudden, the last debate — which is typically about foreign policy, something we talked about with the commission early on when we agreed to the rules set forward … now what do you know?“
Announced Friday, the topics include, „Fighting COVID-19,“ „American Families,“ „Race in America,“ „Climate Change,“ National Security,“ and „Leadership.“
Speaking to Fox News on Sunday, Jason Miller, a Trump campaign senior adviser, called the debate‘s focus on foreign policy „perfect,“ pointing to what he said was Biden‘s support for „endless wars.“
NBC News’ Kristen Welker, who will moderate the next debate, announced on Monday the topics would cover Covid-19, American families, race in America, climate change, national security, and leadership.
The Commission on Presidential Debates has adopted new rules muting the microphones of President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden to give them two minutes of uninterrupted time at the beginning of each debate segment.
The news of the rule change comes just three days before the final presidential debate between Trump and Biden in Nashville.
Miller said that the debate‘s focus on foreign policy will be „perfect“ in light of Biden‘s past support for „endless wars,“ President Trump‘s success with recent peace deals, and the issue of whether the emails bearing Hunter Biden‘s name are authentic.
Yet the original design of the party-controlled general-election debate has slowly morphed from Republican Party-Democratic Party negotiation into something wholly different: a free-standing group of self-anointed, self-important Beltway Brahmins. Slowly but surely, the organization added staff, raised funds, expanded its “mission” and deepened its own sense of entitlement.
Joe Lieberman, former democrat vice presidential candidate and senator, spoke with Brian Kilmeade and criticized the Commission on Presidential Debate‘s decision to make the next debate virtual. Lieberman agrees with President Trump being upset over the decision and says he didn‘t think „to just decide“ was the way to make the announcement and that the people on the commission „have become very powerful and a little autocratic.“
Washington, D.C. (October 8, 2020) – In order to protect the health and safety of all involved with the second presidential debate, scheduled for October 15, 2020, The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) announced the following today:
The second presidential debate will take the form of a town meeting, in which the candidates would participate from separate remote locations.
(07.10.2020)
The former vice president also said he looks forward to the debate, which is set to take place next Thursday in Miami.
„I‘m looking forward to being able to debate him. But I just hope all the protocols are followed, what‘s necessary at the time,“ he said.
(02.09.2020)
„We have every reason to believe that Joe Biden, if he agrees to go forward with debates in the first place, will want to retreat to his remote video link and the Skype-call campaign he‘s been running and do the debate from his basement,“ Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh told reporters Wednesday, „where he can rely on notes, a teleprompter or a handler off camera.“
(03.09.2020)
President Donald Trump is favored to win the upcoming 2020 election debates among registered voters by a margin of 7 points, new polling data has found.
The prospect of holding the next two debates between Biden and Trump, scheduled for Oct. 15 and Oct. 22, was thrown into question after the president announced last week that he and first lady Melania Trump tested positive for the coronavirus.
In Wahrheit sind TV-Debatten für den Wahlausgang maßlos überschätzt. Laut einer Harvard-Studie haben sie in den USA erst einmal Einfluss auf den Wahlausgang gehabt, als der junge John F. Kennedy den schwitzenden Richard Nixon in die Tasche steckte. Viel entscheidender, so die Analysen, sind Nachrichten und Berichterstattung über eine längere Zeit.