The St. Petersburg Times, NBC News, National Journal and the Florida Council of 100 on Monday confirmed new details for their previously announced Republican presidential primary debate.
The GOP debate will air live on NBC on Monday, Jan. 23, from a small theater on the Tampa campus of the University of South Florida. NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams will moderate, along with a panel including Times political editor Adam C. Smith.
The Florida primary is Tuesday, Jan. 31. The debate will follow the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries.
“Florida will be at the center of next year’s presidential election, and this is the state where national issues like the economy and health care loom especially large,” said Paul Tash, Times chairman and CEO.
This will be the first weekday prime time airing of a primary debate on a broadcast network in the 2012 election cycle. Telemundo also will broadcast the debate, which was first announced in April, in its entirety with simultaneous Spanish-language translation. The event will stream live on tampabay.com and usf.edu.
It also marks the third time the St. Petersburg Times and USF have partnered to produce nationally televised political debates. The first was the vice presidential debate in 1996; the second a series of back-to-back U.S. Senate and gubernatorial debates a year ago.
A question for Gov Perry. Why did it take Texas more than a year to pay Rescuers for our Hurricane Ike rescues? FEMA showed me the fransfer of funds 90 days or so after we were done. Yet according to your own state's comptroller; You Gov Perry would not authorise payments or late fees and legal penalties to be paid.
Posted by: Robert Jenkins | October 24, 2011 at 12:56 PM
QUESTION FOR ALL THE CANDIDATES:
YOUR VIEW IS OBAMA IS BAD FOR THE ECONOMY- HERE ARE THE FACTS- ON DEC.31 2008 THE DOW JONES CLOSED AT 8862 - ON JAN 20 2012 IT CLOSED AT
12760.
ON DEC. 31 2008 UNEMPLOYMENT WAS AT 7% AND REACHED A HIGH OF 8.9% IN 2009. IT HAS BEEN SLOWLY FALLING SINCE THEN AND IS NOW AT 8.5 %. OVER 2.5 MILLION JOBS HAVE BEEN CREATED (LESS THAN WE WOULD LIKE OF COURSE)
THE GDP GROWTH IN 2ND QUARTER 2009 WAS THE WORST AT A NEGATIVE 6.8% FOR THE QUARTER. SINCE THEN IT HAS BEEN POSITIVE EVERY QUARTER.
WHY IS OBAMA THEN CONSIDERED A BAD PRESIDENT? COULD MCCAIN HAVE DONE BETTER?
PAT
Posted by: Pat Balan | January 22, 2012 at 03:20 PM