INTRO:
It may be 16 months until America votes for its next president but campaigning is well underway.
Donald Trump has already launched his re-election bid in Florida.
On Tuesday 20 candidates from the crowded democratic field will also head to the crucial swing state for two nights of televised debates.
Kate Fisher reports
In: His idea
Out: SOC
Dur: 2'12"
http://www.fsnradionews.com/feeds/20190625DEM-DEBATE-KF.mp3
SCRIPT
<<Biden on stump>>
VO: Former Vice President Joe Biden is the best known of the 24 democrats competing to take on Donald Trump for the presidency.
UPSOT: Joe Biden
<<Biden on stump>>
VO: That name recognition is helping - he's currently leading in the polls.
<<Yang on stump>>
VO: Others, like entrepreneur Andrew Yang don't enjoy that advantage.
<<Yang taking selfies with supporters>>
VO: The debates this week will offer less well known contenders their first opportunity to break out from the pack.
UPSOT: Supporter to Andrew Yang
"What you said is exactly what we need"
VO: But to spread their message further, the candidates are looking for ways to shine in such a vast field. Karlyn Bowman in a publc opinion analyst at the American Enterprise Institute
SOT: Karlyn Bowman, American Enterprise Institute
"Each candidate will have so little time to identify himself, to tell voters what's going to be different about them. It'll be interesting to see whether they stick to their own biographies, which you think that they might do in a big field like this, or whether they attack the frontrunner, Joe Biden,"
Associate editor of the Hill politcal newspaper Niall Stanage says the big field also brings other complexities - There are so many candidates they have to be split across two nights of debates.
SOT: NIALL STANAGE, THE HILL
"I think it's a complicating factor for senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts in particular. She's someone who has shown quite a lot of momentum recently. But she is on the first debate night with no other of the top five candidates with her. We have to see how that plays for Warren. If I were her I wouldn't be thrilled by that because it can look as if she's in a junior debate."
<<candidates b'roll or Florida b'roll if we have it or agency Miami b'roll>>
VO: It's no accident that the Democrats have chosen to debate in Florida. In the past 50 years only Bill Clinton in 1992 has managed to win the presidency without it.
Just last week President Trump was in Florida to rally his supporters. NOw it's the turn of his opponents. MOre evidence that both democrats and republicans know they must win that key state of Florida, if they want to win the White House. Kate Fisher, Washington
It may be 16 months until America votes for its next president but campaigning is well underway.
Donald Trump has already launched his re-election bid in Florida.
On Tuesday 20 candidates from the crowded democratic field will also head to the crucial swing state for two nights of televised debates.
Kate Fisher reports
In: His idea
Out: SOC
Dur: 2'12"
http://www.fsnradionews.com/feeds/20190625DEM-DEBATE-KF.mp3
SCRIPT
<<Biden on stump>>
VO: Former Vice President Joe Biden is the best known of the 24 democrats competing to take on Donald Trump for the presidency.
UPSOT: Joe Biden
<<Biden on stump>>
VO: That name recognition is helping - he's currently leading in the polls.
<<Yang on stump>>
VO: Others, like entrepreneur Andrew Yang don't enjoy that advantage.
<<Yang taking selfies with supporters>>
VO: The debates this week will offer less well known contenders their first opportunity to break out from the pack.
UPSOT: Supporter to Andrew Yang
"What you said is exactly what we need"
VO: But to spread their message further, the candidates are looking for ways to shine in such a vast field. Karlyn Bowman in a publc opinion analyst at the American Enterprise Institute
SOT: Karlyn Bowman, American Enterprise Institute
"Each candidate will have so little time to identify himself, to tell voters what's going to be different about them. It'll be interesting to see whether they stick to their own biographies, which you think that they might do in a big field like this, or whether they attack the frontrunner, Joe Biden,"
Associate editor of the Hill politcal newspaper Niall Stanage says the big field also brings other complexities - There are so many candidates they have to be split across two nights of debates.
SOT: NIALL STANAGE, THE HILL
"I think it's a complicating factor for senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts in particular. She's someone who has shown quite a lot of momentum recently. But she is on the first debate night with no other of the top five candidates with her. We have to see how that plays for Warren. If I were her I wouldn't be thrilled by that because it can look as if she's in a junior debate."
<<candidates b'roll or Florida b'roll if we have it or agency Miami b'roll>>
VO: It's no accident that the Democrats have chosen to debate in Florida. In the past 50 years only Bill Clinton in 1992 has managed to win the presidency without it.
Just last week President Trump was in Florida to rally his supporters. NOw it's the turn of his opponents. MOre evidence that both democrats and republicans know they must win that key state of Florida, if they want to win the White House. Kate Fisher, Washington