- New Hampshire Debate To Air on Bloomberg Television and WBIN-TV and Stream Live at washingtonpost.com/debate -
- Peter G. Peterson Foundation Serves as Non-Media Broadcast Sponsor -
New York (October 4, 2011) – Next Tuesday, October 11th at 8pm ET, Bloomberg and The Washington Post, in partnership with WBIN-TV and host Dartmouth College, will present the first debate of the 2012 campaign focused solely on the economy.
With the nation facing sustained high unemployment as well as concern over deficits, weak growth and a possible double-dip recession, the Bloomberg/Washington Post debate will devote the entire program to a substantive exploration of the candidates’ specific plans for national economic recovery -- in the state that will host the first Presidential primary a few months from now.
The October 11th debate will be moderated by Charlie Rose, Washington Post political correspondent Karen Tumulty and Bloomberg TV White House correspondent Julianna Goldman. Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, businessman Herman Cain, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum will participate in the live debate at Dartmouth College.
The candidates will outline their economic and job creation proposals in a unique format: seated side-by-side at a round table facing the hosts and surrounded by audience members. This format will facilitate serious and substantive debate on issues of vital importance to the country.
This is the first debate for Bloomberg, the global leader in financial data and information, and kicks off Bloomberg Television's comprehensive "Economy Election" coverage, featuring a robust line-up of reporters and commentators uniquely positioned to focus on the election's most pressing issues – jobs and the economy. As part of the special 2012 campaign coverage, Bloomberg Television is pleased to announce that former Senator John Sununu Jr. (R-NH) and ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd have joined the Bloomberg team to provide insight and analysis of the debate and duration of the election cycle.
The debate, which will be broadcast live on Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio and WBIN-TV in New Hampshire, will be available to viewers across multiple digital platforms including via livestream on Bloomberg.com, washingtonpost.com/debate and Bloomberg Mobile.
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation (PGPF), a non-partisan organization established by former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Pete Peterson to foster a deeper national dialogue on fiscal solutions, will serve as the exclusive non- media broadcast sponsor for the first Republican primary debate on the economy. The Peterson Foundation is sponsoring the debate as part of a broader initiative to generate a bipartisan discussion of our nation’s long-term economic and fiscal challenges throughout the 2012 presidential election.
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