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CBS News
October 29, 2020
CBS NEWS WILL PRESENT “THE DECIDERS” A ONE-HOUR PRIMETIME SPECIAL EXPLORING THE CHANGING AMERICAN ELECTORATE AS THE COUNTRY NEARS ELECTION DAY
NORAH O’DONNELL WILL ANCHOR THE SPECIAL, WHICH FEATURES REPORTING BY GAYLE KING, JAMES BROWN, MARIA ELENA SALINAS, ELAINE QUIJANO, JERICKA DUNCAN, MARK STRASSMANN AND JONATHAN VIGLIOTTI
As the presidential election nears, CBS News journalists will report from around the country on the diverse and changing voices who will ultimately choose who the next president will be, in THE DECIDERS, a one-hour primetime special to be broadcast Friday, Oct. 30 (9:00-10:00 PM) on the CBS Television Network.CBS EVENING NEWS anchor and managing editor Norah O’Donnell will anchor THE DECIDERS. The special features the reporting of CBS THIS MORNING co-host Gayle King, CBS News special correspondent James Brown, CBS News contributor Maria Elena Salinas, CBSN anchor Elaine Quijano, CBS News national correspondent Jericka Duncan and CBS News correspondents Mark Strassmann and Jonathan Vigliotti.
“This election has been called the most important in modern history,” says Alvin Patrick, executive producer of THE DECIDERS. “Lawn signs and social media posts don’t decide elections. People do. We are talking with voters from around the country to find out who they will choose as the next president and why.”
THE DECIDERS will explore who makes up the voting blocs around the country and their potential influence in the election outcome. This election promises to have a record turnout. Will one of the voting blocs break out and really make an impact on who becomes the next president of the United States?
Here are a sample of the reports:
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CBS THIS MORNING co-host Gayle King profiles
white female voters, including an ardent Trump
supporter in Texas, a Connecticut woman who
regrets her Trump vote in 2016 and an elusive
undecided voter in Florida.
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CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann looks
at white male voters who traditionally lean
Republican, including some who are feeling
buyer’s remorse after the devastating health
and economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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CBS News special correspondent James Brown
reports on the traditionally
Democratic-leaning Black vote, but also looks
into the slight uptick in support for Donald
Trump among Black men.
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CBS News contributor Maria Elena Salinas talks
with Latino Americans – a rapidly growing
demographic – in Florida and Arizona where
political views are varied and diverse, and
may play into the outcome of the election.
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CBSN anchor Elaine Quijano reports on the
growing Asian American voting power and
profiles a pro-Trump business owner as well as
other voters who support Biden in Wisconsin
and Nevada.
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CBS News correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti
explores the LGTBQ voting bloc which includes
voters concerned about issues like adoptions
and transgender rights.
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CBS News national correspondent Jericka Duncan
profiles young voters on opposite sides of the
country and on opposing sides of the political
debate.
THE DECIDERS is from CBS News’ Race and Culture Unit. Kim Godwin is the senior executive producer of THE DECIDERS. Alvin Patrick and Mitch Weitzner are the executive producers. Susan Zirinsky is president and senior executive producer of CBS News.
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