WLKY will present the first of many Presidential Forums on August 3, featuring 14 Presidential candidates including Kentucky Senator Rand Paul. The Voters First Forum, produced and hosted by New Hampshire’s Union Leader newspaper and C-Span will be broadcast on WLKY and streamed live on WLKY.com [4] from 7pm to 9pm ET.
“This is an important opportunity for our viewers to see this first event featuring most of the 2016 GOP candidates together answering questions in a journalistic framework,” said Glenn Haygood, WLKY President and General Manager.
The two-hour forum will be televised live from the Dana Center at St. Anselm College in Goffstown, New Hampshire, on Monday, August 3. Jack Heath of Manchester’s WGIR-AM Radio and host of New Hampshire Today will moderate the forum. The following candidates are scheduled to appear:
Jeb Bush (R) - Former Governor of Florida
Ben Carson (R) – Neurosurgeon and author
Chris Christie (R) – Governor of New Jersey
Ted Cruz (R) – Senator from Texas
Carly Fiorina (R) - Former Hewlett-Packard CEO
Lindsey Graham(R) - Senator from South Carolina
Bobby Jindal (R) - Governor of Louisiana
John Kasich (R) - Governor of Ohio
George Pataki (R) – Former Governor of New York
Rand Paul (R) – Senator from Kentucky
Rick Perry (R) - Former Governor of Texas
Marco Rubio (R) – Senator from Florida
Rick Santorum (R) – Former Senator from Pennsylvania
Scott Walker (R) – Governor of Wisconsin
Each candidate will be given 5 minutes to answer questions individually on stage.
WLKY’s parent company Hearst Television Inc, a Peabody and Cronkite award winning leader in television and digital political journalism, is sharing the C-Span feed with WLKY and 27 other stations across the United States. Hearst Television collectively reaches 21 million households.