A. Open Extemp Event Prompts
Round 1 - 9:00 a.m. Pacific
Speaker 1
Why is COVID-19 resurging in Europe, despite more aggressive efforts to combat the pandemic there?
Is it irresponsible for elected officials to order COVID shutdowns without providing aid to businesses and their workers?
What is COVID-19's biggest impact to Mexico?
Speaker 2
Will Emergency Use Authorizations of COVID-19 vaccines undermine public confidence in the resulting product?
Will Americans use a COVID-19 vaccine on a widespread basis?
What is COVID-19's biggest impact to America?
Speaker 3
What is COVID-19's biggest impact to China?
Will rising COVID numbers disrupt the economy again in early 2021?
Should small businesses ignore government orders to close?
Speaker 4
What is COVID-19's biggest impact to Europe?
Why aren't homeless populations being affected by COVID as much as predicted?
What US governor has handled COVID the worst?
Speaker 5
What is COVID-19's biggest impact to Africa?
What can Los Angeles do to help their restaurant industry recover?
Should Americans require COVID vaccines?
Speaker 6
What is COVID-19's biggest impact to Latin America?
Has COVID kileld NYC?
Will the economic impact to COVID lockdowns be more devastating than the disease?
Speaker 7
What is COVID-19's biggest impact to India?
What US governor has best handled COVID?
Should Pfizer's vaccine be approved so quickly?
Round 2 - 10:30 a.m. Pacific
Speaker 1
Will Biden and a Democratic Congress ‘pack’ the Supreme Court?
How will Biden address inequality in 2021?
Should Congress grant the necessary waiver from the requirement that any former military officer serving as Secretary of Defense be at least seven years from active duty to Joe Biden's nominee Gen. Lloyd Austin III?
Speaker 2
Who should Joe Biden nominate for Attorney General?
Will President Biden increase regulation of Wall Street firms during his presidency?
How will a new Democratic administration address environmental policy changes made by the Trump administration?
Speaker 3
Is Kamala Harris the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate for 2024?
Does Trump have a shot at a SCOTUS victory?
Who should Biden nominate for Attorney General?
Speaker 4
Are Biden’s cabinet picks too conventional to satisfy the Democratic progressives?
Should Congress remove the president’s abilities to make executive orders?
What is the kraken, and will it ever see the light of day?
Speaker 5
Will Trump run for president again in 2024?
Will Biden tap Garcetti for a cabinet position?
If Biden assumes office, what is the first Trump policy he should overturn?
Speaker 6
Will Biden tap Newsom for a cabinet position?
Will someone with better judicial standing attempt to pick up the the Texas SCOTUS lawsuit?
Has Biden left BLM behind?
Speaker 7
Will Biden tap Newsom for a cabinet position?
Who is the presumptive Republican presidential candidate for 2024?
Should a national lockdown be the first order of business in 2021?
Round 3 - 12:00 Pacific
Speaker 1
Will Biden’s influence sink the economy in 2021?
What are the potential harms to another COVID stimulus?
After the pandemic, will inflation be the new concern for the American economy?
Speaker 2
Should Trump receive credit for the economic recovery from COVID?
Will Chinese state-owned companies be the cause for slow economic recovery?
Why haven’t economic forecasts accelerated since the vaccine was announced?
Speaker 3
After the pandemic, will inflation be the new concern for the global economy?
Will Dee Dee Myers make a difference in the California economy?
What can be done to counter unemployment in a locked-down US?
Speaker 4
Are Newsom’s policies pushing businesses out of California?
Will the United States play a role in bailing out the post-COVID European financial sector?
Should the US create more economic relief packages like Canada’s?
Speaker 5
Are Cuomo’s policies pushing small businesses out of New York?
Will Pfizer save the economy?
Should the European Central Bank have expanded their relief programs?
Speaker 6
How will the economy handle the destruction of so many small businesses?
How will the slowdown of US population growth affect the 2021 economy?
Will Trump’s deregulation blitz be favorable to the US economy?
Speaker 7
Will Biden’s preoccupation with climate change spell doom for the economy?
Why are mortgage rates falling?
How will declines in tourism affect the economy?