In just under an hour our own Erick Erickson will be moderating the Iowa Family Leader’s U.S. Senate Family Forum. We are all very proud of Erick and know that he will do a wonderful job interrogating the Senate candidates moderating the forum.

You can watch the livestream of the forum below, while you wait you can also read how Erick plans to approach the moderation duties for tonight’s forum.

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Erick’s note from this morning:

I’m honored to be the moderator of the Iowa Family Leader’s U.S. Senate Family Forum. The Family Leader has invited all the U.S. Senate candidates in Iowa to participate. Candidates Sam Clovis, Joni Ernst, Mark Jacobs, Matt Whitaker have all chosen to participate in the event.

I don’t plan on asking the candidates their specific positions on policy X, Y, or Z. We all know where the candidates tend to stand on the policy issues. But about their world views we tend to know very little. How do they view the world, what helps them make decisions, what events in their lives shaped them, etc. are things rarely drawn from debates.

That’s what I want to focus on tonight.