In the first in our series of New Hampshire Primary 2020 Candidate Forums, we sit down before a live audience with Republican Presidential contender William Weld to get his views on domestic and foreign policies. Weld served as Republican Governor of Massachusetts in the 1990s and was the Libertarian Party's Vice Presidential nominee in the 2016 election. Click here to attend this event.

This forum will broadcast live at 9 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 8, and rebroadcasts at 7 p.m.

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The former Governor of Massachusetts entered the race for president in April, calling for his party to return to the "principles of Lincoln."

In April on The Exchange, Weld told host Peter Biello that if elected president his first order of business if would be to show some "economic conservatism." Weld said Congress has lost the political will to work in a bipartisan manner and that as Governor of Massachusetts he had a "very diverse cabinet" and met socially with Democrats.

This Business Insider piece explains Weld's positions on issues ranging from immigration and climate change to education and criminal-justice reform.

In September, Weld joined fellow Republican candidates -- former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford and former U.S. Congressman Joe Walsh -- in writing an op-ed piece criticizing four states for cancelling their Republican primaries.

Although trailing President Trump and barely registering in several polls, Weld insisted in this September 2019 Boston Globe piece that there's still plenty of time between now and the Primary for him to gain traction.