The following table provides an overview of the date, location, and host in each scheduled general election debate. That is how we will put our nominee in the strongest position possible to defeat Donald Trump, and how we will help elect Democrats up and down the ballot," DNC Chairman Tom Perez said. More than two dozen primary and general election debates took place during the presidential election cycle.
The first general election presidential debate took place on September 26, , in New York. An estimated 84 million people tuned in to the first debate, a record in the history of presidential debates. Two more general election debates were held on October 9, , at Washington University and on October 19, , at the University of Nevada.
Democrats held nine primary debates. Although the general election debate between John F. Kennedy D and Richard Nixon R is frequently cited as the first televised presidential debate, two came before it. Margaret Chase Smith R , respectively.
The Kennedy-Nixon debates that took place four years later showed the importance of television as a visual medium, "Nixon, pale and underweight from a recent hospitalization, appeared sickly and sweaty, while Kennedy appeared calm and confident. As the story goes, those who listened to the debate on the radio thought Nixon had won. But those listeners were in the minority.
Those that watched the debate on TV thought Kennedy was the clear winner. While a handful of presidential primary debates were held between and , the televised presidential debate did not become a staple of American politics until The following chart shows the number of presidential and vice presidential debates that took place in each election cycle between and The following table shows the date, location, and moderators for each presidential debate between and Ballotpedia features , encyclopedic articles written and curated by our professional staff of editors, writers, and researchers.
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Below, we break down all the information you need to watch the debates, including the dates, times, and moderators. After a disastrous first debate, in which the two contenders loudly talked over both each other and the moderator, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced that the microphones for both Biden and Trump will be periodically muted during the last debate. The debate format will remain the same: Each candidate will have two minutes to answer a question uninterrupted.
Thereafter, the two will be allowed to freely engage with each other for the rest of the segment. The difference this go-round: The mic of the opposing candidate will be muted during the other's two minutes.
Three debates were originally scheduled to take place before the general election, as confirmed by the Commission on Presidential Debates , but the second was canceled. Each debate will start at 9 p. ET and run for 90 minutes with no commercial breaks. If you don't have TV access, you can also watch livestreams via the above networks' YouTube channels.
Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh said in a statement, per the Times , "These are not the moderators we would have recommended if the campaign had been allowed to have any input. Some can be identified as clear opponents of President Trump, meaning Joe Biden will actually have a teammate on stage most of the time to help him excuse the radical, leftist agenda he is carrying.
Meanwhile, Andrew Bates, a spokesman for the Biden campaign, said in a statement, per BBC , "As Joe Biden has said for months—without farcical antics—he looks forward to participating in the debates set by the commission, regardless of who the independently chosen moderators are. According to the Commission's website , moderators are selected based on three criteria: familiarity with the candidates and major issues within their campaigns, extensive experience in live broadcast news, and "an understanding that the debate should focus maximum time and attention on the candidates and their views.
Biden's town hall aired at 8 p. About 21 voters of varying political stripes asked the Democratic presidential nominee questions. Nonetheless, the show went on, with a near-unwatchable first debate on September 29 in Cleveland, and a markedly more coherent vice-presidential debate on October 7 in Salt Lake City. Rather than holding a virtual debate, each candidate instead held his own televised town hall.
And now, we have arrived at the last stop on the train. According to the Washington Post , the commission winnowed the number of moderators down to one per night, in its first pandemic concession, and promised to stick to CDC health guidelines. Neither the candidates nor the moderator wore masks, and the audience was capped at 75 to 80 attendees, all of whom were required to be tested beforehand.
Effective coronavirus risk management was not the only challenge that arose during debate number one. How to keep the president from shouting over both Biden and the moderator, and from lying ad nauseam, remain open questions heading into the final round. When: Thursday, October 22, from 9 to p. Where: Belmont University in Nashville.
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