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Incumbent U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz listens as U.S. Rep. Colin Allred speaks during their first Senate debate on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024, in Dallas, Texas.
If either major party nominee chooses not to attend a general election debate, it would be the second consecutive time its happened, the first being the 2020 debates, when President Trump refused to attend the second debate with Biden because it would have been virtual rather than in person following Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis. [13]
The series of seven debates in 1858 between Abraham Lincoln and Senator Stephen A. Douglas for U.S. Senate were true, face-to-face debates, with no moderator; the candidates took it in turns to open each debate with a one-hour speech, then the other candidate had an hour and a half to rebut, and finally the first candidate closed the debate with a half-hour response.
The debate had a total of 57.9 million viewers on TV and had the second-largest television audience of any U.S. vice presidential debate; it was watched by an estimated 22 million more people than the amount who watched the 2016 vice presidential debate, falling behind the only debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden in 2008.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) and Rep. Colin Allred (D) squared off Tuesday in their only debate before Election Day, sparring about the border and abortion amid signs of a surprisingly competitive race ...
With just one week until early voting begins in Texas, Republican Senator Ted Cruz and Democratic candidate Colin Allred (TX-34) will engage in their only debate of the 2024 Texas Senate race on ...
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Texas, ordered by year.Since its admission to statehood in 1845, Texas has participated in every U.S. presidential election except the 1864 election during the American Civil War, when the state had seceded to join the Confederacy, and the 1868 election, when the state was undergoing Reconstruction.
The debate between Cruz, a Republican who has represented Texas in the Senate since 2013, and Allred, a Democrat who represents the Dallas-area in Congress, is this first between the candidates ...