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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 second presidential debate between President Gerald Ford and former Governor Jimmy Carter took place on Wednesday, October 6, 1976, at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, California. The debate was moderated by Pauline Frederick of NPR, who posed the questions for each candidate.
Texas State University pledged $5 million to host the debate. The new agreed upon debates will not be hosted by the Commission on Presidential Debates.
Texas has two uniform election dates, the first Saturday in May, and the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. [7] As of 2024, 99.5 percent of registered voters in Texas are in jurisdictions using voting methods with some form of auditable paper ballot, an established best practice for recounts and audits. [8]
The two-person debate did not materialize, and Carter declined to debate alongside Anderson. [4] The vice presidential debate was canceled on September 29, days before it was scheduled to be held. George H. W. Bush and Walter Mondale refused to attend, leaving only Anderson's running mate Patrick Lucey accepting the invitation. [5]
The pleasantries were short-lived in a Tuesday night debate between two-term Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and Democratic U.S. Rep. Colin Allred as they met face-to-face at WFAA studios in Dallas for ...
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Some textbooks used in Texas schools still included references to human evolution, though these were often minimized or presented in a way that downplayed the theory. [7] On March 12, 1926, the Mississippi House of Representatives passed an anti-human evolution law with a vote of 78–16. [8]