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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 first debate was hosted by New England College on January 8, 2024. [16] A second event (described as both a debate and a forum), hosted by Dan Abrams on NewsNation, took place on January 12, 2024. [17] Debates featuring at least two major candidates are included in the following table.
The debate took place live from WFAA’s studios in Downtown Dallas.
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.
But that won’t happen because Democrats have a spending problem. Texans and Americans can’t afford four more years of Kamala. — Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) September 11, 2024
Officials were expecting to spend about $5 million to host its debate and had appointed Jack Martin, a former chair of the Texas State University System’s Board of Regents, to lead fundraising.
The second debate between Biden and Trump was scheduled to occur Sept. 10, hosted by ABC. Harris has agreed to that schedule. But details on the debate are still being worked out.
The debate aired five days before 14 states voted on Super Tuesday, March 1. While the debate was to be held in partnership with Telemundo's English-language counterpart NBC, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus announced on October 30, 2015, that it had suspended the partnership in response to CNBC's "bad faith" in handling the October 28, 2015, debate.