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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 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 moderators asked 20 questions, excluding the closing. Four questions centered on the economy, four on democracy, three on foreign policy, two on immigration, two on abortion, and one each for climate change, age, opioids, race, and tax reform. [64] Moderator Jake Tapper began the debate with inflation figures. [65]
The debate took place live from WFAA’s studios in Downtown Dallas.
The Sept. 30 debate will likely be the only time Greg Abbott and Beto O'Rourke will go one-on-one before the Nov. 8 election.
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.
How did Harris and Trump do in the presidential debate? 4 key moments from their first face-off. Andrew Romano. September 11, 2024 at 8:48 AM.
The 2016 United States presidential debates were a series of debates held during the 2016 presidential election.. The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), a bipartisan organization formed in 1987, organized four debates among the major party candidates, sponsored three presidential debates and one vice presidential debate.