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Jonathan Ellis wrote in The New York Times that competitive debate promotes biased reasoning by giving debaters a specific view to work backward from rather than allowing them to come to their own unique position on a topic. [73] James Dimock, a debate coach at Minnesota State University, presented two objections to competitive debate in a 2009 ...
From foreign policy to immigration to the economy, NBC News logged the subjects the candidates touched on during the September 2024 presidential debate.
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.
Lincoln-Douglas debate tends to focus on philosophical questions, in contrast to PF. [11] Parliamentary debate is much less structured than PF, and participants are not made aware of their topics until 15–20 minutes before their round, giving them little time to research, gather evidence, and prepare their arguments. [11]
Just as Trump’s situation in some respects echoes Reagan’s in the 1980 debate, Biden’s in some ways reprises Reagan’s in the 1984 debates. Reagan then was 73, at that point the oldest ...
The June debate will take place in Atlanta, Georgia, at 9 p.m. ET. Details about the time and place of the September debate have not yet been announced. Who will moderate the debates?
The debate was moderated by Chris Wallace of Fox. [103] This marked the first instance when a Fox News host moderated a presidential debate. The topics, announced in advance of the debate, were: debt and entitlements, immigration, economy, Supreme Court, foreign hot spots, and fitness to be president. [104]
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump touched on many topics during Thursday night's presidential debate, from the economy and inflation to wars in Ukraine and Gaza, health care ...