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The only vice presidential debate between Senator Bob Dole and Senator Walter Mondale took place on Friday, October 15, 1976, in the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas. It was the first vice presidential debate in American history. [4] [5] James Hoge of Chicago Sun-Times posed the questions for each candidate.
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.
September 23 – The first presidential debate of the 1976 presidential election takes place. September 24 – Patty Hearst is sentenced to seven years in prison for her role in the armed robbery of a San Francisco bank in 1974 (an executive clemency order from President Jimmy Carter will set her free after only 22 months).
Debates did not take place again until the 1976 election, and from then on, took place in front of live audiences that were instructed to not make noise aside from the beginning and ends of the ...
For instance, some 73 million people viewed the first Biden-Trump presidential debate in the lead-up to the 2020 election. Patrick Stewart, a political science professor at the University of ...
Before tonight, the earliest debate between Republican and Democratic nominees for president was on September 23, 1976, when then-President Gerald Ford debated Jimmy Carter. ... For the first time ...
A vice-presidential debate, the first formal one of its kind, [42] between Bob Dole and Walter Mondale also hurt the Republican ticket when Dole asserted that military unpreparedness on the part of Democratic presidents was responsible for all of the wars the U.S. had fought in the 20th century. Dole, a World War II veteran, noted that in every ...
After the third debate between Al Gore and George W. Bush in 2000, though, debate ratings have mostly trended upward—the first Trump-Biden debate in 2020 had a rating of 40.2. Get alerts on the ...