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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 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.
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]
Melania Trump broke a long-standing tradition by not attending the 2024 presidential debate on Thursday evening.. The former first lady was nowhere to be seen when Trump deboarded his plane in ...
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.
Opinion: Trump called the first general election debate of the 2024 season a waste of time, and for once, I couldn't agree more with him.
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.
Leading up to the debate, there were concerns that both Biden and Trump might refuse to participate in any debates at all. Trump chose not to appear at a scheduled debate during the 2020 general election, in addition to any of the 2024 Republican primary debates. [3]