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With the exception of the debate between 45th President Donald J. Trump and 46th President Joseph R. Biden Jr. held on June 27, 2024, presidential debates are typically held late in the election cycle, after the political parties have nominated their candidates.
Sep 27, 2023 · The Commission on Presidential Debates modified the format of this debate stating that it would be held "virtually" because of concerns about public health due to President Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis.
May 15, 2024 · Schroeder said there are typically two or three presidential debates and one vice presidential debate per cycle.
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- Democratic Presidential Primary Debates, 2023-2024
- Noteworthy Events
- History of Televised Presidential Debates
The Democratic Party did not schedule any party-sanctioned debates during the 2024 Democratic presidential primary. Two noteworthy candidates, Dean Phillips (D) and Marianne Williamson (D) participated in a debate hosted by Sirius XM and New England College on January 8, 2024. Click here to read more. Phillips, Williamson, and Cenk Uygur (D) partic...
Biden, Trump announce they will participate in debates not sponsored by Commission on Presidential Debates
Both Joe Biden (D) and Donald Trump (R) said they do not plan on participating in debates hosted by the Commission on Presidential Debates(CPD). This will be the first time since the CPD was founded in 1987 that the major party nominees will not participate in CPD-sponsored debates. On May 15, 2024, Biden and Trump said they had accepted an invitation from CNNto participate in a debate on June 27, 2024, and an invitation from ABC News to participate in a debate on September 10, 2024. Biden Ca...
Republican National Committee calls for changes to debate process
On June 1, 2021, Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDanielwrote an open letter to the co-chairs of CPD, Frank Fahrenkopf and Kenneth Wollack, criticizing the organization's conduct during the 2020 general election and requesting changes in the 2024 presidential election cycle. McDaniel wrote, "The CPD's repeated missteps and the partisan actions of its Board Members make clear that the organization no longer provides the fair and impartial forum for presidential debates which the law...
Although the 1960 general election debate between John F. Kennedy (D) and Richard Nixon(R) is frequently cited as the first televised presidential debate, two came before it. The first televised presidential debate took place on May 21, 1956, when an ABC affiliate in Miami broadcast a Democratic primary debate between Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefa...
Jun 20, 2024 · Since the late 1980s presidential and vice-presidential debates have been arranged by the Commission on Presidential Debates. As Table 2 shows, the 2024 proposal from the commission involved three presidential debates between September 16 and October 9, 2024.
Jun 21, 2024 · To lay some groundwork for the 2024 presidential debates, we looked back at the history of presidential and vice presidential debates. Data on voters’ perceptions of the debates’ helpfulness and their decision-making process was drawn from previous Pew Research Center surveys.
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Each cycle, the CPD carefully considers early voting, religious and federal holidays, other milestone events (e.g. opening of the General Assembly of the United Nations), and White House television pool contractual conflicts, like Major League baseball, in selecting debate dates.
