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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. [114] [115] [116]
This gave candidates who did not qualify for the September debate more time to qualify for the October debate. [147] Biden, Booker, Buttigieg, Castro, Harris, Klobuchar, O'Rourke, Sanders, Warren, and Yang qualified before August 22, [148] while Steyer and Gabbard qualified on September 8 [149] and September 24 respectively. [150]
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.
Biden also pointed to predictions of a red wave for the 2022 midterms that never materialized, though he misstated the year. “Remember 2024 — 2020, the red wave was coming,” Biden said ...
Biden departed for Camp David on Thursday to take part in days of extensive debate prep — a process Trump has eschewed since he launched his 2016 presidential campaign.
Trump called for Biden to be drug tested before the presidential debate; Biden declined. Trump also claimed that Biden would use a hidden electronic earpiece for the debate, demanding that Biden's ears be searched. Again, Biden declined. [113] [114] The first debate took place at Cleveland Clinic on September 29. It was moderated by Chris Wallace.
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.
Biden gave an interview to ABC's George Stephanopoulos on July 5, where he dismissed his debate performance as a "bad episode" and rejected the idea that he had any serious health condition that ...