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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.
The first televised presidential debates were held between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy during the 1960 campaign.No general election debates were held in 1964, and Nixon refused to participate in any debate in 1968 and 1972.
The debates will be hosted by news organizations rather than the Commission on Presidential Debates, from which the Republican National Committee withdrew its participation in 2022, citing ...
The 2024 presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump was held on June 27, 2024 on CNN. It was the first presidential debate of that year's United States presidential election. Joe Biden's poor performance led directly to his decision to withdraw from the presidential race one month later.
The debate is considered the first nationally televised presidential debate in history. The best-known narrative about the debate is that Nixon, then Vice President, ultimately lost the election ...
The first presidential debate between Vice President Richard Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy took place on Monday, September 26, 1960, at the WBBM-TV studios in Chicago, Illinois. The debate was moderated by Howard K. Smith of CBS with Sander Vanocur , Charles Warren, Stuart Novins and Bob Fleming as panelists.
There was one year, 1980, where there was only one debate between (Ronald) Reagan and Carter, but normally there are two or three presidential debates and one vice presidential debate per cycle.
The first "regular" presidential debate took place in Manchester New Hampshire two days before the March 7th primary. The five candidates on the ballot, Democratic front-runner Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine faced long-shots Senators George McGovern of South Dakota and Vance Hartke of Indiana; Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty; and Edward T. Coll, a 32-year-old social worker, who waved a rubber rat to ...