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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.
Under the original procedure for the Electoral College, as provided in Article II, Section 1, Clause 3, each elector cast two electoral votes, with no distinction made between electoral votes for president and electoral votes for vice president. The two people chosen by the elector could not both inhabit the same state as that elector.
The presidential ballot is a vote "for the electors of a candidate" [citation needed] meaning the voter is not voting for the candidate, but endorsing a slate of electors pledged to vote for a specific presidential and vice presidential candidate. Many voting ballots allow a voter to "blanket vote" for all candidates in a particular political ...
The importance of the presidential debates is, well, debatable: many credit Kennedy’s narrow victory in 1960 with an appealing performance in the televised debate. Then-President Gerald Ford may ...
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.
A candidate had to fulfill the requirements to be president under Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution, which requires that a candidate be 35 years old and a natural-born citizen of the U.S.
A vice presidential debate in July was initially proposed, which would have taken place after the selection of a vice presidential candidate at the 2024 Republican National Convention. [29] The Biden campaign agreed to a vice presidential debate hosted by CBS News to take place on either July 23 or August 13. [179]
Presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will debate at the Constitution Center. What to know about the Philadelphia landmark. Where is the debate being held?