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The 1996 United States presidential debates were a series of debates held during the 1996 presidential election. The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), a bipartisan organization formed in 1987, organized three debates among the major party candidates, sponsored two presidential debates and one vice presidential debate.
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.
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 5, 1996. Incumbent Democratic President Bill Clinton and his running mate, incumbent Democratic Vice President Al Gore were re-elected to a second and final term, defeating the Republican ticket of former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp and the Reform ticket of ...
Sen. John F. Kennedy, left, and Vice President Richard Nixon, right, participate in a presidential debate in Washington, DC, in October 1960. - Bettmann Archive/Getty Images
Not a good night for Biden. Not a proud night for Trump. A sad night for the United States. That’s my take after watching the presidential debate, but I didn’t watch alone.
Mickey Guyton and Jason Isbell performed on Aug. 18, which had a theme of “For the People” and at which President Biden addressed the convention. (James Taylor got bumped for time.)
Biden reached the delegate threshold needed to secure the nomination in June 2020. [6] He defeated incumbent president Donald Trump in the general election, with 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232. Biden received more than 81 million votes, the most votes ever cast for a candidate in a U.S. presidential election. [7]
In the debate Thursday, Biden criticized his rival’s approach to Putin and Trump said the president’s policy on Israel meant he was effectively a “very bad Palestinian” as the foreign ...