Pew notes one exception to this, however. The vice-presidential debate between Biden and Sarah Palin was watched by over 69 million people, which is more than any of the three presidential debates during that year. Click here to join our channel indianexpress and stay updated with the latest headlines. Explained: How important are US presidential and vice-presidential debates? Have presidential debates ever been conducted remotely? Coronavirus Explained.
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In total, the Commission on Presidential Debates planned to host three presidential debates and one vice-presidential debate this year. The second presidential debate was initially expected to take place at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Thursday, October 15, but in June, the institution withdrew from hosting the event due to health concerns amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis.
Biden's campaign agreed to the format change, but Trump refused to participate. Frank Fahrenkopf, head of the debate commission, told CNN that they "did not consult" the campaigns regarding the decision, but said that the move is "supported by the Cleveland Clinic," which is advising the committee on health concerns.
Previously, it was to be held the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. In late July, the institution withdrew from hosting due to concerns about the pandemic. Following Trump's diagnosis, a number of heath and safety measures were implemented for the VP debate, including spacing the candidates' podiums 12 feet apart. More info here. He criticized strict shutdowns in Democratic-run states and said Biden would shut down the country. Trump said he paid millions in federal income tax in and As a businessman, Trump said he did not want to pay taxes and used tax credits and depreciation.
Trump said the Obama administration had the slowest economic recovery since , while he brought back manufacturing and , jobs. He said he had support from military leaders and law enforcement groups across the country. Trump said he ended racial sensitivity training because it was racist. Trump said increases in crime across the country were a party issue. When asked if he would condemn white supremacist and militia groups, Trump said sure.
He said the Proud Boys should stand back and stand by and that someone should do something about Antifa. Trump said he created the greatest economy and lowest unemployment numbers in history prior to COVID He said that he will have appointed federal judges.
Trump attributed West Coast wildfires to poor forest management. He said he rolled back the Obama Clean Power Plan because it drove up energy prices. He said there was no free transition in because Democrats sought a coup on his campaign.
He said unsolicited mail-in ballots would lead to fraud. The Commission on Presidential Debates CPD used the following criteria to select candidates to participate in the general election presidential debates: [12].
The University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana , was originally scheduled to host the first presidential debate but withdrew in response to the coronavirus pandemic. On July 27, , the event was moved to Cleveland, Ohio. Mark Schlissel, the president of the University of Michigan, said the complexity of preparing for a safe reopening during the coronavirus pandemic made hosting the debate unfeasible.
In August , Rudy Giuliani sent a letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates on behalf of the Trump campaign requesting a fourth debate be held in early September before states began to send out absentee ballots. If not, Giuliani said the third debate should be moved from October 22, , to the first week in September.
The commission rejected the request to add a fourth debate or alter the schedule. The Trump campaign previously requested that the commission organize a fourth debate in June In a phone call with Frank Fahrenkopf, the co-chair of the commission, Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale said, "We want fair debates.
We want them sooner and we want a bigger schedule. The Trump campaign also requested that both campaigns be permitted to select and veto moderators. The Biden campaign responded in a letter to the commission, "Our position is straightforward and clear: Biden will accept the Commission's debates, on the Commission's dates, under the Commission's established format and the Commission's independent choice of moderators.
The following table provides an overview of the date, location, host, and number of participants in each scheduled Democratic presidential primary debate. Although the 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. Margaret Chase Smith R , respectively. The Kennedy-Nixon debates that took place four years later showed the importance of television as a visual medium, "Nixon, pale and underweight from a recent hospitalization, appeared sickly and sweaty, while Kennedy appeared calm and confident.
As the story goes, those who listened to the debate on the radio thought Nixon had won. But those listeners were in the minority. Those that watched the debate on TV thought Kennedy was the clear winner. While a handful of presidential primary debates were held between and , the televised presidential debate did not become a staple of American politics until The following chart shows the number of presidential and vice presidential debates that took place in each election cycle between and The following table shows the date, location, and moderators for each presidential debate between and More than two dozen primary and general election debates took place during the presidential election cycle.
The first general election presidential debate took place on September 26, , in New York. An estimated 84 million people tuned in to the first debate, a record in the history of presidential debates. Two more general election debates were held on October 9, , at Washington University and on October 19, , at the University of Nevada. Democrats held nine primary debates. Ballotpedia features , encyclopedic articles written and curated by our professional staff of editors, writers, and researchers.
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When asked about his administration's policy of separating the children from the parents of undocumented migrants, for instance, Trump tried to turn the conversation to the detention facilities - "cages," in Trump's term - created by the Obama administration to house unaccompanied minor immigrants. Biden, flashing indignation, noted that the children Trump was detaining came over with their parents and that the policy was making the US a "laughing stock".
For many American voters, the audio of separated children crying for their parents may still be relatively fresh in their minds. Trump's response, that those children were "so well taken care of," in "facilities that are so clean" probably didn't help his cause. In the first presidential debate, Trump talked himself into trouble when the topic turned to race relations, as he danced around whether to directly condemn white supremacist groups.
This time around, the president was considerably more nimble. He boasted about his cross-party criminal justice reform and funding for historically black colleges. He attacked Biden for his sponsorship of a draconian crime bill in the s that led to a sharp rise in the number of black Americans in prisons. And, perhaps most potently, when Biden began talking about his proposals for reform, he questioned why the former vice-president didn't accomplish more when he served with President Barack Obama.
You had eight years to get it done. Anyone who lived through the "tough on crime" s in the US would probably be shocked by this debate exchange, where both candidates talked about the number of felons to whom they gave clemency and their efforts at reducing the number of incarcerated Americans. As the mass demonstrations against institutional racism demonstrated earlier this year, the times have indeed changed. Kamala Harris halts trips after aide gets Covid Trump's son Barron had Covid, says first lady.
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