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The first debate will take place in September.The Commission on Presidential Debates will host three presidential debates and one vice-presidential debate later this year. As is tradition, the debates to be held at universities.
The first presidential debate, when the incumbent President Trump will face off against Joe Biden for the first time, was to be held on Tuesday, September 29 at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. In late July, the institution withdrew from hosting due to concerns about the pandemic.
"I am grateful to the many members of the University community who have devoted countless hours planning this event, and to the Commission on Presidential Debates leadership for their professionalism and understanding," said Rev. John Jenkins, the president of Notre Dame, in a statement, per CNN. "But in the end, the constraints the coronavirus pandemic put on the event -- as understandable and necessary as they are -- have led us to withdraw."
The first debate will now be held at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
Similarly, the second presidential debate was expected to take place at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Thursday, October 15, but in June, they too withdrew from hosting the event due to health concerns amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis.
“It is with great disappointment that I must ask for the University of Michigan to be released from its agreement with the Commission on Presidential Debates to host the Presidential Debate on Oct. 15, 2020,” Michigan’s president, Mark Schlissel, said in a statement.
“In consideration of the public health guidelines in our state as well as advice from our own experts — we feel it is not feasible for us to safely host the presidential debate as planned.’’
The replacement location for the second debate is Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami. The final debate is still set for Thursday, October 22 at Belmont University in Nashville.
Despite the changes in location, all three debates are expected to begin at 9 p.m. ET, and will run for 90 minutes without any commercial breaks.
Chris Wallace, Steve Scully and Kristen Welker will moderate the debates.The New York Times confirmed the news in early September, noting that each debate will have one moderator.
The vice presidential debate will take place in October.The first and only debate between current VP Mike Pence and Biden's newly named running mate, Kamala Harris is set for Wednesday, October 7 at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City in Kingsbury Hall on President's Circle.
The debate will start at 9 p.m. ET and will run for 90 minutes without commercial interruption. Susan Page of USA Today will moderate. Additional details regarding the format will be announced by the Commission on Presidential Debates in the coming months
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/societ...-schedule/
The debates may look very different from the norm.The final Democratic primary debate, which was held March 15 in the shadow of the snowballing pandemic, offered a preview of what we can likely expect from the presidential debate. The face-off between Biden and Sanders was held without a live audience, began with an elbow bump in lieu of a handshake, and saw the candidates' podiums carefully positioned six feet apart.
There is no way to know exactly how things will look by September–much depends on how the disease continues to unfold across the US, and how long social distancing measures are kept in place. Experts have already warned that the fall could bring a resurgence of the disease following a reduction of cases through the summer, which means September could be precisely the time more strict measures are required again.
Between the logistical challenges and the sheer political upheaval that several more months of COVID-19 will have caused, it's safe to assume this will be a presidential debate unlike any other.
The presidential debates for the 2020 election kick off Tuesday in Cleveland, and many Americans are uncertain about what to expect. One thing is for sure: Fox News Sunday anchor and moderator Chris Wallace will not be tasked with fact-checking the candidates in real-time.
"We don't expect Chris or our other moderators to be fact checkers," Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr., co-chair, The Commission on Presidential Debates, told CNN's Chief Media Correspondent Brian Stelter on "Reliable Sources" Sunday. "The minute the TV is off there will be plenty of fact checkers."
The topics for Tuesday's debate, selected by Wallace himself, include: Trump and Biden's records, the Supreme Court, Covid-19, the economy, race and violence in our cities, and the integrity of the election.
If one of the candidates says something incorrect onstage Tuesday, it is the other candidate's job to raise concern and essentially fact check live, Fahrenkopf said.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/27/media/wallace-fact-check-reliable/index.html
Should be interesting, looking forward to watching!
Quote: @purplefaithful said:
The presidential debates for the 2020 election kick off Tuesday in Cleveland, and many Americans are uncertain about what to expect. One thing is for sure: Fox News Sunday anchor and moderator Chris Wallace will not be tasked with fact-checking the candidates in real-time.
"We don't expect Chris or our other moderators to be fact checkers," Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr., co-chair, The Commission on Presidential Debates, told CNN's Chief Media Correspondent Brian Stelter on "Reliable Sources" Sunday. "The minute the TV is off there will be plenty of fact checkers."
The topics for Tuesday's debate, selected by Wallace himself, include: Trump and Biden's records, the Supreme Court, Covid-19, the economy, race and violence in our cities, and the integrity of the election.
If one of the candidates says something incorrect onstage Tuesday, it is the other candidate's job to raise concern and essentially fact check live, Fahrenkopf said.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/27/media/wallace-fact-check-reliable/index.html
Amazing things are so rough here that Climate Change doesn't even have a topic spot in the first presidential debate.
BTW Chris Wallace is a classic journo, old school, glad he was chosen as a moderator.
Should be interesting . .
Quote: @Skodin said:
@ purplefaithful said:
The presidential debates for the 2020 election kick off Tuesday in Cleveland, and many Americans are uncertain about what to expect. One thing is for sure: Fox News Sunday anchor and moderator Chris Wallace will not be tasked with fact-checking the candidates in real-time.
"We don't expect Chris or our other moderators to be fact checkers," Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr., co-chair, The Commission on Presidential Debates, told CNN's Chief Media Correspondent Brian Stelter on "Reliable Sources" Sunday. "The minute the TV is off there will be plenty of fact checkers."
The topics for Tuesday's debate, selected by Wallace himself, include: Trump and Biden's records, the Supreme Court, Covid-19, the economy, race and violence in our cities, and the integrity of the election.
If one of the candidates says something incorrect onstage Tuesday, it is the other candidate's job to raise concern and essentially fact check live, Fahrenkopf said.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/27/media/wallace-fact-check-reliable/index.html
Amazing things are so rough here that Climate Change doesn't even have a topic spot in the first presidential debate.
BTW Chris Wallace is a classic journo, old school, glad he was chosen as a moderator.
Should be interesting . .
Among the Fox crew, Chris Wallace is almost tolerable. He has some of his dad in him, but I doubt he'll mention climate change. If he does, Biden can't pull a Gore and talk about the science. Nobody understands the science. He has to make it about people who are losing homes and lives due to worsening wild fires and rising seas.
Wallace (and Biden) also have to hold Trump accountable for his lies. If his convention speech is any indication, he'll tell a verifiable untruth about every 56 seconds. That has to be called out. This has the potential to careen wildly out of control.
Biden is on his own for fact checking on stage. Depending on what outlet you watch it on they will be providing real-time. Opportunity to see if you can overcome your conformation bias. Who are you gonna watch or listen to it from? Sirius XM POTUS is what I will tune into.
Moderator Won’t Fact-Check Biden, Trump at Debate (9:40 a.m.)Fox
News anchor Chris Wallace won’t be fact-checking the candidates at
Tuesday’s debate, but that doesn’t mean they’re off the hook.
“We
don’t expect Chris or our other moderators to be fact checkers,” Frank
J. Fahrenkopf Jr., co-chair of the Commission on Presidential Debates,
said Sunday. “The minute the TV is off there will be plenty of fact
checkers.”
When he moderated a 2016 debate between Trump and
Hillary Clinton, Wallace did not fact-check the candidates per se, but
he often framed his questions around facts, statistics and past
statements that they had contradicted on the campaign trail.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/...r-BB19uUmb
Quote: @MaroonBells said:
@ Skodin said:
@ purplefaithful said:
The presidential debates for the 2020 election kick off Tuesday in Cleveland, and many Americans are uncertain about what to expect. One thing is for sure: Fox News Sunday anchor and moderator Chris Wallace will not be tasked with fact-checking the candidates in real-time.
"We don't expect Chris or our other moderators to be fact checkers," Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr., co-chair, The Commission on Presidential Debates, told CNN's Chief Media Correspondent Brian Stelter on "Reliable Sources" Sunday. "The minute the TV is off there will be plenty of fact checkers."
The topics for Tuesday's debate, selected by Wallace himself, include: Trump and Biden's records, the Supreme Court, Covid-19, the economy, race and violence in our cities, and the integrity of the election.
If one of the candidates says something incorrect onstage Tuesday, it is the other candidate's job to raise concern and essentially fact check live, Fahrenkopf said.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/27/media/wallace-fact-check-reliable/index.html
Amazing things are so rough here that Climate Change doesn't even have a topic spot in the first presidential debate.
BTW Chris Wallace is a classic journo, old school, glad he was chosen as a moderator.
Should be interesting . .
Among the Fox crew, Chris Wallace is almost tolerable. He has some of his dad in him, but I doubt he'll mention climate change. If he does, Biden can't pull a Gore and talk about the science. Nobody understands the science. He has to make it about people who are losing homes and lives due to worsening wild fires and rising seas.
Wallace (and Biden) also have to hold Trump accountable for his lies. If his convention speech is any indication, he'll tell a verifiable untruth about every 56 seconds. That has to be called out. This has the potential to careen wildly out of control.
Nobody understands the science. If that is true we fucked. Simply this:
Carbon in the ground, we pull out of ground unnecessarily now put into atmosphere.
Creates a gas ceiling that traps reflected sunlight from earth.
Cooks the planet, turns WHITE surfaces (like glaciers, ice caps) into water aka BLACK surfaces.
Black absorbs more sunlight, warmer water, warmer surface
Warmer temperatures globally fuck over agriculture, nature's cycle, raises sea levels, increase resource issues, which raises immigration and terrorism concerns
Not good for us
Quote: @Skodin said:
@ MaroonBells said:
@ Skodin said:
@ purplefaithful said:
The presidential debates for the 2020 election kick off Tuesday in Cleveland, and many Americans are uncertain about what to expect. One thing is for sure: Fox News Sunday anchor and moderator Chris Wallace will not be tasked with fact-checking the candidates in real-time.
"We don't expect Chris or our other moderators to be fact checkers," Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr., co-chair, The Commission on Presidential Debates, told CNN's Chief Media Correspondent Brian Stelter on "Reliable Sources" Sunday. "The minute the TV is off there will be plenty of fact checkers."
The topics for Tuesday's debate, selected by Wallace himself, include: Trump and Biden's records, the Supreme Court, Covid-19, the economy, race and violence in our cities, and the integrity of the election.
If one of the candidates says something incorrect onstage Tuesday, it is the other candidate's job to raise concern and essentially fact check live, Fahrenkopf said.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/27/media/wallace-fact-check-reliable/index.html
Amazing things are so rough here that Climate Change doesn't even have a topic spot in the first presidential debate.
BTW Chris Wallace is a classic journo, old school, glad he was chosen as a moderator.
Should be interesting . .
Among the Fox crew, Chris Wallace is almost tolerable. He has some of his dad in him, but I doubt he'll mention climate change. If he does, Biden can't pull a Gore and talk about the science. Nobody understands the science. He has to make it about people who are losing homes and lives due to worsening wild fires and rising seas.
Wallace (and Biden) also have to hold Trump accountable for his lies. If his convention speech is any indication, he'll tell a verifiable untruth about every 56 seconds. That has to be called out. This has the potential to careen wildly out of control.
Nobody understands the science. If that is true we fucked. Simply this:
Carbon in the ground, we pull out of ground unnecessarily now put into atmosphere.
Creates a gas ceiling that traps reflected sunlight from earth.
Cooks the planet, turns WHITE surfaces (like glaciers, ice caps) into water aka BLACK surfaces.
Black absorbs more sunlight, warmer water, warmer surface
Warmer temperatures globally fuck over agriculture, nature's cycle, raises sea levels, increase resource issues, which raises immigration and terrorism concerns
Not good for us
You don't need to convince me, but you say the same thing to all those undecided white guys with boats in the "alabama" between Pittsburgh and Philly and you're going to give Pennsylvania to the orange man.
We already have the folks who respect the science.
Quote: @BigAl99 said:
“The minute the TV is off there will be plenty of fact
checkers.”
Giving Trump time to call them all "fake news" and every Trumpist a chance to dismiss the factcheckers as "liberally biased."
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