2020 United States presidential debates
The 2020 United States presidential debates were sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates. The first debate took place on September 29, 2020. The next debate was scheduled to take place on October 15 but was later canceled due to Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis. The final debate was held on October 22. A debate between the vice presidential candidates Mike Pence and Kamala Harris took place in October 7. The debates were originally scheduled for July 27, 2020, but Notre Dame withdrew as a host site due to concerns about the pandemic.
About 2020 United States presidential debates in brief
The 2020 United States presidential debates were sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates. The first debate took place on September 29, 2020. The next debate was scheduled to take place on October 15 but was later canceled due to Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis and refusal to appear remotely rather than in person. As a result, 2020 had the fewest debates since 1996. The final debate was held on October 22. A debate between the vice presidential candidates Mike Pence and Kamala Harris took place in October 7. The debates were originally scheduled for July 27, 2020, but Notre Dame withdrew as a host site due to concerns about the pandemic. In the weeks leading up to the debate, Trump became part of a series of controversies, including claims that Biden was suffering from dementia and that he was taking performance-enhancing drugs in the primaries. Trump also made repeated claims that the election would be rigged by means of voter fraud, especially with regards to mail-in ballots. In order to qualify for the debates, presidential candidates had to meet the following criteria; vice-presidential candidates qualify by being the running mate of a qualifying presidential candidate. The debate was originally scheduled to. take place in the Phillip J. Purcell Pavilion located within the Edmund P. Joyce Center at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, but. Notre Dame. withdrew as the host site on July 27,. 2020, due to fears about the CO VID-19 pandemic, which reached the milestone of 200,000 deaths from US-19 in just a few days before the debate.
The CPD rejected a request by the Trump campaign to shift the debates to an earlier date, or to add a fourth debate in relation to mail in voting. In October 11, 2019, the CPD announced that it would host four debates; three of which would be between incumbent president Donald Trump, Democratic nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden, and any other participants that qualify, while one debate would be a vice presidential debate between incumbent vice president Mike Pence, Democratic vice presidential nominee. and any third party candidates that met the criteria. In late 2019, Trump claimed that the 2016 debates were biased. The New York Times published an investigation into Trump’s tax returns, which found that Trump had paid no tax at all in 10 out of 15 years and only in 2016 and 2017. In one recording made in February, Trump indicated that he understood the severity of the CoVid pandemic early on, which contrasted with Trump’s attempts to publicly play down the virus’s severity on several occasions. On August 27, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi suggested that Biden should skip the debates. Biden responded by stating that he would go ahead and participate to ‘be a fact-checker on the floor while debating’. On October 7, Biden declined to participate, saying that he did not believe in a peaceful transition of power. Biden’s lead was compounded by a funding shortage in Trump’s campaign, with Biden’s campaign donations improving significantly.
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