The upcoming Presidential debate will be the second face-off between Joe Biden and Donald Trump after a chaotic debate in 2020. The debate comes less than five months before the November 5 election
In Thursday's 90-minute debate, candidates will appear at a uniform podium, be given a pen, paper and bottle of water and cannot use props or notes, CNN said
Joe Biden and Donald Trump won't be alone at Thursday's debate. Moderators Dana Bash and Jake Tapper of CNN will be on camera, too, and there's a lot on the line for their network as it fights for relevance in a changing media environment. CNN has hosted dozens of town halls and political forums through the years, but never a general election presidential debate, let alone one so early in a campaign. No network has. This is a huge moment for CNN, said former CNN Washington bureau chief Frank Sesno, now a media and public affairs professor at George Washington University. CNN has to reassert itself. It has to show that it led a revolution in news before and can do it again. As a television network, CNN is struggling at a time many consumers are cutting off cable and most news outlets wonder if the campaign will ignite consumer interest. Those that remain have expressed a clear preference for opinion programming. Fox News Channel has averaged 2.14 million viewers in prime time this .
Sandwiched between his appearances in court, Donald Trump headed on Saturday to the Jersey Shore, where he repeatedly blamed President Joe Biden for the criminal charges he's facing as the presumptive nominees prepare to face off in the November election and called his New York hush money case a Biden show trial. Blasting the Democratic president a total moron, Trump before a crowd of tens of thousands repeatedly characterized the cases against him as politically motivated and timed to harm his ability to campaign. He's a fool. He's not a smart man, Trump said of Biden. I talk about him differently now because now the gloves are off. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, drew what his team called a mega crowd to a Saturday evening rally in the southern New Jersey resort town of Wildwood, 150 miles (241 kilometers) south of the New York City courthouse where he has been forced to spend most weekdays sitting silently through his felony hush money trial. Lisa Fagan,
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In the second presidential debate, Trump and Biden were more restrained.
"I''ll participate, I just think it is very unfair," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Monday
There will only be one moderator per debate. Each debate will run uninterrupted for an hour and a half.
Trump also called for the first formal presidential debate, scheduled for Sept. 29, to be moved up on the calendar because early voting will have already begun in some states.
US President Donald Trump is facing his Democrat challenger and former Vice President Joe Biden in the November 3 election
The fault lines emerged immediately in the second debate of the 2020 Democratic primary race, with lesser-known candidates taking sharp digs
Clinton said she supports constitutional right to a woman to make the most intimate, most difficult decisions about her healthcare
Hillary Clinton said Trump's plan to build a wall and a strong deportation policy would rip the country apart
Contradicting daughter Ivanka's remarks, Donald Trump refused to commit that he would accept the election's results
However, nearly 6 in 10 viewers said Donald Trump did better than expected, whereas 44% said the same of Hillary Clinton
The candidates thrashed out issues from abortion rights to gun control to the battle against the Islamic State
Trump said he would wait to decide whether the outcome was legitimate
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The confrontation did not entirely live up to that billing, but Clinton and Trump vented their vast differences over a revealing hour and a half