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The 2024 United States presidential debates are a series of scheduled debates between major candidates of the 2024 United States presidential election. Two general election debates sponsored by CNN and ABC are scheduled to be held on June 27 and September 10, 2024, respectively. Both major parties' presumptive nominees, Donald Trump and Joe Biden, have confirmed their attendance.
Four general election debates sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) were originally scheduled to be held between September 16 and October 9, 2024. Both Biden and Trump criticized the CPD's debate format and schedule. [1] [2] In May 2024, both campaigns agreed to a deal to bypass the CPD and hold the aforementioned alternative debates, effectively cancelling the CPD debates. [3]
In April 2022, the Republican National Committee voted unanimously to withdraw from the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD); committee chair Ronna McDaniel called the organization "biased" and stated that they would find "newer, better debate platforms" for future Republican nominees. [4] This announcement came after years of tension between the organizations, including a threat made earlier in the year by the RNC to change its rules to prohibit nominees from participating in CPD debates. In response, the commission stated that "[its] plans for 2024 will be based on fairness, neutrality and a firm commitment to help the American public learn about the candidates and the issues." [5]
Former president Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination, did not attend any primary debates, deeming them unnecessary and detrimental to his campaign. [6] He has previously accused the CPD of unfair treatment in the 2016 and 2020 debates, and the likelihood of Trump attending the debates has been brought into question. Despite this, Trump told Fox News host Bret Baier in a June 2023 interview that he is interested in debating incumbent president Joe Biden should he become the Democratic nominee. At that time, Biden had not committed to attending the debate either, as his campaign was also in conflict with the commission for failing to enforce its rules against Trump, [7] though in April 2024 he confirmed he plans to debate Trump. [8]
Biden and Trump became the presumptive nominees of their respective parties in March 2024, [9] [10] setting up the first presidential rematch since 1956. [11] On April 14, 2024, a number of major news organizations signed an open letter to the nominees urging them to attend the debates, arguing for its "rich tradition in our American democracy" and that the "exceptionally high" stakes require debates to be held. Signatories include ABC News, CBS News, CNN, NBC News, and Fox News, among others. [12]
If either major party nominee chooses not to attend a general election debate, it would be the first since 2020, when president Trump refused to attend the second debate with Biden because it would have been virtual rather than in person following Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis. [13] It previously occurred in 1980, when president Jimmy Carter refused to attend the first debate with Ronald Reagan due to the presence of independent candidate John B. Anderson. Should both refuse it would be the first presidential election since 1972 without any general election debate. [14] Additionally, if independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. improved his current polling results, he would have been the first third party candidate since Ross Perot in 1992 to qualify for the debates. [15]
Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles, campaign managers for Trump, had pushed for more debates to be held by the CPD, in addition to holding them earlier than the planned September date, though the commission refused to accede. [16] Throughout his 2024 campaign, Trump confirmed his intention to cooperate with the CPD repeatedly and challenged Biden to debate "Anywhere, anytime, anyplace." [17]
The CPD announced the schedule for its four debates on November 20, 2023. All debates would have started at 9 p.m. ET and would have run for 90 minutes uninterrupted. [18] In order to qualify for the CPD-sponsored debates, presidential candidates would have needed to meet the following criteria: (vice presidential candidates would have qualified by being the running mate of a qualifying presidential candidate) [18]
On May 15, 2024, the Biden campaign announced that it would not participate in the CPD-hosted debates and instead invited Trump to participate in two alternative debates to take place in June and September, each hosted in a TV news studio without an audience. [19] [20] Jen O'Malley Dillon, the Biden campaign manager, laid out three reasons for sidelining the CPD, indicating that the debates weren't completed until early voting started, that the debates had become "a spectacle" and that the CPD could not "enforce its own rules". [21] Frank Fahrenkopf, the head of the CPD, pushed back against the claims in an interview with Politico, indicating that the September 16 debate date was optimal, in addition to noting that the general election debates are "not like the primary debates" and that Trump himself had not followed the debate rules during the 2020 general election debate moderated by Chris Wallace. [22] Biden and Trump accepted an offer from CNN to hold the first of these debates on June 27 and from ABC to hold the second on September 10. [3]
Trump indicated the same day that he had accepted a Fox News debate to be hosted on October 2, 2024, though the Biden campaign dismissed the prospect of a third debate. [23] Kennedy accused the two candidates of "colluding" to exclude him from televised debates "because they are afraid I would win"; both CNN and ABC had decided on eligibility criteria that were similar to those that had been used by the CPD, with Kennedy not appearing on a sufficient number of state ballots at that time. [24] The Biden campaign had unsuccessfully proposed that third party candidates be excluded from the debates. [3] A May poll taken by the Harvard Center for American Political Studies/Harris indicated that 71% of the people surveyed were in favor of allowing a third party candidate to debate. [25]
Trump announced on May 17 that he would be willing to hold another debate with Biden that would be hosted by NBC News and Telemundo. [26]
On May 7, 2024, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. issued an open letter challenging former President Trump to debate him at the Libertarian National Convention, where both were already scheduled to speak from May 24–25, citing Trump's frequent and vocal claims that he would be willing to debate anywhere and Kennedy's own competitive polling with both major candidates. Trump did not respond to this challenge. [27]
A vice presidential debate in July was initially proposed, which would take place after the selection of a vice presidential candidate at the 2024 Republican National Convention. [28] The Biden campaign agreed to a vice presidential debate hosted by CBS News to take place on either July 23 or August 13. [29] The Trump campaign confirmed with Politico that it is aware of the offer, but had not yet made a decision. [30] Trump stated on May 17 he agreed to a future vice presidential debate on behalf of his future vice presidential pick. Bret Baier of Fox News stated in an interview with Martha MacCallum held on May 17 that Fox would be willing to host a vice presidential debate on July 23, August 13, or "following both party conventions". [26]
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Key: P Participant. I Invitee. A Absent. | Democratic | Republican | |||||||||||||
President Joe Biden of Delaware | Former President Donald Trump of Florida | ||||||||||||||
1 | June 27, 2024 9:00 p.m. EDT [28] | CNN | Atlanta, Georgia | Jake Tapper Dana Bash [31] | I | I | |||||||||
2 | September 10, 2024 [3] | ABC News | TBD | David Muir Linsey Davis [32] | I | I | |||||||||
9:00 p.m.–10:30 p.m. EDT [18] | NA | Cancelled | Cancelled | ||||||||||||
9:00 p.m.–10:30 p.m. EDT [18] | NA | Cancelled | Cancelled | ||||||||||||
9:00 p.m.–10:30 p.m. EDT [18] | NA | Cancelled | Cancelled | ||||||||||||
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Vice President Kamala Harris of California | TBD | ||||||||||||||
9:00 p.m.–10:30 p.m. EDT [18] | NA | Cancelled | Cancelled |
Presidential debate | |
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Date(s) | June 27, 2024 |
Location | Atlanta, Georgia |
Participants | Donald Trump Joe Biden |
Moderator(s) | Jake Tapper and Dana Bash of CNN |
The first debate will be held on Thursday, June 27, 2024, starting at 9:00 p.m. EDT in Atlanta, Georgia.
It will be available on multiple platforms, including CNN, as well as "CNN International, CNN en Español, CNN Max and CNN.com." [33]
In order to qualify for the June 27 CNN debate, presidential candidates have to meet the following criteria: [34]
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Candidate | Met polling criterion [35] | Met EV criteria | Met both criteria/ invited | Refs |
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Biden | Yes 13 qualifying polls | Yes 538 EVs certified [lower-alpha 1] | Yes | [36] |
Trump | Yes 13 qualifying polls | Yes 538 EVs certified [lower-alpha 2] | Yes | [36] |
Oliver | Pending 0 qualifying polls | Yes 351 EVs certified 17 awaiting certification [lower-alpha 3] | Pending | [36] |
Kennedy Jr. | Pending 3 qualifying polls | Pending 89 EVs certified [lower-alpha 4] 134 awaiting certification [lower-alpha 5] [lower-alpha 6] | Pending | [56] [57] [58] |
Stein | Pending 0 qualifying polls | Pending 253 EVs certified [lower-alpha 7] 7 awaiting certification [lower-alpha 8] | Pending | [58] |
West | Pending 0 qualifying polls | Pending | Pending | [58] |
Presidential debate | |
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Date(s) | September 10, 2024 |
Participants | Donald Trump Joe Biden |
Moderator(s) | David Muir and Linsey Davis of ABC News |
The second debate will be held on Tuesday, September 10, 2024.
ABC announced that the debate would be simulcast for airing on other networks. [33]
The Libertarian Party of California hosted two multiparty debates at their state convention in Costa Mesa, California.
The first night featured Libertarian candidates Michael Rectenwald and Mike ter Maat and independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Green candidate Jill Stein was advertised as attending but ultimately did not. [68]
The second night featured Libertarian candidates Charles Ballay, Lars Mapstead, and Jacob Hornberger alongside independent candidate Cornel West. [69]
Free and Equal hosted a multiparty debate on February 29, 2024, in New York City, New York moderated by the foundation's chair, Christina Tobin.
Candidates were invited based on public votes via a point system style voting through the organization's "block-chain voting app" with an audit process after the fact. Socialism and Liberation nominee Claudia De la Cruz, independent candidates West and Kennedy, Libertarian candidates Chase Oliver and Mapstead, and Green candidates Stein and Jasmine Sherman were invited, although Kennedy and West declined to attend. [70] [71]
The two hour debate was broadcast on YouTube, Rumble, and CSPAN among various other platforms. At one point, co-moderator Jason Palmer remarked on the five candidates’ relative agreement on social issues, although the debate became more combative towards the end. [72] Sherman won the organization’s post-debate ranked choice voting poll. [73]
Free and Equal will host a second debate on July 11, 2024, at FreedomFest in Las Vegas, Nevada moderated by the foundation's chair, Christina Tobin. [74]
Unlike the first debate, this debate will be invite only. The organization confirmed on X that Trump, Biden, and Kennedy Jr. will be invited, along with other yet to be determined candidates.[ citation needed ] As of May 20, no candidate has confirmed their participation.
The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) is a nonprofit corporation established in 1987 under the joint sponsorship of the Democratic and Republican political parties in the United States. The CPD sponsors and produces debates for U.S. presidential and vice-presidential candidates and undertakes research and educational activities relating to the debates. Between 1988 and 2020, the CPD organized all general election presidential debates.
The 2024 United States presidential election will be the 60th quadrennial presidential election, set to be held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Voters will elect a president and vice president for a term of four years. Incumbent President Joe Biden, a member of the Democratic Party, is running for re-election. His predecessor Donald Trump, a member of the Republican Party, is running for re-election for a second, non-consecutive term, after losing to him in 2020. If both are nominated, this will mark the first presidential election rematch since 1956.
This is a timeline of major events leading up to, during, and after the 2024 United States presidential election. This will be the first presidential election to be run with population data from the 2020 census. In addition to the dates mandated by the relevant federal laws such as those in the U.S. Constitution and the Electoral Count Act, several milestones have consistently been observed since the adoption of the conclusions of the 1971 McGovern–Fraser Commission.
The People's Party is a syncretic political organization in the United States aimed at "forming a major new political party free of corporate money and influence."
This article lists third party and independent candidates, also jointly known as minor candidates, associated with the 2024 United States presidential election.
The 2024 United States presidential election in Arizona is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate. Arizona voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Arizona has 11 electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state neither gained nor lost a seat. Arizona is considered to be a crucial swing state in 2024.
The 2024 United States presidential election in California is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate. California voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. California has 54 electoral votes in the Electoral College, the most in the country.
The 2024 United States presidential election in Florida is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate. Florida voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Florida has 30 electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state gained a seat.
The 2024 United States presidential election in Georgia is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate. Georgia voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Georgia has 16 electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which it neither gained nor lost a seat. Georgia is considered to be a crucial swing state in 2024.
The 2024 United States presidential election in Michigan is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate. Michigan voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Michigan has 15 electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state lost a seat. Michigan is considered to be a crucial swing state in 2024.
The 2024 United States presidential election in Nebraska is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate. Nebraska voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Nebraska has 5 electoral votes.
The 2024 United States presidential election in Nevada is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate. Nevada voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Nevada has six electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state neither gained nor lost a seat.
The 2024 United States presidential election in North Carolina is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate. North Carolina voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of North Carolina has 16 electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state gained a seat.
The 2024 United States presidential election in Ohio is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate. Ohio voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Ohio has 17 electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state lost a seat.
The 2024 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate. Pennsylvania voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Pennsylvania has 19 electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state lost a seat.
The 2024 United States presidential election in Texas is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate. Texas voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Texas has 40 electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state gained two seats.
The 2024 United States presidential election in Utah is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate. Utah voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Utah has six electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state neither gained nor lost a seat.
The 2024 Libertarian National Convention was a political event to select the Libertarian Party nominees for president and vice president in the 2024 election. It was held from May 24 to the early morning of May 27, 2024, at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced his campaign for the 2024 United States presidential election on April 19, 2023. An environmental lawyer, writer, and member of the Kennedy family, he is known for advocating anti-vaccine misinformation and public health conspiracy theories. He initially ran for the Democratic Party nomination, but announced on October 9, 2023, that he would run as an independent candidate.
Several debates and forums have taken place among candidates in the campaign for the Democratic Party's nomination for president in the 2024 United States presidential election. The Democratic National Committee has expressed full support for incumbent president Joe Biden and has no plans to host any official primary debates. As such, the debates held are instead sponsored by private organizations, and are only being held among Biden's primary challengers.
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