He said Democrats had spent the past three years trying to overturn the results of the election. Pence said universal mail-in voting created the opportunity for fraud.
The Commission on Presidential Debates said, "The debate will be divided into nine segments of approximately 10 minutes each. The moderator will ask an opening question, after which each candidate will have two minutes to respond.
The moderator will use the balance of the time in the segment for a deeper discussion of the topic. Following President Donald Trump 's COVID diagnosis, the commission announced the candidates would be seated 13 feet apart rather than the originally planned seven feet. The candidates were also separated by plexiglass.
The Commission on Presidential Debates CPD used the following criteria to select candidates to participate in the general election presidential debates: [4]. The following table provides an overview of the date, location, and host in each scheduled general election debate.
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 Ballotpedia features , encyclopedic articles written and curated by our professional staff of editors, writers, and researchers.
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What's on your ballot? Jump to: navigation , search. Presidential candidates. Election overview Battleground states Presidential debates Candidates on the issues. Electoral College Campaign finance Democratic primary overview Republican primary overview. Date: October 7, , at p.
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah. Categories : United States presidential debates, Marquee, event, Voter information What's on my ballot? Where do I vote? How do I register to vote? How do I request a ballot? That said, there was a disagreement between the Biden and Trump campaign teams regarding putting a plexiglass barrier between the candidates. On Monday, the Commission on Presidential Debates confirmed that a plexiglass shield would be placed between Biden and Harris and also between the candidates and the moderator, but on Tuesday, according to the Washington Post , Vice President Pence's team is saying that they "[do] not view plexiglass dividers as medically necessary, given other safety measures at the debate.
Per the Post , "The commission and the Biden campaign both said Tuesday they understood that the Pence team was in agreement with the notion of plexiglass barriers. But the Pence team suggested they did not want any such dividers around the vice president, regardless of what Harris does. Later in the day on Tuesday, CNN confirmed that the debate commission "will allow Mike Pence to participate without plexiglass barriers around him at Wednesday's contest But Kamala Harris and the debate moderator will be allowed to erect barriers separating them from the vice president.
We'll continue to update this post as new information is shared publicly, but in the meantime, here's what we do know about the debate. More specifically, the conversation will be held in Kingsbury Hall on President's Circle. Given that the pandemic continues to be a public health concern in the United States, specific social distancing requirements and other measures will be put in place to execute the event safely.
Harris did improve her favorability rating among those who watched, according to the poll, while for Pence, the debate was a wash. Results among debate-watchers have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 5. Respondents were originally interviewed Sept. Respondents initially reached online are members of the SSRS Opinion Panel, a nationally representative probability-based panel.
CNN's David Chalian breaks down the numbers:. President Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden reacted on Twitter to their running mates' vice presidential debate. Trump and Biden are set to debate again next week in the second presidential debate. See their tweets:. Following tonight's vice presidential debate, a panel of undecided voters spoke with CNN's Sara Sidner about what they thought of each candidate's performance.
When the group was asked specifically to choose a winner between California Sen. Kamala Harris or Vice President Mike Pence, it was a tie; four thought Harris won, four thought Pence won and the rest thought the debate was a wash. Watch their full reaction:. Vice President Mike Pence claimed that universal mail-in voting leads to widespread fraud.
Facts first: This claim about voter fraud, which Trump has also made repeatedly, is false. Numerous studies have found that mail-in voting does not lead to "massive" fraud. Furthermore, only nine states and Washington, DC, are using "universal mail-in voting" this year. Experts acknowledge there might be some logistical issues in terms of people being able to receive and mail in their ballots.
Isolated incidents of missing ballots or discarded envelopes have cropped up in recent weeks. But there's no evidence that mail-in voting leads to fraudulent and rigged elections, which the Trump White House has repeatedly claimed. Voting by mail rarely results in fraud. States have put in place multiple policies and safeguards like bar codes and signature verification to combat risks and deter attempts to commit fraud.
Comprehensive studies of billions of ballots cast over many years indicate that the rate of voter fraud is less than 0. For more CNN fact checks, visit our fact check database here and learn more about mail-in voting here. Vice President Mike Pence and Kamala Harris briefly rehashed a dispute that has been a part of the political wrangling over Covid — whether or not the Trump White House disbanded an Obama-era pandemic team.
The White House pandemic team was disbanded under Trump, but some of the public health officials on the team were kept onboard and reassigned to related roles.
Two things are clear: Number one, the Obama administration created a specific team on the National Security Council to handle pandemic preparation and global health. Number two, that team no longer exists.
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