Thursday June 27th There is an important political event for the United States: the debate betweenJoe Biden and Donald Trump. The current US president and the former president have accepted the rules of the electoral debate that will be televised on the ‘CNN’ network.
It will be the first face-to-face debate before the presidential elections scheduled for next November 2024. The second debate is organized by ‘ABC’ and will also be the last one that the two candidates for the presidency will star in. White House. Televised presidential debates have been a tradition in the United States leading up to elections since 1976.
The debate will take place before the Democratic Party or the Republican Party hold their national conventions to make the election of their nominees official.
This will be the debate between Biden and Trump
Joe Biden and Donald Trump have accepted CNN’s debate rules ahead of the November 5 elections. What will the debate be like? Here are some details of the next ‘face to face’:
To begin with, the electoral debate will take place on June 27 in Atlanta (Georgia) and will be presented by journalists Jake Tapper and Dana Bash. It will last 90 minutes -with two commercial breaks-. Moderators “will use all tools at their disposal to enforce time and ensure a civil discussion”
The candidates’ microphones will be muted as long as they do not intervene and the campaign staff will not be able to interact with the representatives. They will also not be able to access with previously written notes. Although once there, placed in front of the cameras, they will receive a pen, a notebook and a bottle of water.
They will appear on identical podiums, and their positions have been chosen by lottery (by flipping a coin).
In order to participate in the debate hosted by CNN, candidates must be eligible and have submitted a formal declaration of candidacy to the Federal Election Commission. In addition to appearing on enough state ballots to reach the 270 electoral vote threshold to win the presidency and receiving at least 15% support in four national polls, something only Biden and Trump do.
The former Republican president Donald Trump will be the one who has the last word in the debate electoral. Biden was able to choose between the position he would occupy in the debate or the order of his final statements. The president chose to debate from the right side of the television screen. In this way, his Republican rival will be on the left side.
Following a coin toss, the Biden campaign won the right to choose the podium position in the debate or the order of closing statements, opting for the first option.
Kennedy Jr. will not participate in the debate
The televised electoral debate next Thursday will be like a ‘face to face‘ between the current president of the country and former President Trump. They will be the only ones who come.
The independent candidate for the US Presidency, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.you will not be able to participate in the presidential debate on CNN because it does not meet the requirements demanded by the network.
Kennedy Jr., nephew of former president John F. Kennedydoes not have a sufficient number of state ballots to reach the threshold of 270 electoral votes to win the Presidency and receive at least 15% support in four national surveys, national media reported.
“Biden and Trump do not want me on the debate stage and CNN illegally agreed to their demand. My exclusion from the debate by Presidents Biden and Trump is undemocratic, un-American and cowardly,” he said in a statement, according to CBS News.
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