The Democratic President Joe Biden and the republican donald trump faces will be seen this Thursday in atlanta (Georgia) in the first presidential debate before the November 5 elections.
This is all there is to know about this face to face, the first in history between a sitting president of the United States and a former president of the country.
The debate will begin this Thursday at 9:00 p.m., US East Coast time. (01:00 GMT on Friday).
10 pm in Argentina.
9 p.m. in Chili.
The 20 hours in Colombia and Peru.
7 p.m. in Mexico.
3 AM in Spain.
Infobae will broadcast the event live on your Youtube channel and in his Web page.
Besides, cnn will broadcast the debate live on its channels. Viewers will also be able to follow it on several networks that have also agreed to broadcast the event.
The first debate of the presidential elections will be held in the studios of the cnn in Atlanta Georgia. Unlike the Republican primary debates, there will be no public.
It is the first time in almost 40 years that The Commission on Presidential Debates is not in chargean independent body that had set dates for September 16, October 1 and October 9, but was boycotted by both parties due to disagreements over its operation in the 2020 debates.
The debate will be moderated by Jake Tapper and Dana Bash of cnn.
The debate will 90 minutes long with two commercial breaks in which candidates will be able to go to the bathroom but Don’t talk to your advisors.
With the toss of a coin, it was decided that the podium of Biden is on the right side of the screen and Trump is on the left. The Republican will give the final statements, which means that the Democrat will finish his intervention first.
To avoid interruptions, candidates’ microphones will be turned off when it is not your turn to speak and there will be no audience. Biden and Trump have It is prohibited to carry prepared notesbut they will have a notebook and a pen during the face-to-face.
The presidential elections in the USA are the Tuesday, November 5, 2024.
Never before has a presidential debate been held in June. Traditionally, they were carried out during the months of September and October, closer to election day.
Biden and Trump will face each other without having yet been formally nominated such as the Democratic and Republican Party candidates, who will hold their national conventions in August in Chicago and in July in Milwaukee, respectively.
The truth is both won the primaries unusually early and their campaigns argue that the debate should begin as soon as possible because there are states where early voting starts in September.
The president and the former president They debated twice during the 2020 campaign and since then they have not been in any face to face. Trump refused to participate in the Republican primary debates.
Biden has been locked up at the Camp David presidential retreat for almost a week to prepare for the appointment, while the Republican has alternated meetings with his team and rallies in which he has attacked his rival.
All eyes will be on the lucidity of Biden, increasingly questioned due to his age, 81, and on the explosive character of Trump, 78, known for his insults and witticisms.
Biden and Trump will debate alone given that the independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.., nephew of former President John F. Kennedy and who is running as a third way in the next elections, failed to meet the requirements demanded by the cnn.
Among the network’s criteria were appearing on a sufficient number of state ballots and receiving at least 15% support in four national polls. Kennedy Jr. denounced his exclusion as “undemocratic and cowardly.”
Biden and Trump have agreed to hold at least one more debatehe September, 10th In the chain ABC Newsof which there are not many details yet, but it is known that it will be moderated by David Muir and Linsey Davis.
And let’s not forget the running mates. Trump has not yet named his own, but the vice president Kamala Harris has accepted an invitation from CBS News to debate with his eventual rival in studio on July 23 or August 13.
