JOE BIDEN and DONALD TRUMP

Facing the US presidential election on November 5s, the Democrat Joe Biden and the Republican Donald Trump They will face each other this Thursday in Atlanta, Georgia, in the first presidential debate in the country.

The meeting will be broadcast on the cnn starting at 10 p.m. (Argentina time). Minute by minute, I followed the coverage of The voice.

With the flip of a coin, it was decided that the podium of Biden will be located on the right side of the screen and the trump on the left. The Republican will give the closing statements, which means the Democrat will finish before his intervention.

To avoid interruptions, the candidates’ microphones they will be off when it is not your turn to speak and there will be no audience. Biden and Trump are prohibited from carrying prepared notesbut they will have a notebook and a pen during the face-to-face.

Never before has a presidential debate been held in June. Traditionally, they were held during the months of September and Octoberon dates closer to election day, which is the first Tuesday in November.

Biden and Trump will face each other without having yet been formally nominated as the candidates of the Democratic and Republican Parties, which will hold their national conventions in August in Chicago and in July in Milwaukee, respectively.

Biden and Trump will debate only since 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 CNN.

Among the network’s criteria was 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.”

The two debated twice during the 2020 campaign and have not met face-to-face since. Trump refused to participate in the Republican primary debates.

Biden He has been locked up in the Camp David presidential retreat for almost a week to prepare for the event, while the Republican has alternated between 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.

The CNN network is in charge of organizing and broadcasting the debate, which will be moderated by the same channel’s journalists Jake Tapper and Dana Bash.

It is the first time in nearly 40 years that the Commission on Presidential Debates, an independent body that had set dates for Sept. 16, Oct. 1 and Oct. 9, but was boycotted by both parties over disagreements about how it would work in the 2020 debates, has not been in charge.

The debate between President Biden and the former US president will be broadcast on the CNN.

The meeting will begin at 10 p.m. Argentine time and will last 90 minutes, with two commercial breaks during which the candidates will not be able to speak with their advisors.