Former President Donald J. Trump and incumbent Vice President (and 2024 presidential candidate) Kamala Harris have agreed to a Presidential Debate. ABC News will host it on September 10 and air it next month.
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump will appear for the first time in a televised Presidential Debate on ABC in September, a critical test of a fluid campaign that will draw millions of viewers and that was already once in doubt.
Because Donald J. Trump had once committed to the Debate in May; however, in the meantime, President Joe Biden withdrew himself from the race for the upcoming election in July after a disastrous debate performance in late June. Then, former President Donald J. Trump changed his mind and briefly backed down.
Trump-Harris debate time and place:
The Presidential Debate will last 90 minutes and take place on September 10 at 9 p.m. Eastern Time at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. It is less than a week before primary voting begins in Pennsylvania, a critical battleground state in US elections.
Ways to watch the Trump-Harris debate:
American commercial broadcast television ABC (American Broadcasting Company) and its Philadelphia affiliate, WPVI-TV, will broadcast the Trump-Harris presidential debate. In addition, ABC News Live, Disney+, and Hulu will stream to reach the American public at all levels.
Who are the moderators of the Trump-Harris debate, and what are the rules?
David Muir (anchor of ‘World News Tonight’) and Linsey Davis (anchor of ‘ABC News Live Prime’) have been named moderators for the Trump-Harris Presidential Debate. However, nothing has been finalized yet about the rules of the ‘debate’ or whether there will be an in-person audience. We saw no audience during the Debate held on CNN in June. Here, too, authorities are considering preventing candidates from interrupting each other or muting microphones by other audiences to protect them from disrupting the flow of speech.
Is there a possibility of more debates between Donald J. Trump and Kamala Harris?
It is not yet clear if there will be more debates between Donald J. Trump and Kamala Harris after the ABC News debate. According to a statement, Donald Trump has agreed to two more debates with NBC News and Fox News. On the other hand, a spokesperson for the Harris-Walz campaign speculates that Kamala Harris will debate Donald Trump again in October, based on the fact that Kamala Harris will appear for this ABC News debate in September.