The Commission on Presidential Debates will hold the final presidential debate on October 22, 2020, between President Donald Trump (R) and former Vice President Joe Biden (D) at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee
The debate will be 90 minutes without commercial breaks. It will be divided into six, 15-minute segments on the following topics selected by moderator, NBC News' Kristen Welker.
The commission announced on October 19 that each candidate's microphone would be muted during the other candidate's two-minute opening remarks for each of the six segments. During the rest of the debate, the microphones would be on for open discussion. Both campaigns agreed to the rule.
In lieu of the 2nd presidential debate, the two candidates will each host their own town hall.
President Donald J. Trump and Democratic Party candidate Joseph R. Biden Jr. will appear on television at 7 p.m. Central Time — on different channels. Trump will appear on NBC. Biden, meanwhile, will appear on ABC
The 2nd Presidential Debate has been canceled.
The debate will be at Kingsbury Hall on President's Circle at the university Wednesday, October 7, 2020.
The moderator: The vice-presidential debate will be moderated by Susan Page, USA Today’s Washington bureau chief.
Topics announced: Topics are announced by the moderator and the Commission on Presidential Debates a week before the debate. We know that there will be nine topics, and each will get about 10 minutes.
The debate will be 90 minutes, and it will be divided into 15-minute segments on the following six topics:
Fox News' Chris Wallace, the debate's moderator, selected the topics.
Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, will co-host the debate. The University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, was originally scheduled to host the event but withdrew on July 27, 2020, in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The debate will take place in person at the Sheila and Eric Samson Pavilion.