Ahead of the US presidential election on November 5 next year, three debates between presidential candidates will be held in September and October of the same year.
The Committee on Presidential Debates (CPD), a non-profit private organization, announced the schedule for this debate on the 20th.
Next year’s presidential candidate debates will be held at
▲ Texas State University, Texas (September 16)
▲ Virginia State University, Virginia (October 1)
▲ University of Utah, Utah (October 9), and the vice-presidential candidate debate will also be held in September. It takes place once on the 25th.
All discussions will be ad-free for 90 minutes starting at 9 PM ET, with details to be announced at a later date. Since its establishment in 1987, CPD has hosted a debate every presidential election. However, the Republican National Committee (RNC) declared that it would not participate in the 2022 debate due to CPD’s bias.
Previously, former President Donald Trump did not participate in the 2020 presidential election when CPD held the second debate virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, former President Trump, who is expected to face a rematch with President Joe Biden in next year’s presidential election, said in a broadcast interview in June that he hopes to debate President Biden. In fact, the campaign of President Biden, the Democratic presidential candidate, has not yet announced whether President Biden will participate in the debate.
Accordingly, the American media stated that it remains to be seen whether the actual debate will proceed normally in this presidential election. Furthermore, there is a possibility that independent candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. may participate in this debate.
In order to participate in a debate hosted by CPD, you must secure an average of 15% or more support nationwide in pre-debate opinion polls, and currently, candidate Kennedy is recording an average of 14.7% support. If candidate Kennedy participates, the debate will be held in a three-party manner, with independents as well as Democrats and Republicans.