Organizers announced that the debate will take place virtually due to the president's COVID-19 diagnosis.

The debate was moderated by NBC News' Kristen Welker and focused on six main topics: COVID-19, race, climate change, national security, leadership, and American families.

Most voters have made up their minds by now, and past research suggests debates have only a negligible ability to sway. As Donald Trump and Joe Biden prepare to face off for their first of three presidential debates , perhaps you are asking yourself: What’s the point? Do televised debates actually manage to change people’s minds in an election when the two major candidates are so starkly different? Are that many voters still undecided? Do debates even matter? Read Full Story

A good insult can turn the tables. Before the first presidential debate, President Donald Trump demanded that his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, submit to a drug test . Read Full Story

It was a whole different ballgame than last week in the vice presidential debate, but one side still seemed to keep running more afoul of the ref. Even a mild improvement over last week’s punishing-to-watch presidential debate counts as a political vacation. Tonight’s vice-presidential scrimmage, however, still carried the residual discomfort of watching one side repeatedly breaking the rules and refusing to be reined in. Read Full Story

The first debate was a hot mess. The planning committee is making one big change for the next one, but that could end up making things even worse. As far as mainstream media outlets are concerned, the appearance of objectivity is a hell of a drug. Read Full Story

The latest Democratic debate will take place in Charleston, South Carolina, and is cohosted by CBS News. No, you’re not having déjà vu. The 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are indeed having another debate, which comes less than a week after the last one. This time around, the candidates will face off in Charleston, South Carolina, for a debate cohosted by CBS News and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute. Twitter is also a partner and is accepting live questions at the #DemDebate hashtag. Read Full Story

The first of three presidential debates between Donald Trump and Joe Biden is scheduled to take place in Cleveland tonight. Believe it or not, three presidential debates between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are scheduled to take place between now and the November election. Read Full Story

COVID-19 is certain to be main topic of discussion between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders tonight. Here’s how to stream the debate for free. With the coronavirus pandemic threatening to overburden the healthcare system and plunge the United States into economic chaos, the two remaining viable Democratic candidates will face off in the nation’s capital tonight for the first one-on-one debate of the 2020 presidential primaries. Read Full Story

A unifying theme emerged over the course of the first presidential debate: Donald Trump had to be told to stop talking. Anyone who ever wanted to watch Statler interrupt Waldorf continuously for 90 minutes would be ecstatic with the way the first presidential debate of the 2020 election turned out. Read Full Story