How to watch Thursday’s CNN Presidential Debate

CNN staff

(CNN) — A historical showdown betwixt President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump is group for Thursday connected CNN erstwhile nan presumptive awesome statement nominees meet for their first debate this predetermination cycle.

The statement will beryllium nan earliest specified arena successful US history. Televised statesmanlike debates betwixt wide predetermination candidates person ever started successful September aliases early October, going backmost to nan first 1 betwixt John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon successful 1960.

Here’s really to watch nan debate:

When and wherever will nan statement return place?

The 90-minute statement will return spot connected Thursday, June 27, astatine 7 p.m. MDT astatine nan network’s Atlanta studios.

Who is moderating?

CNN’s Jake Tapper and Dana Bash will mean nan event.

Where and really tin I watch it?

The CNN Presidential Debate will air live connected CNN, CNN International and CNN en Español, and via streaming connected Max for subscribers and without a cablegram login on CNN.com. CNN will make nan statement disposable to simulcast connected further broadcast and cablegram news networks.

You tin besides follow CNN’s unrecorded statement sum on CNN.com, which will see study and truth checking.

What were nan qualifications?

Biden and Trump will beryllium nan only statesmanlike candidates participating successful nan debate.

In bid to qualify, candidates had to fulfill nan requirements outlined successful Article II, Section 1 of nan US Constitution to service arsenic president, arsenic good arsenic record a general connection of candidacy pinch nan Federal Election Commission.

According to parameters group by CNN successful May, each participating debaters had to look connected a capable number of authorities ballots to scope nan 270 electoral ballot period to triumph nan presidency and person astatine slightest 15% successful 4 abstracted nationalist polls of registered aliases apt voters that meet CNN’s standards for reporting.

Polls that meet those standards are those sponsored by CNN, ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, Marquette University Law School, Monmouth University, NBC News, The New York Times/Siena College, NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist College, Quinnipiac University, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.

Biden and Trump were nan only candidates to meet those requirements.

The brace has besides agreed to participate successful different statement hosted by ABC connected September 10.

What are nan rules of nan debate?

The statement will see 2 commercialized breaks, according to nan network, and run unit whitethorn not interact pinch their campaigner during that time. The candidates agreed to look astatine a azygous podium. Microphones will beryllium muted passim nan statement isolated from for nan campaigner whose move it is to speak. While nary props aliases pre-written notes will beryllium allowed connected nan stage, candidates will beryllium fixed a pen, a pad of insubstantial and a vessel of water. The arena will not characteristic a workplace audience.

Catch up connected CNN’s caller run coverage

What to watch: Abortion, nan system and nan Israel-Hamas warfare are judge to beryllium among nan astir important issues discussed astatine Thursday night’s debate. CNN’s squad outlines 8 things to watch.

Campaign promises. Ahead of nan debate, Trump has made a number of ambitious promises connected nan run trail, including rolling backmost car contamination rules and building 10 caller cities. Biden, meanwhile, has vowed to protect American populist and walk a national rule to codify nan correct to an abortion into law.

Read our database of Trump’s run promises here, and a database of Biden’s here.

A return to nan roots of statesmanlike debates. The format of CNN’s statement has a beardown humanities precedent making love backmost to nan first televised debates successful 1960, Zachary B. Wolf writes.

Behind nan scenes. Listen arsenic CNN goes wrong nan workplace wherever nan statement will return spot and talks to Atlanta voters astir what they want to perceive connected nan “CNN One Thing” podcast.

Quick quiz. Test your knowledge connected wherever nan candidates stand, what they’re promising and whether you’ve heard it each before.

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