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  Presidential Debates Don’t Get No Respect. They Should

  September 23, 2016 06:13 p.m.

  Following the U.S. example, 78 countries or regions now have leader debates.

• Commission Names Moderators of 2016 Presidential Debates

  September 2, 2016 10:10 a.m.

  The Commission on Presidential Debates on Friday morning announced the moderators of the three upcoming presidential debates, as well as the vice presidential debate.

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  Gwen Ifill, Co-Anchor of PBS ‘NewsHour,’ Dies at 61

  November 15, 2016 12:33 a.m.

  Gwen Ifill, co-anchor of PBS’s “NewsHour” and a veteran journalist who moderated two vice presidential debates, died Monday of cancer, the network said. She was 61.

• ABC and Facebook to Stream Presidential Debates Live

  September 20, 2016 02:53 p.m.

  ABC News and Facebook will stream the three presidential debates and the vice presidential debate on the social network, the companies said on Monday.

• Group Names Five Polls That Will Determine Inclusion in Fall Presidential Debates

  August 15, 2016 02:00 p.m.

  The Commission on Presidential Debates has named the five organizations whose polls will determine whether third party candidates appear on stage in the fall debates.

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  Can We Mix the Debates and the NFL?

  August 1, 2016 07:39 p.m.

  Two of the three scheduled presidential debates this fall will clash with prime-time NFL games. The solution? Hold the debates during the games.

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  Presidential Debates Face NFL Blitz

  August 1, 2016 04:29 p.m.

  The Commission on Presidential Debates generally managed to sidestep football games in its scheduling up to 2012. This year’s debates will go up against Monday Night Football and Sunday Night Football.

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  When Presidential Debates Matter

  September 21, 2016 06:47 p.m.

  With so many voters unhappy, a mistake by Trump or Clinton could scramble it all.

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  Univision Protests Lack of Hispanic Moderator in Debates

  September 2, 2016 06:27 p.m.

  Univision CEO Randy Falco sent a letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates criticizing the lack of a Hispanic moderator.

• White House Spokesman Rebuts Trump’s Clinton Comment With Own Drug Gibe

  October 17, 2016 07:13 p.m.

  White House press secretary Josh Earnest on Monday joked that Donald Trump “snorted” his way through the first presidential debates, lobbing a drug accusation back at the GOP presidential nominee, who two days earlier suggested his opponent had used substances to enhance her debate performance.

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  Poll: Debates Will Be Major Influence for a Third of Voters

  September 25, 2016 07:58 p.m.

  The campaigns of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton acknowledged the huge stakes of Monday’s televised presidential debate, saying the event could shape the opinions of a large number of Americans.

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  Capital Journal Daybreak: Stakes High for Trump in Presidential Debates, More

  August 25, 2016 08:18 a.m.

  Today on the campaign trail and more of the biggest news stories and exclusive features from Washington on politics, policy, financial regulation and defense.

• Hillary Clinton Accepts Presidential Debate Schedule

  August 8, 2016 11:58 p.m.

  Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman said Monday that she plans to participate in the three scheduled presidential debates, challenging rival Donald Trump to do the same.

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  Debate Commission Pushes Back Against Trump’s Claims of ‘Rigging’

  July 31, 2016 05:07 p.m.

  The group that organizes the presidential debates is rejecting complaints from the Trump campaign that the events are rigged this year because they are scheduled at times likely to draw a smaller audience.

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  We Need Better Presidential Debates

  February 21, 2016 06:09 p.m.

  Oxford-style would tell us more than the current uninformative and stilted face-offs.

• Democrats Plan to Stick With Fewer Presidential Debates

  August 25, 2015 10:33 a.m.

  Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz stood by her party's decision to sharply limit the number of presidential debates this election cycle, saying that the small Democratic field required a different set up than the 17-candidate Republican race.

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  Debate Illuminates Voters’ Stark Choice

  September 27, 2016 12:01 a.m.

  If presidential debates are supposed to illuminate differences and get candidates to engage directly and critically, Monday’s meeting of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton did its job almost from the outset, Gerald F. Seib writes.

• Debate Over Debates: Clinton Campaign Manager Pushes Back on Trump Criticism

  August 21, 2016 04:06 p.m.

  Hillary Clinton's campaign manager pushed back on Sunday against Donald Trump's criticism of the conditions for this fall's presidential debates, saying the rules and dates were set long ago.