Debate Candidates Each Night

The highly anticipated first 2020 presidential debate between donald trump and joe biden took place tuesday with no opening handshake due to covid 19 and several reminders to both candidates to respect the allotted time of each candidate.

Debate candidates each night. Bennet bullock de blasio delaney gabbard gillibrand hickenlooper inslee ryan and williamson. Candidates will be allowed one minute answers 30 second follow ups closing statements and responses to other candidates based on the moderators discretion according to campaign operatives briefed on debate planning. After more than a year of circling each other republican president donald trump and democratic challenger joe biden met on the debate stage tuesday night in ohio. Cnn split the random drawing for debate night spots into three groups based on public polling support and drew candidates names and dates from two separate boxes.

The candidates qualified for the debates by either hitting at least 1 support in three qualifying polls or by pulling in. The debate hosts ensured each group would be split equally among the two nights and then held a random drawing within each group of candidates rather than a totally random pick among the full. The first group of 10.