Tag: presidential

Here’s everything you need to know about the upcoming presidential debates

For months, voters, journalists and political observers wondered whether President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump would meet face to face this year for debates ahead of the 2024 presidential election. On Wednesday, both campaigns finally committed to at least two debates, which will look different in several ways from what we’re used to. […]

RFK Jr.’s vice presidential candidate drops $8M more into campaign

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate is making an $8 million cash infusion into their independent bid for the White House. The contribution from Nicole Shanahan, which the tech attorney and entrepreneur announced at a comedy show and campaign fundraiser on Wednesday night in Nashville, Tennessee, is more than double what the campaign raised from […]

American Samoa primary victor Jason Palmer bows out of the presidential race

Jason Palmer, the little-known Democratic presidential hopeful who notched a lone, surprising primary win in American Samoa this year, ended his campaign Wednesday. Palmer, an education technology investor and former staffer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, already endorsed President Joe Biden for re-election last month. But he stopped short of the usual next […]

New Tennessee State University board sets stage for presidential search

The newly-appointed board of trustees overseeing Tennessee State University has yet to resume the presidential search process that abruptly halted after the previous board was ousted by Republican state lawmakers in March. However, the board appointed a committee to set a path forward in the process on Wednesday evening. The ouster was met with confusion […]

CNN announces moderators for Biden-Trump presidential debate

CNN hosts Jake Tapper and Dana Bash will moderate the first 2024 presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump next month, the network announced Wednesday. Biden and Trump agreed to participate in two separate debates within minutes of each other earlier Wednesday, one on June 27 on CNN and another on […]

What we know, and don’t know, about the presidential debates

WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of questions about whether general election debates would happen, President Joe Biden and Republican nominee Donald Trump have agreed to participate in two of them: one in June and one in September. But there are still some nitty-gritty details to be worked out, including the formats of the events and […]

CNN sets first Biden-Trump presidential debate for June 27 in Atlanta

Donald Trump, then president, answers a question as Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, listens during the second and final presidential debate at Belmont University on Oct. 22, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Morry Gash-Pool/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — CNN announced on Wednesday morning that it will host a debate between President Joe Biden and […]