The 2024 United States presidential debates are a series of debates between major candidates of the 2024 United States presidential election. The first general election debate, sponsored by CNN, was attended by former presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden and then-presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump and was held on June 27, 2024. The second debate, which will be sponsored by ABC, is scheduled to be held on September 10, 2024.
Four general election debates sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) were originally scheduled to be held between September 16 and October 9, 2024. Both Biden and Trump were against the CPD's debate format and schedule.[1][2] In May 2024, both campaigns agreed to bypass the CPD and hold the alternative debates, canceling the CPD debates.[3] Biden performed poorly during the first debate, with many commentators and Democrats calling for him to drop out of the race; the debate performance ultimately led to a series of events that resulted in Biden canceling his bid for re-election on July 21.[4] His withdrawal lead to doubts over the September 10 debate; in the wake of Biden's drop out, Trump suggested on Truth Social that the September 10 ABC debate should instead be held by Fox News.[5]
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