President Biden and former president Donald Trump both previously agreed to participate in the CNN debate, set for June 27 in Atlanta, and a Sept. 10 debate broadcast by ABC News. They are bypassing a decades-old tradition of three fall meetings organized by the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates. Other non-major party candidates, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., face lesser odds of qualifying for the CNN debate because of polling and ballot access requirements. The inclusion of corporate sponsors is a departure from Commission on Presidential Debates events. No audienceCNN previously confirmed that there would be no studio audience present during the June debate, which has not been the case in many previous presidential debates.

Source: CNN June 15, 2024 23:12 UTC