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Photo: Getty Images With weeks to go before a pivotal presidential election, the spooky season is upon us once again: The specter of several presidential debates has risen from the dust to frighten and alarm anew. The 2020 debate cycle began on September 29, when Democratic candidate Joe Biden faced off against current president Donald Trump for the first time. It will end on Thursday, with a third and final presidential debate in Nashville.
Nonetheless, the show went on, with a near-unwatchable first debate on September 29 in Cleveland, and a markedly more coherent vice-presidential debate on October 7 in Salt Lake City. The second presidential debate — a town hall-style event — was supposed to take place on October 15 in Miami, but Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis, and his refusal to participate in any kind of format that didn’t put him directly in the room with Biden, derailed the plan.
How do presidential debates even work with COVID-19? According to the Washington Post, the commission winnowed the number of moderators down to one per night, in its first pandemic concession, and promised to stick to CDC health guidelines.
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