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Gov. Brad Little, who is seeking a second term; state Rep. Priscilla Giddings, who is seeking higher office as lieutenant governor; and Congressman Mike Simpson, who is seeking his 13th term in the U.S. House, let Idaho voters down by announcing they would not publicly debate their opponents in the

Budd, the Republican frontrunner in the race to fill retiring U.S. Sen. Richard Burr’s seat, is testing a tactic that circumvents one of the traditional ways voters get to know candidates. By avoiding debates, the congressman has made a strategic bet that campaign events and millions of dollars in

On Tuesday, four candidates for L.A. mayor demanded to be included in a May 1 debate organized by Cal State Los Angeles and the League of Women Voters of Greater Los Angeles.

Debates stopped serving a constructive purpose once the media gave up and started covering them like cage matches.

Mayor Paul TenHaken and his two challengers, Taneeza Islam and David Zokaites, took to the stage at the Washington Pavilion for the mayoral debate on Monday evening.

When a brief power failure hit in the middle of a Sunday debate between two candidates for U.S. Senate, someone in the pitch-black room blurted out a single word that drew lots of laughter: “Fetterman.”

Attorney General Maura Healey said Thursday she would agree to debate Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz twice between the party's convention in June and the September primary, a much more limited schedule than the three pre-convention debates Chang-Diaz had been seeking.

Why debate when you can control the medium and audience and not have to put up with pesky moderators or, worse yet, opponents?

Five Republican candidates for U.S. Senate said the 2020 presidential election was stolen and a sixth said there was fraud when asked during a debate in Greene County on Monday night.

A time-honored staple of political campaigns, the traditional candidate debate, appears to be on life support.

The Ohio Debate Commission is hosting a few debates this week, two of which come Monday for the candidates aiming to replace the seat of Sen. Rob Portman who announced he will retire.

Recently, U.S. Sen. James Lankford declined a debate, saying he didn’t want to give his opponent free air time.