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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.

Last week, four Republican candidates for governor met in a Lincoln television studio to discuss issues affecting Nebraska’s present and future.

The Student Government Association held its first in-person presidential debate since 2019 on Thursday night March 24.

Central to Spotlight PA’s mission is informing, equipping, and empowering voters in Pennsylvania to make educated decisions at the polls, and that includes subjecting any candidate for higher office to tough, nonpartisan questioning about their record and their vision.

Four Republican candidates for governor in the party’s crowded primary race say they will not join a debate before the primary election unless it is moderated by a Republican who lives in Pennsylvania, eliciting criticism that they are afraid of hard questions.

When Republican political consultant Samuel Chen first saw a missive from four Republican gubernatorial candidates, laying out their exacting joint criteria for participating in primary election debates, he was a little baffled.

A near-physical altercation in the nasty Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Ohio led to a demand Monday from some military veterans that one candidate apologize for his seeming insult, while the target of their request said he respects and honors the military but stands by his statement.

The two Republican polling frontrunners got in each other’s faces Friday evening.