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The New Orleans City Council will ask the city's tourism leaders to apply as a host city for presidential or vice-presidential debates in 2020.

UtahPolicy.com has learned the Utah Debate Commission will apply to host a presidential debate in 2020. Additionally, the Commission on Presidential Debates, which organizes the major televised debates every four years, sent a representative to Utah late last year for a preliminary site visit.

Hosted most recently by Hofstra University, Washington University and the University of Nevada — Las Vegas, the 2016 presidential debates rallied the host institutions’ local communities as American politics descended upon them. Studies of the 2016 debate cycle concluded that host institutions’

It might sound strange, but presidential primary debates are arguably more important than general election debates. Primary voters have weak initial preferences and can vacillate among candidates, so they can be heavily influenced by events like debates. Primary debates do not attract nearly as many

Details as small as the debate schedule matter, as was shown by the 2016 election

The governor is correct to say that his debate with Molinaro with a mess. But suggesting that therefore all debates are worthless is like arguing that Randy Macho Man Savage and The Undertaker aren't suitable ambassadors of the ancient sport of Greco-Roman wrestling.

Sitting side by side, the debate was at times testy as the two candidates debated about their personal connections to the pharmaceutical industry, which is seen as an enemy in a state that has been ravaged by the opioid crisis.

And, in the end, the gubernatorial debate between Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his Republican challenger, Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro, was therapeutic in ways, for the candidates for certain and perhaps for the public as well. Cuomo and Molinaro have been taking shots at each other

Democratic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and her Republican challenger, state Rep. Geoff Diehl went head to head in their final debate of the campaign.

The final debate in the Florida governor race devolved into an extraordinary, highly personal brawl on Wednesday night when Republican Ron DeSantis and Democrat Andrew Gillum traded accusations over race and ethics in a showdown that revealed two candidates who really seem to dislike each other.

En el tercer debate presidencial de Las Vegas la confrontó por recibir a través de su fundación millones de dólares de Arabia Saudí, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, Catar y otras naciones árabes. «Hablas de mujeres y de derechos de las mujeres, ¿verdad? Y luego coges el dinero de esta gente que tira a los