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In a mayoral debate on WWL-TV, LaToya Cantrell and Desiree Charbonnet gave their final push to voters.

Kennedy started his presidential run just months after this article came out. Ahead of him were a series of famous televised debates with opponent Richard Nixon, the first presidential debates to be televised.

Local community leaders and voters gathered last night to launch a nonpartisan organization that sets a higher standard for debates in local races.

The two candidates getting ready for election for Philadelphia District Attorney showed up at Masterman High School for a debate, but they never faced off.

At least three Kansas Republican candidates for governor have reservations over possible debate rules, and one has ruled out signing a draft agreement.

Lynn submitted its application to the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD).

It's a little less than a month until voters go to the polls to decide who will be the next governor.

The debate was a playful exchange in which the four top-polling contenders described their models for how government should work and shared a few zingers.

A Republican Utah mayor considered the front-runner in a race to replace Jason Chaffetz in Congress ignored his opponents' efforts in a debate to tie him to President Donald Trump, who struggled last year to gain favor with Utah's conservative but Mormon-majority population.

New York City’s first mayoral debate ahead of the Nov. 7 election devolved into a circuslike spectacle Tuesday night, with the three leading candidates talking over one another, the audience jeering invectives and Mayor Bill de Blasio’s chief bodyguard helping kick one heckler out.

Hundreds of questions on housing, the environment, crime and more have been submitted by the public for Tuesday’s mayoral debate.

Taking the same stage for the first time, the crowded field of Democratic candidates for governor called for expanding the state's health care program for the needy.