President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are set to appear on stage Thursday for the first presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle.
The debate will be hosted by CNN and is expected to begin at 9 p.m. ET in Atlanta.
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"The debate will be held in CNN's Atlanta studios. CNN Anchors Jake Tapper and Dana Bash will serve as moderators. To ensure candidates may maximize the time allotted in the debate, no audience will be present," CNN said in a news release shared with Newsweek.
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"The CNN Presidential Debate will air live on CNN, CNN International, CNN en Español, CNN Max and stream without a cable login on CNN.com. CNN will make the debate available to simulcast on additional broadcast and cable news networks in the United States."
CNN will also be streaming the debate on its YouTube channel, with coverage beginning at 8:30 p.m. ET.
In addition to CNN, some other networks are expected to air a simulcast of the debate.
"From 9-11 PM/ET, FNC will present FOX News Democracy 2024: CNN Presidential Debate, featuring the simulcast of CNN's presidential debate while FBN will simulcast FNC. FOX News Sunday's Shannon Bream will anchor coverage of the debate on the FOX Network which will also simulcast the CNN debate," Fox News Media said in a news release.
According to Deadline, NBC News and MSNBC are also expected to stream a simulcast of the debate on their own networks. ABC News is also expected to present a simulcast of CNN's debate, as Americans can watch either on cable or streaming devices.
CNBC is also expected to live stream the debate on its website.
In a statement to Newsweek on Monday, Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung said: "The media wants to lower Joe Biden's debate performance bar so low he gets a participation trophy simply for standing upright for 90 minutes, but make no doubt about it—Biden will be highly prepared and alert on debate night, relying on the same perfectly calibrated dosage used to deliver his widely praised 2024 State of the Union Address or his 2012 thrashing of Paul Ryan in the VP debate.
"If given a fair opportunity to present his vision for America, President Trump will lay out exactly how he plans to improve the lives of every American suffering from everything becoming too expensive and every community being turned into a border community thanks to Joe Biden's incompetence."
Newsweek reached out to Biden's campaign spokesperson via email for comment on Monday.
Update 6/27/24, 10:26 a.m. ET: This story has been updated with further information.
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