Fast Facts
- President Biden, a Democrat, and former President Trump, a Republican, will meet in Atlanta on Thursday for the first presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle, hosted by CNN.
- The CNN Presidential Debate will begin at 9 p.m. ET and will be simulcast on the Fox News Channel. Viewers can also tune into Fox’s live coverage before and after the debate for expert analysis.
- Only Biden and Trump will be on the stage, as the third party and independent candidates running for the White House — including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — failed to reach the qualifying thresholds.
- The candidates bypassed the Commission on Presidential Debates — which had organized these showdowns every four years for more than three decades — and instead mutually agreed to the rules and conditions offered by CNN.