With less than 40 days left in the US presidential election, President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden will hold three debates in the coming weeks to reach as many voters as possible. The first of these presidential debates will be televised on Tuesday night, US time.

By November 3, before the general election, the three televised debates are likely to be the first and last confrontation between the two candidates on the same stage.

In addition, although less attention than Trump and Biden, but there is an important agenda before the election, that is, the vice presidential candidate debate. Incumbent Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris, Biden's running mate, will also fight it out in a debate scheduled for early next month.

Key dates in the 2020 US election timetable

September 29: first presidential debate

On September 29, the first presidential debate will be held at case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. The televised debate will be hosted by Fox News anchor Chris Wallace (Chris Wallace) with no intermission.

The whole course of the debate lasts 90 minutes and is divided into six sessions, each lasting 15 minutes.

In each session, the candidate will have a concentrated debate on one of the six hot topics. Topics of debate include the candidate's history, the U.S. Supreme Court, the COVID-19 epidemic, the economy, race and violence, and the integrity of the election.

October 7: vice presidential debate

On October 7th, the only vice presidential debate before the election will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah. Democratic vice presidential candidate Camara Harris and Trump's vice president Mike Pence will compete with each other at the University of Utah.

The vice presidential debate will be chaired by Susan Page, Washington bureau chief of USA Today.

According to the New York Times, the candidates will discuss nine topics, each of which will last about 10 minutes.

October 15: second presidential debate

On October 15th, the second debate between the two presidential candidates will be held at the Adrianna Ashter Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Florida.

The event will be hosted by Steve Scully, political editor of C-Span.

According to the New York Times, the audience for the debate was voters from South Florida who had not yet cast their votes. At the scene, the audience is free to ask questions to the two presidential candidates. Biden and Trump will each have two minutes to answer each question, and host Scully will have one minute to ask additional questions after the candidate's answer.

The topics covered in this debate will be announced within a week before the event.

October 22: the last presidential debate

On October 22nd, the third and final presidential debate will be held at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.

As before, the debate lasted 90 minutes and was divided into six sessions, each 15 minutes long. The debate covers a total of six topics, which will be announced the week before the debate.

November 3: presidential Election Day

On November 3rd, American voters will vote on who will be their next president.

The method of voting is controversial.According to the tradition of previous years, most voters choose to line up at the scene and vote in person. However, due to the epidemic in the United States this year, centralized voting will expose voters to higher security risks, so a large number of American citizens are expected to choose to vote by mail.

In the past few weeks, however, Trump has made it clear that this approach will increase the likelihood that the election results will be falsified, repeatedly threatening to withhold funds for the postal service to restrict postal voting. Of course, this claim has been widely refuted by experts.

The result of the election may be postponed.Election experts believe that as a large number of people will vote before November 3, the election results may not be announced on the night of the election and will need to be postponed for a few days.

January 20: inauguration Day

On January 20, 2021, the United States will officially welcome a new president.

The President-elect and Vice-President-elect will take the oath, followed by an inaugural address. After the oath is completed, the president will attend a military parade from the U.S. Capitol to the new White House.

Although the presidential debate has not officially begun, verbal attacks between the two candidates are intensifying.

After Trump accused Biden of taking stimulants for the campaign and called for a urine test, a spokesman for Biden's campaign responded: "Vice President Biden intends to express his debate answer in words." if the president thinks his best reason is to express himself in urine, he can make the most of it. "

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