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The 11-person Presidential Debate Academic Advisory Committee is charged with identifying key themes for academic engagement, and may establish subgroups and other working groups to involve additional faculty in the planning process.

Donald Trump is considering skipping the 2020 presidential debates, according to a New York Times report Thursday, throwing into question Belmont University's starring role as host of the final debate.

Trump will often take an extreme position as an opening salvo in negotiations. In this case, a give-me-the-moderators-I-want-or-I-won't show-up approach doesn't seem far-fetched on the surface. During the 2016 Republican primaries, the reality TV star-turned-party front-runner boycotted a Fox News

All of the presidential candidates who qualified for next week’s Democratic debate are threatening to skip the event in response to a labor dispute taking place at the debate venue, Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

Information about students’ possible access to debate tickets simply does not exist.

“The heart of democracy is addressing significant questions in open, reasoned discussion that will inform voters as they prepare to cast their votes,” said University President Rev. John I. Jenkins, CSC, ’76, ’78 M.A., who has served on the CPD’s board of directors since 2011. “Standing apart from

The university will partner on the event with the Commission on Presidential Debates and the National Democratic Institute, a nonprofit organization that works to support and strengthen democratic institutions worldwide through citizen participation, openness and accountability in government. Some

La universidad trabajará en colaboración con la Comisión Nacional para los Debates de Estados Unidos (CPD por sus siglas en inglés) y el National Democratic Institute (NDI), una organización sin fines de lucro que trabaja para apoyar y fortalecer las instituciones democráticas alrededor del mundo a

“There’s this perception that debates are this great democratic tool, where voters can find out what candidates stand for and how good they really are,” says Vincent Pons, assistant professor of business administration. “But we find that debates don’t have any effect on any group of voters.”

Here are some of the most memorable moments from Wednesday’s Democratic presidential debate in Atlanta, hosted by MSNBC and The Washington Post.

Ten candidates vying for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination took the debate stage Wednesday night in Atlanta for the fifth round of debates.