How to Watch the First Donald Trump and Joe Biden Presidential Debate

Ted Johnson The opener of Saturday Night Live was a skewering of the competing town halls between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.It was an easy target: There was an outcry earlier this week when NBC scheduled a town hall with Trump against one already planned on ABC with Biden. But Savannah Guthrie, moderating the NBC News event, earned widespread praise for pressing Trump with questions and followups.Kate McKinnon, playing Guthrie, opened by saying, “Good evening America.

Joe Biden and Donald Trump had town halls at the exact same time on Thursday (October 15) (despite petitions and protests from Hollywood stars to stagger the time slots), and Biden easily won in the ratings department.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterNBC went ahead with a town hall with President Trump on Thursday night, brushing aside criticism that the event coincided with a similar event with Joe Biden on rival ABC.Trump said he did not remember when he last tested negative for COVID-19, ducking a question from “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie.

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsRefresh for updates: Tension between Thursday night’s presidential town halls continues to unfold as hoards of Twitter users are calling to boycott NBC’s coverage of President Donald Trump in favor of ABC’s Joe Biden event. Outrage sparked as NBC announced that its town hall will air at the same time and date as ABC’s.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorPresident Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden will face off (sort of) tonight in dueling town halls live in primetime, simultaneously on broadcast networks NBC and ABC, respectively.Both events were scheduled on the night of the town hall-style second presidential debate, which was canceled after Trump would not agree to a virtual event following his COVID-19 diagnosis.The Trump event will air at 8 p.m.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVMore than 100 writers, actors, directors and producers are speaking out against NBC’s plan to air a town hall with President Donald Trump tonight at 8 PM directly opposite the Joe Biden town hall on ABC.In an open letter to Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell and NBCU News Group chairman Cesar Conde, the Hollywood heavyweights are asking for the Trump town hall to be shifted from the time slot.

ABC News is taking advantage of the chaos surrounding the second presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. The network says that Biden has agreed to participate in a town hall Oct.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe foundation of the presidential debates, long a feature of an election year, is buckling.ABC News said it intends to hold a town hall with Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Thursday October 15 – the same night the former Vice President was slated to have taken part in a debate with President Donald Trump.

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“Weird Al” Yankovic plays the exasperated debate moderator in the video for the new comedy song ‘We’re All Doomed’, which sends up this week’s presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.Yankovic has teamed up with the YouTube comedy songwriters The Gregory Brothers (AKA Schmoyoho) for the song, which parodies Tuesday’s (September 29) heated debate between the US President and his Democratic opponent in next month’s election.Dressed in a suit and tie, Yankovic begins the video by

Ted Johnson Organizers of the presidential debates are planning changes to bring “order” to future events, after Tuesday’s widely panned matchup drew widespread criticism for going off the rails.Almost all of that was because of President Donald Trump’s repeated interruptions, creating an atmosphere that had commentators describing it as a “shit show.”In a statement, the Commission on Presidential Debates said, “Last night’s debate made clear that additional structure should be added to the

Donald Trump and Democrat rival Joe Biden held the first of their three campaign debates.

the Mirror reports.CNN presenter Jake tapper later described the debate as 'a hot mess, inside a dumpster fire, inside a train wreck' saying: "That was the worst debate I have ever seen. It wasn't even a debate.

Dominic Patten, Ted Johnson In the wise words of George W. Bush, “well that was some weird shit.”The first of three debates between incumbent Donald Trump and former Vice-President Joe Biden was a fierce fracas that left most of the rules and portions of reality behind almost from the jump.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterThe first presidential debate got off to a bumpy start on Tuesday night, as President Trump repeatedly interrupted Joe Biden, who at one point told him to “shut up.”The candidates sparred over the Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Court and the COVID-19 pandemic.