The University of Notre Dame will host the first of three 2020 presidential debates next fall, after the party’s choose their nominees.
The Commission on Presidential Debates on Friday announced the private, Catholic university in South Bend, Indiana, will host the kickoff debate, on Tuesday, Sept. 29.
The second presidential debate will be held on Thursday, Oct. 15 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, at the University of Michigan, while the third debate will be held on Oct. 22 at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.
The vice presidential debate will be held at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Wednesday, Oct. 7.
The debates will presumably feature President Trump, though he currently faces Republican primary challenges from three former officeholders. The Democratic nomination is wide-open, with former Vice President Joe Biden and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren in the top-tier, while more than a dozen other Demoratic candidates are also competing for the party’s 2020 nod.
Each debate will start at 9 p.m. EST and will run for 90 minutes, without any commercial breaks.
The Commission on Presidential Debates has organized every general election debate since its founding in 1987.
