Trump and Biden are under pressure to perform as voters place high importance on debate

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Most Democrats and Republicans think Thursday’s presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump is important for their candidate’s campaign, according to a new poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

More than half of both Democrats and Republicans said they think the debate is extremely or very important to the success of their candidate’s campaign, and at least 80% of people in both parties said they think it is at least somewhat important, according to the poll.

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