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 The dates and venues have been announced for the 2016 Presidential debates between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The date for the Vice Presidential debate between Tim Kaine and Mike Pence has also been announced. Note the broadcast times and channels are identical for the Presidential debates and the Vice Presidential debate. 
 
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 Date/Details Monday, September 26, 2016 
 
 First presidential debate 
 
 Video: Watch Full Debate Video 
 
 Transcript: Washington Post 
 
 Moderator: Lester Holt, Anchor, NBC Nightly News 
 
 Location: Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 
 
 
 
 The first debate will be divided into six time segments of approximately 15 minutes each on major topics to be selected by the moderator and announced at least one week before the debate. The moderator will open each segment with a question, after which each candidate will have two minutes to respond. Candidates will then have an opportunity to respond to each other. The moderator will use the balance of the time in the segment for a deeper discussion of the topic. Tuesday, October 4, 2016 
 
 Vice presidential debate 
 
 Video: Watch Full VP Debate Video 
 
 Transcript:: Washington Post 
 
 Moderator: Elaine Quijano, Anchor, CBSN and Correspondent, CBS News 
 
 Location: Longwood University, Farmville, VA 
 
 
 
 The Vice Presidential debate will be divided into nine time segments of approximately 10 minutes each. The moderator will ask an opening question, after which each candidate will have two minutes to respond. The moderator will use the balance of the time in the segment for a deeper discussion of the topic. Sunday, October 9, 2016 
 
 Second presidential debate 
 
 Video: Full Debate Video 
 
 Transcript: Washington Post 
 
 Moderator: Martha Raddatz, Chief Global Affairs Correspondent and Co-Anchor of "This Week," ABC 
 
 Moderator: Anderson Cooper, Anchor, CNN 
 
 Location: Washington University in St. Louis, MO 
 
 
 
 The second presidential debate will take the form of a town meeting, in which half of the questions will be posed directly by citizen participants and the other half will be posed by the moderator based on topics of broad public interest as reflected in social media and other sources. The candidates will have two minutes to respond and there will be an additional minute for the moderator to facilitate further discussion. The town meeting participants will be uncommitted voters selected by the Gallup Organization. Wednesday, October 19, 2016 
 
 Third presidential debate 
 
 Video: Debate Full Video 
 
 Transcript: Washington Post 
 
 Moderator: Chris Wallace, Anchor, Fox News Sunday 
 
 
 
 Location: University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 
 
 
 
 The format for the third debate will be identical to the first presidential debate. 
 
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 2016 Democratic Primary Debate Schedule ||||| Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson’s campaign said Tuesday that he will be on the ballot in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia, marking the first time in two decades a third-party presidential ticket has appeared on every state ballot. 
 
 “With a majority of Americans wanting a choice other than Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, today we now know for certain that on Election Day, every voter in America will have that alternative option,” Mr. Johnson said. 
 
 ... ||||| FILE - In this May 18, 2016 file photo, Libertarian presidential candidate, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson leaves the Utah State Capitol after meeting with with legislators, in Salt Lake City. The... (Associated Press) 
 
 DENVER (AP) — Most presidential hopefuls spend their Septembers in places like Ohio and Florida, hoping to win over a handful of swing voters in battleground states. But Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson is crisscrossing the country in a desperate, last-ditch attempt to boost his national poll numbers and qualify for the presidential debates. 
 
 Johnson needs to reach an average of 15 percent in five national polls that the Commission on Presidential Debates relies upon to decide who qualifies for the first presidential debate on Sept. 26. But even his campaign manager acknowledges reaching that threshold is "unrealistic." 
 
 Johnson currently is just below 9 percent in three of those polls with results available so far. He is campaigning from Maine to Florida to Washington State in hopes of closing the gap. But he may be raising his profile the wrong way. 
 
 Last week, Johnson became a viral sensation for being stumped by a question on national television about what to do about the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo. His baffled response — "What is Aleppo?" — ricocheted around the internet. 
 
 "People get excited at one faux pas," complained Ed Crane, who runs an outside group that supports Johnson and bought $100,000 worth of national television ads to boost the candidate's profile last week. "To me, this overreaction is a sign that people are starting to worry about Gary." 
 
 The debates are the best and possibly only chance for the relatively underfunded former New Mexico governor and medical marijuana entrepreneur to become more than a protest vote. Supporters of Johnson and his vice presidential running mate, former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld, hope that debates would let the ticket broadcast its socially liberal and fiscally conservative message to a far broader audience than the people who attend his rarely covered rallies. 
 
 "It would be a huge amount for name recognition and exposure to the ideas," said Chris Rufer, a California tomato-processing magnate who has donated more than $1 million to Johnson and groups supporting him. "It's very important that it happens." 
 
 But the poll numbers are daunting. All five polls — by the three major networks, Fox News Channel and CNN — were scheduled to have new results before the debate deadline. In the three that have come out — Fox, CNN and ABC — Johnson registered at 9 percent, 7 percent and 9 percent respectively. That means he'd need to exceed 20 percent in the remaining two to clear the 15 percent mark on average. 
 
 Ron Neilson, Johnson's campaign manager, said in an interview that making the debates will be challenging. "The 15 percent is somewhat, I'll say, unrealistic," Neilson said. "It's probably too high." 
 
 Because of the widespread voter disgust with the two major-party candidates, Johnson has gotten more attention and support than many other recent third-party challengers, but his resources are still dwarfed by Clinton and Trump. For example, Johnson stirred excitement last month when he announced he had raised $2.9 million in the first two weeks of August. Clinton's campaign said it raised $143 million that month and the Trump team reported a $90 million haul. 
 
 Johnson is airing $900,000 in national radio ads and $500,000 in television ads in 10 mostly Western states where his campaign thinks his message best resonates. In contrast, Clinton and her supporters have aired $150 million worth of ads, according to Kantar Media's Campaign Media Analysis Group. Trump and his supporters have spent less but have still bought more than $7 million in airtime going forward. 
 
 The campaign has been critical of the nonprofit Commission on Presidential Debates for the 15 percent threshold, and Neilson said the campaign is urging supporters to pressure the commission to relax its criteria. 
 
 It's a familiar role for the commission, which was formed in 1987 to organize presidential debates and has often been criticized and sued by third-party candidates who argue it favors the two established political parties. It is chaired by a former Republican National Committee chairman and Bill Clinton's former White House press secretary. 
 
 The commission would not comment. 
 
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 Keep track on how much Clinton and Trump are spending on television advertising, and where they're spending it, via AP's interactive ad tracker. http://elections.ap.org/content/ad-spending
– Gary Johnson may not have known until recently what Aleppo is, but the libertarian candidate for president has hit a major milestone: He will appear on the ballot in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. That's the first time since 1996 that a third-party candidate has qualified for all the ballots (that year it was the Libertarian Party's Harry Browne and, of course, Ross Perot of the Reform Party). Johnson's next mission is to be allowed to take part in the presidential debates, which start Sept. 26; in order to do that, he needs to be at 15% in five "marquee polls," the Wall Street Journal reports. He's currently at just 9 points (or, in one case, 7) in three of those polls, the AP reports. His campaign is taking out a full-page ad in the New York Times urging the Commission on Presidential Debates to relax its criteria.