Thursday, August 6, 2015

The First Debate for 2016



Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Mike Huckabee, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Chris Christie and John Kasich all qualified for the 9 p.m. eastern televised showdown at the Quicken Loans Arena, the network announced on air Tuesday night.

The debate, sponsored with Facebook, will be moderated by Fox News’ Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly and Chris Wallace.

In a Thursday evening on-air statement by the moderators, the news channel said it determined who gets to take the 10 podiums after averaging the five most recent national polls. Fox said it used recent Bloomberg, CBS News, Fox News, Monmouth University and Quinnipiac University polls.


Undercard: First presidential candidates' debate between GOP candidates
Date: Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015
Time: 5 p.m. EDT
Host: Fox News and Facebook
Moderator: Bill Hemmer and Martha MacCallum

“Due to the overwhelming interest in the FOX News Facebook Debate Event Night on August 6th and in a concerted effort to include and accommodate the now 16 Republican candidate field — the largest in modern political history — FOX News is expanding participation in the 5 PM/ET debate to all declared candidates whose names are consistently being offered to respondents in major national polls, as recognized by Fox News”

Prime-time: First presidential candidates' debate between GOP candidates
Date: Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015
Time: 9 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. EDT
Host: Fox News and Facebook
Moderator: Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly and Chris Wallace

Aired on: Fox News Channel - (DirecTV - channel 360); (Dish Network - channel 205); (ATT U-verse - channel 210)

Live stream: The debate will be streamed live; ◼ click here for live streaming from livenewschat. (Check back with this post, more live stream links will be posted when they become available.)