How debates became high-risk and low-reward in the viral era

Half of the Senate and a third of gubernatorial races will go without a debate between major party candidates in the 2026 ...
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Will Nevadans see a Lombardo-Ford debate?

Nevada voters had only one chance to hear a back-and-forth between both top gubernatorial candidates in the run-up to the 2022 race ultimately won by Gov. Joe Lombardo. This time around, not a single ...
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Battenfeld: Whining about debates a losing strategy

The last refuge of a losing campaign is complaining about debates. That’s the problem facing Massachusetts Republican Senate candidate John Deaton, who is trying unsuccessfully to get Democratic ...
Politico

Winning Is the Only Thing: My Journey Into the Viral, Vicious World of Political Online Debate

Catherine Kim is an assistant editor at POLITICO Magazine. Andrew Wilson peers into the camera. A conservative online debater known for viral videos dunking on liberals, he’s wearing a black shirt in ...
nytimes.com

Debate Shows Are Having a Moment. Here Come the Democrats.

As millions tune in to hyperpartisan face-offs on YouTube or TikTok, can the left find its own Charlie Kirk? As millions tune in to hyperpartisan face-offs on YouTube or TikTok, can the left find its ...
Miami Herald

Shutting Donalds’ opponents out of GOP debate ‘counterproductive,’ DeSantis says

Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to see a debate among the Republican candidates vying to replace him. But the race’s front-runner, U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, has already refused to do so. On Thursday, a ...
The New Yorker

The Very American, Very Intense World of High-School Debate

One of America’s sunnier national convictions is that when people disagree it is useful, even virtuous, for competing sides to make their cases to the public. We wrap this belief in decorum and ...