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Biden/Trump presidential debate: Watch or listen with HPR

Former Vice President Joe Biden and President Trump are currently set to debate three times.
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Biden and Trump are the only presidential candidates who qualified for the debate stage. Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. failed to meet the threshold, which required candidates to poll at 15% or higher in four national surveys and appear on enough state ballots that could theoretically push them past the needed 270 Electoral College votes to secure the presidency.

President Biden and former President Donald Trump will face off in the first presidential debate of the 2024 general election tonight in Atlanta.

The debate starts at 3 p.m. HST and is scheduled to last 90 minutes, with no studio audience and two commercial breaks.

It's hosted by CNN — rather than the debate commission that usually organizes them — and moderated by Jake Tapper and Dana Bash. It's also governed by new rules, which include turning off each candidate's microphone while the other is speaking.


Streaming

Video: Watch the debate live on YouTube via PBS News using the player above

Audio: Listen on our radio livestream by pressing the "play" button on this page, or listen on your phone or tablet using the Hawaiʻi Public Radio app (iOS/Android).

Radio

Tune into HPR-1 from 3 -5 p.m. for "Live Special Coverage of the CNN Presidential Debate Simulcast on NPR News."

Where to listen:

Oʻahu
HPR-1: 88.1 KHPR

Kauaʻi
HPR-1: 89.9 KIPL, 88.1 KHPR

Lānaʻi
HPR-1: 90.7 KKUA, 103.1 KJHF

Maui
HPR-1: 90.7 KKUA, 103.1 KJHF

Molokaʻi
HPR-1: 90.7 KKUA, 103.1 KJHF

Hawaiʻi Island
HPR-1: 88.7 KHPH, 89.1 KANO, 90.7 KKUA, 94.9 K235CN


For live updates about the debate from NPR, click here.

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