Last Updated on October 18, 2016 by cassnetwork
The following information regarding debates between candidates for president and Indiana’s candidates for governor and U.S. Senate, was compiled from information from the Indiana Debate Commission and Commission on Presidential Debates.
US SENATE DEBATE
Democrat Evan Bayh, Republican Todd Young and Libertarian Lucy Brenton will meet Oct. 18 at 7 p.m. in a televised debate organized by the Indiana Debate Commission.
The debate will be broadcast live from a studio of public television station WFYI in Indianapolis.
PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES
A third presidential debate is set for Wednesday, Oct. 19 at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas from 9 to 10:30 p.m. The moderator will be Chris Wallace, Anchor, Fox News Sunday. The format will be identical to the first presidential debate.
Wallace has selected the topics for that debate.
Subject to possible changes because of news developments, the topics for the October 19 debate are as follows, not necessarily to be brought up in this order:
Debt and entitlements
Immigration
Economy
Supreme Court
Foreign hot spots
Fitness to be President
The format calls for six 15-minute time segments. One 15-minute segment will focus on each of the topics listed above.
GUBERNATORIAL DEBATE
The third debate between Indiana’s candidates for governor on Oct. 25 will focus on health and social issues, with Mizell Stewart III, vice president of news operations for Gannett and USA Today Network, president of the American Society of News Editors and former editor of the Evansville Courier & Press. The debate will be made available to television stations for broadcasting live 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern time. The broadcast partner for the Oct. 25 debate is WFIE, the NBC affiliate in Evansville.