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News Articles: Debate

From left, Republican candidates for Secretary of State Vernon Jones, Kelvin King, Gabriel Sterling and Ted Metz during their debate.

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  • Elections

In debates for the secretary of state race, a broad consensus to change voting machines forms

There was bipartisan agreement among candidates for secretary of state that Georgia voting machines need to be altered to restore faith in elections six years after the 2020 presidential election. 

April 29, 2026
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Democratic candidates for the Georgia Governor's race stand at podiums on Monday, April 27 during the Atlanta Press Club 2026 debates.

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  • Politics

Gubernatorial hopefuls debate, make their case to voters at Atlanta Press Club, GPB debates

On Monday, The Atlanta Press Club and Georgia Public Broadcasting hosted debates featuring both Democratic and Republican hopefuls for governor, as a part of the Loudermilk-Young Debate Series.

April 28, 2026
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By:
  • Chase McGee
Candidates

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  • Politics

Democratic candidates for governor debate in Atlanta

Three Democratic candidates running to become Georgia’s next governor participated in a debate hosted by 11Alive news in Atlanta on Wednesday.

April 16, 2026
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
The two candidates vying for Marjorie Taylor Greene's seat in Congress, Republican Clay Fuller (left) and Democrat Shawn Harris (right), faced each other in a debate on Sunday, March 22, 2026. Screenshot

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  • Politics

14th District candidates Clay Fuller and Shawn Harris face off in debate

The two candidates vying to replace former U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene faced off in a debate Sunday.

14th District candidates Clay Fuller and Shawn Harris face off in debate

March 23, 2026
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
Three men in suits at podiums that say Atlanta press club

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  • Politics

With incumbent Andre Dickens absent, Atlanta's mayoral candidates debate policy plans

Three candidates debated restoring federal funding, public safety, and what it means that frontrunner Andre Dickens did not participate.

October 09, 2025
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
U.S. Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) speaks to reporters in the spin room after the CNN Presidential Debate in June 2024 in Atlanta, Ga.

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  • Politics

JD Vance’s performance has audience of one: Trump, says former debate opponent

Vance’s former Democratic opponent, Tim Ryan, says the Ohio senator is likely to aggressively attack Harris-Walz during the debate Tuesday night to appeal to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

October 01, 2024
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By:
  • Karen Kasler
This combination of photos shows Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, and President Joe Biden during a presidential debate hosted by CNN, Thursday, June 27, 2024, in Atlanta.

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  • News

A raspy and sometimes halting Biden tries at debate to confront Trump, who responds with falsehoods

A raspy President Joe Biden has repeatedly sought to confront Donald Trump in their first debate ahead of the November election, as his Republican rival countered Biden's criticism by leaning into falsehoods about the economy, illegal immigration and his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.

June 27, 2024
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  • Associated Press
President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020, before boarding Marine One. Trump is en route to the Army-Navy Game at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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  • News

Trump has spent months painting Biden as incompetent. Now he's changing his tone before the debate

After months of casting President Joe Biden as a senile shell of a man incapable of putting two sentences together, Donald Trump has changed his tune.

June 26, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Suzanne Brown waves flags for Donald Trump before a ceremony to open his first Georgia campaign office, Thursday, June 13, 2024, in Fayetteville, Ga. Democratic President Joe Biden and former Republican President Donald Trump are working to win over Georgia voters ahead of the pair's first 2024 debate scheduled for Thursday, June 27, in Atlanta.

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  • News

In one affluent Atlanta suburb, Biden and Trump work to win over wary Georgia voters

Georgia is the election battleground that yielded the closest margin of any state in the 2020 election between Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump. It became the epicenter of Trump's efforts to overturn Biden's election. Now the two will meet there Thursday for their first general election debate in their rematch.

June 24, 2024
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  • Associated Press
From left: Republican candidates Jim Bennett, Mike Crane, Mike Dugan, Brian Jack and Philip Singleton participate in the Atlanta Press Club Loudermilk-Young Debate Series at GPB on April 28, 2024. The candidates are running for Georgia's Congressional District 3, an open seat currently held by Rep. Drew Ferguson, who is not seeking reelection.

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  • News

Republicans seeking Georgia congressional seat debate limits on abortion and immigration

Brian Jack sought to make a debate among Republicans for an open Georgia congressional seat all about his close ties with Donald Trump, while the other contenders are ignoring Trump's endorsement of Jack. Five Republicans running for their party's nomination in Georgia's 3rd Congressional met Sunday in an Atlanta Press Club debate.

April 29, 2024
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  • Associated Press
There's no guarantee Donald Trump, Joe Biden or Nikki Haley will share a debate stage this year.

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  • Elections

So long, presidential debates? Why we may not see Trump, Biden or Haley face off

The political debate seems to have become an endangered species, and there are no assurances we'll see Trump, Biden or Haley share the stage this year.

January 25, 2024
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By:
  • Brianna Scott
Republican presidential candidate former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley puts her hand up to Vivek Ramaswamy while he speaks to her as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (C) listens during the NBC News Republican Presidential Primary Debate.

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  • Elections

How to watch Haley, Ramaswamy, DeSantis and Christie face off in Wednesday's debate

A smaller pool of Republican candidates competing to be president will face off Wednesday night — one last time before primary elections begin in the new year.

December 06, 2023
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
In this combination of photos, Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks on Sept. 16, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa, at left, and California Gov. Gavin Newsom, speaks on Sept. 12, 2023, in Sacramento, Calif.

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  • News

DeSantis and Newsom lob insults and talk some policy in a faceoff between two White House aspirants

Thursday's 90-minute meeting was a hard-to-explain event in Georgia that pitted struggling Republican presidential hopeful Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis against Democratic rival California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who may or may not seek the presidency in four years.

December 01, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Republican presidential candidates former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott participate in the NBC News Republican Presidential Primary Debate at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County on Thursday in Miami.

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  • Elections

Here are some of the memorable moments in the third GOP presidential debate

Republican candidates seeking the nomination for the 2024 presidential nomination took the stage Wednesday night in Miami. But once again, in his absence, frontrunner Donald Trump commands attention.

November 08, 2023
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By:
  • Danielle Kurtzleben and
  • Ashley Lopez
GPB  NPR

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  • Elections

Trump bets big on Michigan with rally on GOP debate night as UAW strike continues

Seven Republicans will join the second GOP debate Wednesday but the front-runner, former President Donald Trump won't be one of them. Instead, Trump will head to Michigan to court autoworkers.

September 27, 2023
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez
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