Only Vice Presidential Debate tonight at 9pm et / 6pm pt

Joe Biden and Paul RyanThe one and only Vice Presidential debate between Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan will happen tonight from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. The air time and broadcast channels will be identical to that of the first Presidential Debate and we will carry the live VP debate stream right here on this page beginning around 8pm et. The VP debate will be 90 minutes in length.

Full Video: Watch Full VP Debate Video

VP Debate Air Time: Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 9pm et / 8pm ct / 7pm mt / 6pm pt

Channels: ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and more including CNN Espanol and others

Topics: Not yet released as of this post, expect them prior to Thursday

Moderator: Martha Raddatz (ABC News Chief Foreign Correspondent)

The debate will cover both foreign and domestic topics and be divided into nine time segments of approximately 10 minutes each. The moderator will ask an opening question, after which each candidate will have two minutes to respond. The moderator will use the balance of the time in the segment for a discussion of the question.

We will have a live video stream embedded as well as a list of available live streams from other organizations. The complete video will be available, typically within a couple hours of the debate’s conclusion. We will post the full video as well.


Nate Ashworth

The Founder and Editor-In-Chief of Election Central. He's been blogging elections and politics for over a decade. He started covering the 2008 Presidential Election which turned into a full-time political blog in 2012 and 2016 that continues today.

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