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1 | Year | Democrat | Republican | Locale | Media Moderators/Panelists | Video | Transcript | Election Day | Days Before Election | Notes |
2 | October 15, 1976 | Sen. Walter Mondale | Sen. Bob Dole | Houston, Texas | James Hoge (moderator), Marilyn Berger, Walter Mears, Hal Bruno | link | link | November 2, 1976 | 18 | Dole referred to "Democrat wars", Mondale responded: "Senator Dole has richly earned his reputation as a hatchet man." |
3 | October 11, 1984 | Rep. Geraldine Ferraro | VP George H.W. Bush | Philadelphia, Pa. | Sander Vanocur (moderator), John Mashek, Jack White, Norma Quarles, Robert Boyd | link | link | November 6, 1984 | 26 | Ferraro to Bush: "your patronizing attitude that you have to teach me about foreign policy"; Bush next day said "we tried to kick a little ass last night" in debate |
4 | October 5, 1988 | Sen. Lloyd Bentsen | Sen. Dan Quayle | Omaha, Neb. | Judy Woodruff (moderator), John Margolis, Tom Brokaw, Brit Hume | link | link | November 8, 1988 | 34 | "You're no Jack Kennedy" |
5 | October 13, 1992 | Sen. Al Gore | VP Dan Quayle | Atlanta, Ga. | Hal Bruno | link | link | November 3, 1992 | 21 | Independent James Stockdale also participated: "Who am I? Why am I here?" & "I feel like I'm an observer at a pingpong game" after repeated Quayle-Gore bickering |
6 | October 9, 1996 | VP Al Gore | ex-Rep./HUD Sec Jack Kemp | St. Petersburg, Fla. | Jim Lehrer | link | link | November 5, 1996 | 27 | Gore to Kemp: "If you won't use any football stories, I won't tell any of my warm and humorous stories about chlorofluorocarbon abatement." |
7 | October 5, 2000 | Sen. Joe Lieberman | ex-Rep./Defense Sec Dick Cheney | Danville, Ky. | Bernard Shaw | link | link | November 7, 2000 | 33 | NYT: "With a studied civility," Lieberman and Cheney "spelled out their tickets' differences on taxation and foreign policy" in a debate "that more resembled an academic seminar" |
8 | October 5, 2004 | Sen. John Edwards | VP Dick Cheney | Cleveland, Ohio | Gwen Ifill | link | link | November 2, 2004 | 28 | NYT: "strikingly personal and bitter debate"; Cheney: "What we did in Iraq was exactly the right thing to do. " |
9 | October 2, 2008 | Sen. Joe Biden | Gov. Sarah Palin | St. Louis, Mo. | Gwen Ifill | link | link | November 4, 2008 | 33 | Biden: "It's time for America to get up together."; Palin: "Say it ain't so, Joe, there you go again pointing backwards again." |
10 | October 11, 2012 | VP Joe Biden | Rep. Paul Ryan | Danville, Ky. | Martha Raddatz | link | link | November 6, 2012 | 26 | Biden: "malarkey" (3 times) |
11 | October 4, 2016 | Sen. Tim Kaine | Gov. Mike Pence | Farmville, Va. | Elaine Quijano | link | link | November 8, 2016 | 35 | Kaine: "the thought of Donald Trump as commander-in-chief scares us to death." |
12 | October 7, 2020 | Sen. Kamala Harris | VP Mike Pence | Salt Lake City, Utah | Susan Page | link | link | November 3, 2020 | 27 | Harris: Trump Covid response "greatest failure of any presidential administration in the history of our country"; Pence: "President Donald Trump has launched a movement of everyday Americans from every walk of life." |
13 | October 1, 2024 | Gov. Tim Walz | Sen. JD Vance | New York City | Norah O'Donnell, Margaret Brennan | link | link | November 5, 2024 | 35 | |
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15 | Prepared by Greg Giroux (@greggiroux on X/Twitter, @greggiroux.bsky.social on BlueSky) | |||||||||
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17 | https://www.debates.org/voter-education/debate-transcripts/ | |||||||||
18 | https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/app-categories/elections-and-transitions/debates/vice-presidential-debates | |||||||||
19 | C-SPAN.org | |||||||||
20 | There was no vice-presidential debate in 1980 | |||||||||
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