SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE -- “It used to be that people didn’t focus on the election until after Labor Day, and the debates were designed to help people come to a decision,” said Joe Tuman, a political communications professor at San Francisco State University. “But these days, the vast majority of likely voters made up their minds long ago.”
The debate will last for 90 minutes, with Chris Wallace of Fox News serving as moderator. He will question Trump and Biden for 15 minutes on each of six topics: their records, the Supreme Court, the coronavirus pandemic, the economy, race and violence in cities and the integrity of the election.
“It’s not really a debate, which typically has a lot of interaction,” said Tuman, a former debate coach. “It’s more like dueling press conferences.”