In the early hours of next Tuesday 29 to Wednesday 30 September, Donald Trump and Joe Biden will face each other in the first debate of the 2020 presidential campaign and four media outlets from Spain and Latin America have joined forces to produce a live program that will broadcast the event in Spanish through the websites of the consortium’s media outlets. The broadcast will begin at 2:30 am Spanish peninsular time, at 6:30 pm in El Salvador and at 7:30 pm in Peru and Mexico.
The program will be produced from the newsroom of Maldita.es in Madrid, hosted by Carlos Hernández-Echevarría and Clara Jiménez Cruz, and will feature analysis from the journalists of El Faro, Ojo Público and Dromómanos. Thanks to an agreement with the US network Telemundo, the consortium will use the signal of the US channel to broadcast the debate with simultaneous translation into Spanish. In addition, throughout the night, the fact-checking team of Maldita.es will review the candidates’ lies and the major conspiracy theories that have circulated around the campaign.
The debate itself will last 90 minutes and will be held in Cleveland, Ohio, at Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic. The special program in Spanish produced by the media consortium will begin half an hour before the debate and will continue for 30 minutes afterward to analyze everything that emerges from the face-to-face between Trump and Biden. In addition, during the debate, journalists will explain and analyze its highlights.
The moderator of the debate, FOX News journalist Chris Wallace, has already announced the topics of this Tuesday’s debate, the first of three that will pit Trump against Biden. The candidates will discuss their political records, the recent vacancy on the Supreme Court, the pandemic, the state of the economy, race relations and protests in cities, as well as election security.