Commission on Presidential Debates

The second presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden and the mute button, explained.

Debate watchers surveyed in a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll said, by a 15-point margin, Biden performed better than Trump.

NBC's Kristen Welker brought control to the moderator's chair for the final presidential debate, a calmer matchup still full of lies and attacks.

With the November election just 11 days away and the final presidential debate over, President Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden have entered the final stretch of the 2020 campaign.

A producer from the Commission on Presidential Debates will take on the task instead.

President Trump appeared to have his microphone cut off for a brief moment while he was explaining his health care plan during the final presidential debate in Nashville, Tenn., on Thursday night.

President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden squared off on Thursday night (Oct. 22) for the last time before the Nov. 3 election.

The president even praised the veteran NBC correspondent at one point, after spending days attacking her.

After the debate, one of the president's advisers told White House correspondent Paula Reid said the president stuck to the plan.

With Election Day less than two weeks away, President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, debated each other for the last time Thursday night.

President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden faced off for the final time, but the much-promised mute button seemed to have gone missing.

With 12 days left before Election Day, President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden are set to square off in person in Tennessee for the final time Thursday night.

President Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden clashed over alleged foreign financial entanglements in the final presidential debate on Thursday, with Trump telling Biden "you owe an explanation to the American people" about son Hunter Biden's past business dealings as the former vice president empathetically denied anything "unethical" took place.

This debate is Trump and Biden's last chance to appeal to a broad base of viewers days before the general election.

President Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden are in Nashville on Thursday night. The debate begins at 9 p.m. ET. Listen live with NPR analysis.

"Hopefully [Trump will]play by the rules," Biden said as he boarded his plane for Tennessee. "I'm looking forward to this."

Inside the life, career, and politics of NBC's Kristen Welker, moderator for 2020's third and final presidential debate taking place tonight.

Some advisers are urging Trump to trade his aggressive demeanor from the first debate for a lower-key style but it's unclear whether the president will l...

The presidential debate on Thursday will give voters their final opportunity to compare President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden side-by-side during an event that represents an opportunity for Trump and a potential pitfall for Biden in a race that polls indicate Biden is leading significantly

The institution of a "mute button" for parts of Thursday's presidential debate between President Trump and Joe Biden is meant to enforce the agreed-upon rules rather than change them, Commission on Presidential Debates Co-Chairman Frank Fahrenkopf told "The Story" Wednesday.