Four media outlets from Spain and Latin America join together to broadcast live the first debate between Trump and Biden

In the early hours of next Tuesday, September 29 to Wednesday, September 30, 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 come together to produce a live program that will broadcast the event in Spanish through the consortium’s media websites. 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 carried out from the Maldita.es editorial office in Madrid, hosted by Carlos Hernández-Echevarría and Clara Jiménez Cruz, and will feature analysis by journalists from El Faro, Ojo Público and Dromómanos . Thanks to an agreement with the American network Telemundo , the consortium will use the American channel’s signal to broadcast the debate with simultaneous translation into Spanish. Additionally, throughout the night, the Maldita.es fact-checking team will review the candidates’ lies and the great conspiracy theories that have circulated around the campaign. 

The debate itself will last 90 minutes and will be held in Cleveland, Ohio, from 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 afterwards to analyze everything that the face-to-face between Trump and Biden gives. Furthermore, during the debate, journalists will explain and analyze its highlights. 

The moderator of the debate, FOX News journalist Chris Wallace, has already announced what the topics of this Tuesday’s debate will be, the first of three that will pit Trump against Biden. The candidates will discuss their political trajectories, the recent Supreme Court vacancy, the pandemic, the state of the economy, race relations and protests in cities, as well as election security.