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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 11, 2019

Belmont University will host the final 2020 presidential debate on Oct. 22, The Tennessean reported today. The Commission on Presidential Debates selected Belmont from a pool of six finalists. Belmont previously hosted a presidential debate in 2008, when U.S. Sen. John McCain and former President Barack Obama met in a town hall format. The university was selected as an alternate for a presidential debate in 2016. The announcement was celebrated by a bipartisan slate of local officials, including Nashville Mayor John Cooper, Republican U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn and Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper.