First presidential candidates’ debate between GOP candidates

Date: Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015

Time: 5 p.m. EDT

Host: Fox News and Facebook

Moderator: Bill Hemmer and Martha MacCallum

Format: The undercard debate will feature presidential candidates not in the top 10 selected for the prime-time debate. “Due to the overwhelming interest in the FOX News Facebook Debate Event Night on August 6th and in a concerted effort to include and accommodate the now 16 Republican candidate field — the largest in modern political history — Fox News is expanding participation in the 5 PM/ET debate to all declared candidates whose names are consistently being offered to respondents in major national polls, as recognized by Fox News,” said Fox News Executive Vice President, News, in a statement. “Although we are relaxing one component of our entry criteria — the requirement that candidates must score 1 percent or higher in an average of five most recent national polls — all other components of the criteria remain in effect.”

Read the article “2016 Presidential Debate Schedule: Dates, Times, Moderators and Topics” on politico.com.