2024 Arizona Political Debates – Arizona Media Association + Arizona Local News Foundation

What makes the 2024 Arizona debates unique?

The Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association partnered to make Arizona’s 2024 debates the most accessible in Arizona history. We collaborated with dozens of local media brands to host debates for Arizona’s U.S. Senate race, U.S. Congressional districts, Corporation Commission, select county-level races and select ballot propositions.

All debates have been distributed as partnerships with local media on TV, radio, and print/digital destinations, creating statewide simulcasting of major debates, regional simulcasting of local debates, and digital distribution of every debate.

All debates also include Spanish audio translation and ASL interpreters for maximum accessibility.

Read about the groups involved

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For more information, email:
ama@azmedia.org

Watch 2024 debates

Thank you to every Arizona voter who engaged with our debates this election season. A special thanks to Arizona media brands for using their platforms to make these the most accessible debates in the state’s history.

Miss a debate? See coverage below or visit YouTube coverage here.

2024 general election debates:

Date	4 p.m. show	6 p.m. show
Tuesday, Sept 3, 2024		Corporation Commission – Watch Replay
Thursday, Sept 5, 2024		U.S. House CD2 (1-on-1 with Jonathan Nez) – Watch Replay
Thursday, Sept 12, 2024	Maricopa County Recorder (1-on-1 with Tim Stringham) – Watch Replay	U.S. House CD5 (1-on-1 with Katrina Schaffner) – Watch Replay
Thursday, Sept 19, 2024		Issues: Immigration Enforcement (Prop 314) – Watch Replay
Tuesday, Sept 24, 2024	U.S. House CD7 (1-on-1 with Daniel Butierez) – Watch Replay	U.S. House CD8 (1-on-1 with Greg Whitten) – Watch Replay
Wednesday, Sept 25, 2024	U.S. House CD9 (1-on-1 with Quacy Smith) – Watch Replay	Maricopa County Sheriff – Watch Replay
Thursday, Sept 26, 2024	Issues: Judicial Retention – Watch Replay	Issues: Partisan Primaries – Watch Replay
Monday, Sept 30, 2024	U.S. House CD3 (1-on-1 with Jeff Zink) – Watch Replay	U.S. House CD4 (1-on-1 with Kelly Cooper) – Watch Replay
Tuesday, Oct 8, 2024		6pm: U.S. House CD1 (1-on-1 with Amish Shah) – Watch Replay 7pm: U.S. House CD6 – Watch Replay
Wednesday, Oct 9, 2024		U.S. Senate – Watch Replay

Meet our general election debate moderators

2024 primary debates:

Agenda View	4 p.m. show	6 p.m. show
Wednesday, May 15, 2024		U.S. House CD1 (D) – Watch Replay
Wednesday, May 22, 2024	U.S. House CD3 (R) – Watch Replay	U.S. House CD3 (D) – Watch Replay
Wednesday, May 29, 2024		U.S. House CD4 (R) – Watch Replay
Tuesday, June 4, 2024		U.S. House CD1 (R) – Watch Replay
Wednesday, June 5, 2024	Maricopa County Attorney (R) – Watch Replay	U.S. House CD6 (R) – Watch Replay
Monday, June 24, 2024	Maricopa County Recorder (R) – Watch Replay	U.S. House CD2 (R) – Watch Replay
Tuesday, June 25, 2024	Maricopa County Sheriff (D) – Watch Replay	U.S. House CD8 (R) – Watch Replay
Wednesday, June 26, 2024	Maricopa County Sheriff (R) – Watch Replay	U.S. Senate (R) – Watch Replay

Meet our primary debate moderators

More about the format and rules of each debate

Leveraging a highly transparent and inclusive process, every 2024 debate has been planned as a collaboration that includes the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission, BitFire Studios and the RIESTER ad agency in addition to the Arizona Media Association coalition of more than 300 local radio, TV, print and digital partners. The debate structure and moderator selection process has been built in partnership with news leaders from media operations around Arizona.

Most debates follow a traditional 60-minute format with candidates standing at lecterns. Candidates have two minutes for an opening statement and one minute for a closing statement. After opening statements, questions are posed to each candidate by the moderators. Only the candidate asked to answer long-form questions will have their microphone open, but all mics are open at other times to allow for rebuttals/interaction.

The Arizona Media Association is providing these debates to every local media brand. There is no exclusivity and no cost for media to participate. These debates are a public service and our distribution plan is to connect political candidates directly with Arizona voters. For local media brands not already participating in the debates, email ama@azmedia.org to get involved.