Dates of US presidential debates set for 2016

Organizers announced four US universities as hosts of the debates -- three presidential and one vice presidential -- in the 2016 election cycle, beginning with the first Democratic-Republican encounter on September 26 next year. According to the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), the debut event will take place at Wright State University in Dayton, in the crucial political battleground of Ohio, perhaps the ultimate US swing state. Eight days later, the vice presidential candidates will sq