Here Are All the Ways to Watch CBS News’ Vice Presidential Debate

The latest—and, for now, final debate—of the 2024 presidential election cycle takes place on Tuesday hosted by CBS News.

The vice presidential candidates Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. J.D. Vance—respective running mates of Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump—will face off in New York City as the sprint towards Election Day enters its final month.

CBS News will carry the 90-minute debate live starting at 9 p.m. ET. Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan will serve as moderators, and the network has already indicated that any fact-checking will be left up to the participants. That’s been widely seen as a reaction to the GOP-led criticism the ABC News team of David Muir and Linsey Davis received for fact-checking Trump during the debate.

As with the two previous presidential debates, the vice presidential debate will be simulcast by nearly all news outlets. Here are all the ways you can watch or stream the event. (All times ET.)

ABC News

• David Muir leads network coverage with the pre-debate program Race to the White House at 8 p.m. airing on ABC and streaming on ABC News Live, Disney+, and Hulu. He’ll also anchor the post-debate show on those same platforms.
• Joining Muir will be Linsey Davis, Martha Raddatz, Jonathan Karl, Mary Bruce, Rachel Scott, Eva Pilgrim, Pierre Thomas, Matt Gutman, Ian Pannell, Terry Moran, Mireya Villarreal, Elizabeth Schulze, and Washington, D.C., bureau chief Rick Klein.
• Contributors providing analysis include Donna Brazile, Chris Christie, and Reince Priebus.

BBC News

• Chief Presenters Caitríona Perry in New York and Sumi Somaskanda in Washington, D.C. will anchor coverage before and after the debate. Viewers can watch on the BBC News Channel or via livestream on BBC.com, the BBC app, and FAST/CTV platforms.

CNN

• Debate Night in America starts with a special edition of The Lead at 4 p.m. anchored Jake Tapper. Anderson Cooper and his political panel will join coverage at 8 p.m. from CNN’s New York studios, while Tapper and his panel will be live from the spin room.  
• Debate Night in America’s post-debate analysis begins after the debate concludes, with Cooper and Tapper once again leading special live coverage. 
• The debate itself will be simulcast on CNN, CNN International, CNN en Español, CNN Max, CNN.co,  and on CNN apps.

C-SPAN

• Coverage will begin at 8 p.m., with viewer calls and social media reactions provided before and after the debate. Simulcast debate coverage will be available on C-SPAN, C-SPAN Radio, C-SPAN.org, and on the C-SPAN Now app.

Fox News

• Special coverage will begin at 8 p.m. with debate preview analysis from Jesse Watters Primetime until 8:20 p.m. Fox News Democracy 2024 will follow live from New York with Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum featuring Watters, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Dana Perino, Brit Hume, Harold Ford, Jr., Jessica Tarlov and Kellyanne Conway. 
• Congressional correspondent Aishah Hasnie and senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich will report live from the spin room.
• Hannity will host the 11 p.m. hour live from the spin room post-debate and Trace Gallagher will anchor Fox News @ Night starting at midnight. 

Fox Business

• The business network will simulcast FNC’s Democracy 2024 programming starting at 9 p.m.

Fox Network

• Shannon Bream will anchor simulcast coverage on the Fox broadcast network, joined by FNC contributors Marc Thiessen and Juan Williams.

NBC News

• Extensive special coverage will be available on NBC and NBC News Now beginning at 8 p.m., with Lester Holt and Savannah Guthrie leading a pre-debate primetime special.
• Holt and Guthrie will continue special coverage following the debate until 11 p.m.
• Tom Llamas and Hallie Jackson, alongside Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker, will lead an hour-long post-debate special on NBC News Now at 11 p.m. 

MSNBC

• Rachel Maddow will lead MSNBC’s special pre-debate coverage starting at 7 p.m., joined by Nicolle Wallace, Joy Reid, Ari Melber, Chris Hayes, Lawrence O’Donnell, Stephanie Ruhle, and Jen Psaki. Alex Wagner will join live coverage from the spin room at the debate.
• Following the debate, Maddow will continue MSNBC’s special coverage, joined by Wallace, Reid, Melber, Hayes, O’Donnell, Ruhle, and Jen Psaki, with Wagner reporting from the spin room.
• The Weekend co-hosts Michael Steele, Symone Sanders-Townsend, and Alicia Menendez will pick up special coverage from midnight until 2 a.m., joined by special guests throughout.

NewsNation

• At 7 p.m., Leland Vittert will anchor a special live hour of On Balance from New York City, followed by a live pre-debate show with host Chris Cuomo at 8 p.m.
• Following the debate, Elizabeth Vargas, Dan Abrams and Cuomo will co-anchor live coverage from 10:30 p.m.-12 a.m.

Spectrum News

• Coverage of the CBS vice presidential debate will begin at 8:45 p.m. Immediately following the debate, Spectrum News will provide special coverage and analysis hosted by Spectrum News NY1 political anchor Errol Louis, who will be joined by Josh Robin, Taylor Popielarz, Cassie Semyon, Holly Gregory, Tim Boyum, and Jason Fechner.