CNN is set to host the next debate in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, just days ahead of the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses on Monday. The debate, the first of two that will be hosted by ...

Former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., declined CNN's invitation to hold a debate between herself and her GOP rival, Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, for the commonwealth's gubernatorial race.

Sears, the Republican nominee for governor, formally accepted CNN’s invitation on Wednesday to participate in a fall debate.