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It has been one of the more dramatic US presidential election years in living memory. Billed as a battle for the soul of America and the future of democracy, it has been marked by an assassination attempt on Republican nominee Donald Trump and a late exit by Democratic incumbent Joe Biden, who named Vice President Kamala Harris as his chosen successor.  

Join moderator Justin Webb, the BBC's first North America Editor, and host of the Today Programme on Radio Four, for a debate between representatives of Democrats Abroad UK and Republican Overseas with a chance to ask your own questions about who is best placed to lead the United States over the next four years.

Doors and Bar open at 18.00. If you’re attending in person, please arrive no later than 15 minutes before the start of this event.

Half price tickets available for Members, Students, Under 26 and other concession groups

Justin Webb is the longest serving presenter on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. He spent eight years on the other side of Atlantic and witnessed some of the most powerful events in US history - the attacks of 9/11 and the election of Barack Obama. He joined the BBC as a graduate trainee in 1984 working in Northern Ireland for BBC Radio Ulster based in Belfast and went on to work on the Today programme, as a foreign affairs correspondent based in London covering news around the world, as the BBC's Europe correspondent based in Brussels before being posted to Washington as the chief radio correspondent in 2001.Alongside Today, Justin also presents the podcast Americast.





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