The University cited the Covid-19 pandemic as the reason for withdrawing.
The University of Notre Dame announced Monday that it had withdrawn as the host site for the first head-to-head presidential debate between President Trump and his presumed Democratic rival, former Vice President Joe Biden. “The necessary health precautions would have greatly diminished the educational value of hosting the debate on our campus,” said the Rev. John I. Jenkins, the university’s president. In a letter to the Notre Dame community, Rev. Jenkins said that «the inevitable reduction in student attendance in the debate hall, volunteer opportunities and ancillary educational events undermined the primary benefit of hosting — to provide our students with a meaningful opportunity to engage in the American political process.
