Politics & Government

Watch Virginia Governor Candidates Debate Live Thursday Night from Blacksburg

Debate begins at 7 p.m.

Less than two weeks before Election Day, Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe and Republican candidate Ken Cuccinelli will meet debate the issues Thursday night in Blacksburg at Virginia Tech University.

Northern Virginians can tune in and watch the debate live at 7 p.m. on NewsChannel 8, an affiliate of ABC-News. It will also be streamed online here.

Virginia Tech and WDBJ7-TV will host the last Virginia gubernatorial debate between McAuliffe, former head of the DNC, and Cuccinelli, attorney general of Virginia, in Virginia Tech's Haymarket Theater at Squires Student Center on campus.

WDBJ7 news anchor Jean Jadhon will moderate the one-hour televised debate. WDBJ7 political analysts Bob Denton, the W. Thomas Rice Chair and professor of communication at Virginia Tech, and Roanoke College professor Harry Wilson will be the two panelists presenting questions to the candidates.

WDBJ7 news anchor Chris Hurst will contribute questions from an online audience.

A third candidate, Libertarian Robert Sarvis, will not be participating. He had hoped to debate but apparently did not meet a threshold proposed by the organizers.

What question would you ask at tonight's debate? 

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