There are three presidential debates and one vice presidential debate to look forward to in the coming months.
Here's a rundown of all of the information that's available to date.
First presidential debate: Sept. 26 at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York.
Moderated by: NBC's "Nightly News" anchor Lester Holt
The debate will have six segments covering different subjects that will be announced at least a week before the event, according to the Commission on Presidential Debates.
Vice presidential debate: Oct. 4 at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia.
Moderated by: CBS News correspondent Elaine Quijano
The debate will feature nine segments, each about 10 minutes long.
Second presidential debate: Oct. 9 at Washington University in St. Louis.
Moderated by: ABC News' chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz and CNN anchor Anderson Cooper
The debate will be in a town hall format, with about half the questions asked by members of the audience and the other by the moderators. Gallup is responsible for finding the audience members, who are supposed to be uncommitted voters, the commission has decided.
Third presidential debate: Oct. 19 at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.
Moderated by: "Fox News Sunday" anchor Chris Wallace
The final debate will be in the same format as the first debate.
The specific themes that will be covered in each debate have not been announced and will likely come closer to the debates.
The commission is tasked with picking the moderators for the debates, and while they normally announce their decisions in August, the final list was released in September this year.
"These journalists bring extensive experience to the job of moderating, and understand the importance of using expanded time periods effectively,” Frank J. Fahrenkopf Jr. and Michael D. McCurry, co-chairs of the non-partisan commission, said in the statement announcing the moderators.
Raddatz, who is a co-anchor of the ABC News Sunday show "This Week," is the only one of the four who has been selected by the commission before. She moderated the vice presidential debate between Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan in 2012.
The 2012 election was the first time a female journalist moderated a debate after CNN's Candy Crowley was selected for the town hall-style debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney. This year, that format will have two moderators: Raddatz and Cooper.
"The formats chosen for this year's debates are designed to build on the formats introduced in 2012, which focused big blocks of time on major domestic and foreign topics,” Fahrenkopf and McCurry said in the release. “We are grateful for their willingness to moderate, and confident that the public will learn more about the candidates and the issues as a result.”
There are several third-party candidates in the race this year, but if the decision on participation were made today, none of them would qualify to appear alongside Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
The Commission on Presidential Debates, the independent organization that sponsors the events, has decided that in order to participate, candidates must have support averaging at least 15 percent in selected national polls.
The commission this week announced it will use five surveys — ABC News/Washington Post, CBS/New York Times, CNN/Opinion Research Corp., Fox News and NBC/Wall Street Journal — to make the mid-September decision.
As of Monday, Clinton had 44 percent and Trump had 36 percent. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson had 10 percent, and Green Party candidate Jill Stein had 5 percent. Evan McMullin, the conservative independent candidate who announced his run earlier this month, has not been included in national polls.
Kellyanne Conway, Trump's new campaign manager, told CNN this morning that the Republican presidential candidate's debate prep will begin this weekend.
Trump has been in contact with former Fox News chief Roger Ailes, meeting at Trump’s Bedminster, New Jersey, home over the weekend, multiple sources told ABC News.
Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks told ABC News in a statement, "[Ailes] is not advising Mr. Trump or helping with debate prep. They are longtime friends, but he has no formal or informal role in the campaign."
This isn't the first time Ailes has been in the news this summer. He resigned July 21 as the CEO and chairman of Fox News — the company he started — in the wake of sexual harassment claims and a lawsuit by former anchor Gretchen Carlson. He has denied the claims.
He worked in politics before starting Fox News and worked on the campaigns of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
As for Clinton's debate prep, the campaign hasn't disclosed any details.
Well-known Washington lawyer Bob Barnett is said to be advising Clinton during her debate prep. He helped her prepare for the primary debates by playing Sen. Bernie Sanders.
ABC News' Liz Kreutz, John Santucci, Candace Smith and Ryan Struyk contributed to this report.
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