Presidential Debate 2024 Transcript Download. President joe biden and former president donald trump participated in their first debate of the 2024 election season on cnn in atlanta thursday. President trump came off better, it seems, although he repeatedly ducked when asked to answer voters' concerns growing out of his efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat.

Read the final, corrected transcript of the. [21:00:29] jake tapper, cnn host:.