Utah will face five competitors to host the 2020 presidential debates, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced Wednesday.
It said the other applicants are: Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn.; Hartford, Conn.; Creighton University in Omaha, Neb.; the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich.; and the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
Three will be chosen for the highly watched events in the weeks leading up to the November election. In 2016, the debates between President Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were held in Hempstead, N.Y.; St. Louis, Mo; and Las Vegas. The dates and locations were announced in September 2015, almost exactly a year before the first debate.