LOS ANGELES — Free viewing parties for the lone debate between vice presidential candidates JD Vance and Tim Walz will be held Tuesday throughout Los Angeles County, organized by Democratic, Republican and nonpartisan organizations.

What You Need To Know

  • Democratic, Republican and nonpartisan organizations will host free vice presidential debate viewing parties throughout Los Angeles

  • The 90-minute debate from the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City is set to begin at 6 p.m. 

  • Vance won the virtual coin toss and chose to make the final closing statement

The watch party at the Westside Democratic Headquarters at 1241 Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica will begin at 5 p.m.

Parties organized by various Republican organizations will begin at 5 p.m. at Busby's West in Santa Monica and Tony P's Dockside Grill in Marina Del Rey, and at 5:30 p.m. at Craft by Smoke and Fire in Pasadena.

Nonpartisan viewing parties will begin at 5 p.m. at The Continental Club in downtown Los Angeles and the Hammer Museum in Westwood.

The 90-minute debate from the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City is set to begin at 6 p.m. It will be moderated by Norah O'Donnell, the anchor of the "CBS Evening News," and Margaret Brennan, moderator of "Face the Nation."

The debate will be simulcast by ABC, CBS, NBC, Univision, CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, Fox Business Network, the Public Broadcasting Service, KTLA-TV Channel 5, KTTV-TV Channel 11 and other television and radio outlets.

Vance won the virtual coin toss and chose to make the final closing statement.

Walz selected the right podium position on screen, stage left.

O'Donnell and Brennan will be the only people asking questions.

Props or prewritten notes are not allowed onstage. No topics or questions will be shared in advance with campaigns or candidates. Candidates will be given a pen, a pad and a bottle of water.

For each question, the candidate who is asked the question will get two minutes to answer and the other candidate will get two minutes to respond. Then, each candidate gets one minute for further rebuttals. At the discretion of the moderators, candidates may get an additional minute each to continue a discussion.

Moderators will seek to enforce timing agreements.

CBS News reserves the right to turn off candidate microphones.

Campaign staff may not interact with candidates during the two four-minute commercial breaks.

Moderators will seek to enforce timing agreements.

There will be no audience.