Why were the debates held so early this year? Before the conventions

I wondered why too.
No mystery. If trump had stuck with the Commission on Presidential Debates, it would have happened at the regular time, and the regular organization. trump chickened out, so that left no debates. Then trump started saying he was already the Republican nominee, which he technically was not, and that he wanted to have the debates "this weekend." Biden's team got a lot of concessions, and saw the earlier debates as a good thing, because it allowed time before early voting.
 
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