{"id":636453,"date":"2026-10-20T16:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T16:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/636453\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T16:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T16:28:16","slug":"election-2026-as-it-happened-20-oct-luxon-and-hipkins-face-off-in-final-leaders-debate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/636453\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2026 as it happened 20 Oct: Luxon and Hipkins face off in final leaders&#8217; debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">The two leaders faced off in the final leader&#8217;s debate this evening, after another busy day out on the campaign trail, including two new polls that have Parliament on knife-edge, with the Opportunity party narrowly making it in as kingmaker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">See how all the day&#8217;s events unfolded with RNZ&#8217;s live blog:<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Follow our daily live coverage of all the happening on the 2026 election campaign trail. We&#8217;ll have updates, breaking news and analysis from Political Editor Jo Moir, Deputy Editor Craig McCulloch and their team through to election day on 7 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The two leaders faced off in the final leader&#8217;s debate this evening, after another busy day out on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-636453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}