The candidates vying to represent the Bay State in the U.S. Senate will meet for a pair of debates this week, ahead of an election that polling shows heavily favors the incumbent Democratic senator.

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the Commonwealth’s senior upper-chamber lawmaker, will meet Republican challenger John Deaton on Tuesday in Boston and on Thursday in Springfield for debates hosted by local television stations.

Tuesday’s debate will be hosted by local CBS affiliate WBZ-TV and the Boston Globe and moderated by veteran political reporter Jon Keller along with the Globe’s Victoria McGrane. It will air live starting at 8:30 p.m. and run for an hour.

According to CBS it can be viewed on cable channel 38, on any CBS streaming service including Paramount+, and will be available to watch after broadcast on CBS News Boston’s YouTube page.

Thursday’s debate will be hosted by New England Public Media and GBH News. NEPM reporter Adam Frenier and GBH News reporters Adam Reilly and Saraya Wintersmith will moderate that one-hour meeting, which will be broadcast live starting at 7 p.m.

The second debate will be shown on NEPM-TV and aired on GBH radio at 89.7 FM, NEPM radio at 88.5 FM, and the Cape and Islands Radio at 90.1 FM.

Warren, a former constitutional law professor, is seeking a third term representing the Bay State. Deaton, a political newcomer, is a retired military prosecutor who moved to the Bay State from Rhode Island earlier this year, but is originally from Detroit, Michigan. Deaton announced his intention to run against Warren in February.

According to the most recent polling conducted by Suffolk University and The Boston Globe, Warren leads Deaton among likely voters 59% to 35% with 6% of those polled still undecided.

“At 60%, Warren’s job approval tops every other major candidate among voters polled,” pollsters wrote.

If Deaton manages to outperform the polls and pull off a come-from-behind victory, it would certainly be historic. No Republican has managed to unseat an incumbent Massachusetts senator in the last century.