On October 22, President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden held the final presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.
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President Joe Biden on Wednesday challenged former Donald Trump to two in-person debates ahead of the November election and laid out several conditions.
“Let me be my friend,” Biden said in a speech. video The Republican nominee is being called upon to hold two debates with him, one as early as next month and another before early voting begins in September.
Both proposed showdowns would take place without the involvement of the nonpartisan commissions that typically organize presidential debates.
Trump quickly hit back and accepted the Democratic incumbent’s challenge in a post on his “Truth Society” account.
“Just tell me when and I’ll be there,” Trump wrote. “‘Let’s get ready to go to war. Let’s get ready to go to war!!!”
The Biden campaign sent a letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates on Wednesday stating that it would not participate in the organization’s traditional debates originally scheduled for September 16, October 1, and October 9.
“These years-long presidential commission model of debates is out of sync with changes in the structure of our elections and the interests of voters,” Biden campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon wrote in the letter.
Instead, Biden proposed a debate with Trump first as early as late June, when the campaign expects Trump’s hush money trial in New York to be over and Biden to return from the G7 summit.
O’Malley Dillon wrote that the debate would exclude any other White House candidates, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “Don’t waste debate time on candidates who have no hope of becoming president.”
In a video of Biden posted on social media site He wants to argue with me again”.
“Well, cheer me up, friend. I might even do it twice. So let’s pick a date, Donald,” Biden said.
“I heard you were free on Wednesday,” the president said, referring to a day when courts are not in session for Trump’s ongoing trial.
Trump wrote in his “Truth Society” post: “Crooked Joe Biden is the worst debater I have ever seen – he can’t put two sentences together! So far, Crooked Joe… Biden is also the worst president in American history.
Trump added, “It’s time for a debate so he can explain to the American people his devastating open borders policy, his new and ridiculous electric vehicle mandate, his inflation-fighting subsidies, his high taxes. , and his truly weak foreign policy, which has set the world on fire. I am ready and willing to debate Crafty Joe at two proposed times in June and September.
“I strongly recommend having more than two debates, requiring a very large venue for excitement purposes, even though Biden is said to be afraid of crowds – that’s just because he doesn’t like crowds,” Trump wrote.
To ensure an appearance of fairness, the Biden campaign said it wanted the debate to be hosted by the same news organization that hosted the 2016 Republican primary debate with Trump and the 2020 Democratic primary debate with Biden.
The campaign added that there should be strict time limits for each candidate to answer questions and that when a candidate is not speaking, his microphone should be turned off to avoid “interruptions.”
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