After months of uncertainty about whether the traditional debates would be held for this occasion, Biden proposed two meetings to Trump this Wednesday ahead of the elections of November.
The video of the president of the United States for Donald Trump
“Give me a treat, friend. I’m ready to do it even twice,” declared the president in a video published on He has been on trial for a month.
Immediately, Trump responded to the challenge. “I’m ready and eager”, he replied on his Truth Social network. “Come on, ready to fight,” she added.
Where will the face-to-face between Joe Biden and Donald Trump take place?
The CNN television network announced shortly after that the first debate would be held on June 27 at its Atlanta headquarters, without an audience present in the studio. He second debate will be on September 10 and will be based on the ABC channel.
Biden avoided the three meetings proposed by the bipartisan commission of electoral debates in the United States and opted instead to offer two confrontations, in June and September, without an audience present and organized by the media.
“Donald Trump lost two debates against me in 2020. Since then, he has not been introduced to any other. He now acts like he wants to debate me again,” Biden had said in the video posted on X.
In Truth Social, the former president described Biden as “the WORST debater” which he “confronted” and after confirming his willingness to debate in “the two proposed moments”, asked for a “very large venue, although Biden is supposedly afraid of crowds.”
Joe Biden’s rejection of the three debates
The Biden campaign sent a letter to the US electoral debate commission reporting that he was rejecting his schedule for three debates between September and October. In it, hecampaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon indicated that Biden plans to participate in debates organized by television networks.
O’Malley added that the current format, the same for many years, “is not in tune with the changes in the structure of our elections and the interests of voters. “The debate should be useful to Americans to be followed on television, should not become entertainment for an audience of agitated supporters and donors,” O’Malley wrote.
He Biden team proposed first face-to-face debate in late June “after Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York is likely over and after President Biden returns from his meeting with world leaders at the G7 Summit.” The second at the beginning of September would allow us to arrive in time to influence the early votebut would not keep candidates out of the election campaign in the “critical period of late September and October.”
In his letter, O’Malley criticized the commission for being “incapable” to enforce the deadlines for each candidate’s interventions in 2020. Therefore, the Biden team laid out strict rules, such as keeping microphones off outside of the allotted time, to prevent them from talking over each other.
Source: Ambito
