The first could be as soon as June….
The traditional media debates by Commission on Presidential Debates late in the campaign seem to have been set aside by both Biden and Trump….
One would assume Biden & Co. want to get Trump ‘on the record’ with as many voters as they can as early as they can…..
Both parties want cut out the media’s round robin cast of several questioners on the stage…..
There would be just the two main candidates ….
No one else….
YES….
It would be a good move by Joe Biden who NEEDS to get voters attention vs the Trump daily media circus…..
Both men tend to make gaffs….
But Biden is informational and has been there actually more than Trump, and Trump is just noise, but likes the stage…..
And Trump could be a convicted felon in few weeks….
Biden Won BOTH Debates prior to wining the 2020 Presidential election …
*Update...There will be NO crowd , something Trump wanted….Trump has agreed to the June 27 date…The second debate September , when early voting begins…A really VP debate is also in play….
*Update….Trump is now asking for a 3rd debate on Fox….
Trump responded minutes later saying he accepted Biden’s offer. “I am Ready and Willing to Debate Crooked Joe at the two proposed times in June and September,” he wrote on Truth Social. “I would strongly recommend more than two debates and, for excitement purposes, a very large venue, although Biden is supposedly afraid of crowds.”
“Just tell me when, I’ll be there,” he continued, before referencing a tag line from professional boxing. “’Let’s get ready to Rumble!!!”
The public announcement follows private back-channel discussions about possible meetings. The officials with the Biden and Trump campaigns have privately had informal conversations on debates in recent weeks, focused on meetings that would not involve the commission, according to two people familiar with the discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private events.
The Biden proposal, outlined in a video message and letter to the commission, called for direct negotiations between the Trump and Biden campaigns over the rules, moderators and network hosts for the one-on-one encounters. He proposed a separate vice-presidential debate in July, after the Republican nominating convention and before the Democratic nominating convention.
“Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020, and since then he hasn’t shown up for a debate. Now he is acting like he wants to debate me again. Well, make my day, pal. I’ll even do it twice,” Biden said in the video released Wednesday that referenced the weekly break in Trump’s New York criminal trial. “So let’s pick the dates, Donald. I hear you’re free on Wednesdays.”….
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The Biden proposal will be the subject of extensive negotiations between the two camps over the coming weeks, with Biden advisers now expecting proposals to come in from networks. Biden’s team has requested that only broadcast networks that hosted Republican primary debates in 2016 and Democratic primary debates in 2020 be eligible to host the first debate. Only four networks — CNN, ABC News, Telemundo and CBS News — hosted debates for both parties during those cycles.
Biden proposed that the moderator should be selected by the broadcast host from its “regular personnel,” with firm time limits for answers, equal speaking time, alternative turns to speak and microphones that are active only during each candidate’s turn. The first debate would take place after the June 15 conclusion of the Group of Seven summit in Italy and the conclusion of Trump’s criminal trial in New York. The September debate would take place before the start of early voting….
*NOTE….
The Supreme’s should be handing down the Trump immunity call around the SAME TIME….
The first debate will be on CNN a second one on ABC…..
image…President Donald Trump and Joe Biden debate in November 2020 in Nashville (composite image). (Jabin Botsford for The Washington Post)
RFK Jr. Slams Debate Exclusion
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unleashed fury over being left out of the debate conversation after former President Trump agreed to go up against President Biden on stage,” The Hill reports.
Said Kennedy: “Presidents Trump and Biden are colluding to lock America into a head-to-head match-up that 70% say they do not want. They are trying to exclude me from their debate because they are afraid I would win.”
He added: “Keeping viable candidates off the debate stage undermines democracy.”
Question online ALREADY is ‘will Trump actually show up?’