President Biden's offer to debate former President Trump came with significant strings attached, limiting the nature of the 2024 debates.
President Biden and former President Trump on Wednesday made their plans to officially debate, but the offer from the Biden team came with several strings attached. Trump gave Biden an open invitation to debate anytime, anywhere, and Biden rose to the challenge, telling Trump to 'make my day' in a heavily edited video on social media.
No RFK Jr. or any other 3rd-party candidate Biden's campaign says the debate must be one versus one, with no third-party candidates allowed. This is a critical demand because it excludes Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a long-shot independent candidate who has nevertheless made his presence known in polls. Not only that, but Kennedy has been shown to be more effective at leaching Democratic voters than Republican ones, making him an outsized threat to Biden.
The debates should be one-on-one, allowing voters to compare the only two candidates with any statistical chance of prevailing in the Electoral College – and not squandering debate time on candidates with no prospect of becoming President,' Biden's team wrote. Kennedy condemned the requirement in a post on X, accusing both Trump and Biden of colluding to block him from the debate stage.
This rule set limits the networks that can host a debate to CNN, ABC, CBS or Telemundo. Candidate mics must mute after time expires Biden's campaign blasted the CPD for allowing extensive crosstalk and interruptions during the 2020 debates between Trump and Biden. They now demand that both candidates' microphones be muted once their allotted speaking time expires.
Trump has accepted Biden's debate offer despite the restrictions, however, with the first encounter scheduled for June 27 to be hosted by CNN. 'I am Ready and Willing to Debate Crooked Joe at the two proposed times in June and September,' Trump posted. 'I would strongly recommend more than two debates and, for excitement purposes, a very large venue, although Biden is supposedly afraid of crowds – That’s only because he doesn’t get them. Just tell me when, I’ll be there.
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