Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin posted on X that Biden was turning his back on the people of his state and the country, when he decided not to debate Trump in Virginia.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin called President Biden out for refusing to participate in a debate originally scheduled by the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates for Oct. 1 at Virginia State University , which would have been the first historically Black college or university to host a presidential debate.
But alongside Biden’s announcement to take part in the debates came a letter from his campaign to the CPD, which revealed a few critical limits that Biden’s team was placing on any debate between him and Trump. The list included restrictions like not having an audience, and conducting the debate in a TV studio with just the candidates and the moderator. The proposal was initially outlined by the Biden-Harris campaign in a letter to the CPD on Wednesday morning.
Trump told Fox News Digital on Wednesday, 'it is time for a debate to take place — even if it has to be held through the offices of the Commission on Presidential Debates, which are totally controlled by Democrats and who, as people remember, got caught cheating with me with debate sound levels.' In November, the CPD set the sites and dates for three presidential debates and one vice presidential debate during the 2024 general election. The presidential debates were to take place Sept.
After learning the presidential debates would not take place at VSU, but instead at CNN and ABC, VSU released a statement. 'Virginia State University is disappointed to hear media reports suggesting that the U.S. Presidential candidates may not participate in the scheduled October 1, 2024, debate at VSU,' the statement read. 'A presidential debate at VSU is a huge win, not only for our students and campus community but for the greater community in general.
The Biden and Trump campaigns did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. Fox News Digital’s Anders Hagstrom, Brooke Singman and Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.
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