Trump Team Calls For More Debates With Biden, ‘Much Earlier’ Than Currently Planned | EUROtoday

Former President Donald Trump needs to face off with President Joe Biden on the controversy stage “much earlier,” and extra occasions than at the moment deliberate, his marketing campaign mentioned Thursday.

In a letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates, which sponsors and produces the occasions, Trump’s co-campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita argued the present schedule isn’t ok, noting that a million Americans can have already forged their ballots by the point of the primary debate scheduled to happen on Sept. 16.

“Americans were robbed of a true and robust debate in 2020,” they wrote. “There were only two debates, and they happened much too late in the election calendar despite voting timelines having moved up exponentially.”

The fee has proposed a complete of three debates this cycle between Trump and Biden with the ultimate two set to happen on Oct. 1 and Oct. 9 respectively.

However, Trump’s group needs extra, citing the instance of the 1858 U.S. Senate battle in Illinois, the place former President Abraham Lincoln and former Sen. Stephen A. Douglas debated one another seven occasions.

“The Commission must move up the timetable of its proposed 2024 debates to ensure more Americans have a full chance to see the candidates before they start voting, and we would argue for adding more debates in addition to those on the currently proposed schedule,” Wiles and LaCivita mentioned.

“We have already indicated President Trump is willing to debate anytime, anyplace, and anywhere — and the time to start these debates is now,” they added.

Ironically, although, Trump refused to participate in any of the debates scheduled by the Republican National Committee forward of the GOP’s presidential major contests, claiming he noticed no level in sharing the stage with rivals who had been polling approach behind him.

Besides, it stays unclear if the debates will even go forward, as Biden has not dedicated to displaying up to date.

“It depends on his behavior,” he informed reporters in March in reference to Trump.

Major U.S. TV networks are reportedly planning on issuing an open letter to each Trump and Biden, calling on them “to publicly commit to participating in general election debates before November’s election,” in response to a draft of the doc reviewed by The New York Times. Trump’s group mentioned they agreed with the pending letter.

“If there is one thing Americans can agree on during this polarized time, it is that the stakes of this election are exceptionally high,” the draft letter continued.

Meanwhile, Trump’s marketing campaign accused the Commission on Presidential Debates of working to advance Biden’s candidacy within the 2020 election cycle, claiming amongst different issues, that they picked “a demonstrably anti-Trump moderator clearly positioned to aid Joe Biden” in reference to Chris Wallace, who was employed by Fox News on the time.

“Fairness in such a setting is paramount and the Commission must ensure that the 2024 Commission-sponsored debates are truly fair and conducted impartially,” Wiles and LaCivita wrote.

This isn’t the primary time that Republicans have taken situation with the nonpartisan fee that was collectively based by each events’ nationwide committees in 1987.

The RNC in 2022 voted to withdraw from the fee however then-chair Ronna McDaniel signaled GOP nominees would proceed to participate in presidential debates.