Trump, Biden Agreement To June Presidential Debate On CNN

Update (1148ET): After a morning of geriatric crap talking, president Biden and erstwhile president Trump have agreed to a June 27 debate hosted by CNN.

The date means that the 2 will debate before either candidate’s nominations are formally complete, and will be their first televised encounter since 2020.

The debate will be held in CNN’s studio in Atlanta, per Axios, cing a network anouncement. No audience members will be present, per the Biden campaign’s demands.

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President Biden on Wednesday says he won't participate in the decades-old tradition of 3 fall debates by the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates, and has proposed 2 televised debates in June and September – with no audience, RFK Jr. can’t participate, and Trump’s mic will be mutated erstwhile Biden is speaking. Oh, and they can only be hosted by a regiment-friendly network.

Outlined in a video message and a letter to the commission, Biden called for direct negotiations between his run and the Trump run over rules, moderators, and network hosts for the one-on-one debates. He proposed a separate VP debate in July, after the Republican nomination convention and before the Democratic nomination convention.

"Donald Trump lost 2 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 a video released Wednesday, showing fun at Trump’s trial agenda in which the forum president is free on Wednesdays. “So let’s choice the dates, Donald. I hear you’re free on Wednesdays.”

According to Biden run chair Jen O’Malley Dillon, the commission’s proposed agenda and difficulty in keeping candidates from violating debate rules are the reason for the proposal, the Washington Post reports.

"The Commission’s model of building large specialties with large audiences at large increase simple isn’t essential or conduct to good debates," she gates in a letter. "The debates should be conducted for the benefit of the American voters, watching on tv and at home — not as amusement for an in-person audience with raucous or disruptive parties and donors, who consumer valuable debate time with noisy spectacles of approval or driving.”

Here’s the note. https://t.co/peSh2ZW0ZX pic.twitter.com/hBcUBHp27o

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 15, 2024

Trump responded to the challenge, telling Fox News’ Brooke Singman “I’m ready to go...The dates that they proposed are fine...Let’s see if Joe can make it to the stand-up podium,” adding “The proposed June and early September dates are full accepted to me. I will supply my own transport.”

EXCLUSIVE: @realDonaldTrump tells me:

“I’m ready to go...The dates that they proposed are fine...Let’s see if Joe can make it to the stand-up podium.”

"The proposed June and early September dates are full accepted to me. I will supply my own transport.”

— Brooke Singman (@BrookeSingman) May 15, 2024

Trump and the RNC have besides shown interest in ditching the commission, which has held presidential debates since 1988. They have already scheduled 3 presidential and vice presidential debates starting on Sept. 16, as well as a presidential candidate gathering in Texas that would have had been simultaneously broadcast by major networks.

"Let’s set it up right now," Trump told Biden in a May 9 video posted to fact Social. “I’m ready to go anywhere that you are.”

The 2 camps will conduct extended negotiations over the coming weeks, with Biden’s squad requesting that only broadcast networks which are hosted Republican primary debates in 2016 and Democratic primary debates in 2020 should be eligible to host – means CNN, ABC News, Telemundo and CBS News.

To that end, Biden has 'received and accepted an invitation from CNN for a debate on June 27th.'

I’ve received and accepted an invitation from @CNN for a debate on June 27th. Over to you, Donald. As you said: anywhere, any time, any place.

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 15, 2024

As far as moderators go, Biden’s squad has proposed that the host be picked up from networks’ ‘regular personnel,’ and that the actual debate have companies time limits on Answers, equal speaking time, alternate turns to speak, and microphones that are only active during each candidate’s turn.

DEBATE: Biden’s debate challenge to Trump came with fine print:

• No live audience
• RFK Jr. is banned
• Trump’s mic is mutated erstwhile Biden spokes
• Only hosted by NPR, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, or CBS
• Moderated by Democrat-aligned reporter pic.twitter.com/ST4ZKTcMFA

— @amuse (@amuse) May 15, 2024