United States: According to the letter obtained by the New York Times, President Biden is showing a willingness to debate former president Donald Trump at least twice before the election is done and also before till June.
Biden wants to debate soon
Mr. Biden and his top aides are pushing for the debates to start earlier than the dates proposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates. Having done so, the candidates can be seen face-to-face well before early voting begins in September.
This is seen as the first of its kind formal offer by Biden’s campaign for debates with Trump, who has repeatedly seen to debate his successor “anytime and anywhere.”
Mr. Biden and his aides would like the debates to begin earlier than the dates proposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates so that the voters can see the two candidates side by side before the early voting begins in September.
According to the New York Times report, they desire that the debate take place inside a TV studio, with microphones that will automatically be cut off when a speaker has used up his/her time limit, the New York Times reported.
According to them, it will be just the two candidates and the moderator, without the wild crowds that Mr. Trump loves and without the involvement of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or other independent or third-party candidates.
Suggestion for early debate by campaign chairperson
According to Jennifer O’Malley Dillon, Mr. Biden’s campaign chair said that the first debate need to be held in late June, by that time Trump’s New York criminal trial should have been completed, and it will also be the time when Biden returns from Group of 7 summit meetings with other heads of state.
Dillon said that a second presidential debate should be held “in early September at the start of the fall campaign season, early enough to influence early voting, but not so late as to require the candidates to leave the campaign trail in the critical late September and October period,” as the New York Times reported.
She added, “The commission’s failure, yet again, to schedule debates that will be meaningful to all voters, not just those who cast their ballots late in the fall or on Election Day, underscores the serious limitations of its outdated approach.”
Why push for early debates?
The majority of polls showed an overwhelming response in favor of Trump, including the surveys by The New York Times, Siena College, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The main voters believe that Trump is the best candidate choice for the president this tenure to deal with the economy, as compared to Biden. Additionally, the Biden campaign and the White House staff at the presidential residence also of the view that the debates were critical in 2020 and that they will be as important this year, too.
The Biden campaign has been reminding the voters of why the majority of the people in 2020 made to remove Mr. Trump from office. People who are in close proximity to the president have said they’re worried about so-called Trump amnesia.
Moreover, people are feeling nostalgic about Trump and that they have not forgotten how divisive he was, and some of the recent polls are underscoring it.
During the first debate in 2020, Mr. Trump almost did not allow Mr. Biden to get a word in. He was aggressive and was taking turns to talk, and he also looked sweaty and appeared sick.
Mr. Biden, being overwhelmed, famously told Mr. Trump, “Will you shut up, man? This is so unpresidential.” In the following days of that episode, Trump’s poll number kept decreasing.