The president of the United States, Joe Biden, rejected this Friday two other debate proposals with the presumptive Republican candidate, former President Donald Trump, which were going to be additional to the two that were already confirmed this week.
“The debate about debates is over, no more games,” said a member of the Democrat's campaign today, according to NBC News, which was going to organize, together with the Hispanic network Telemundo, one of the two debates not taken into account by Biden.
“The debate about debates is over, no more games,” said a member of the Democrat's campaign today, according to NBC News, which was going to organize, together with the Hispanic network Telemundo, one of the two debates not taken into account by Biden.
The other invitation that has not been responded to by Biden was made by the conservative Fox News network in conjunction with Virginia State University, a historic center of studies with a majority African-American majority.
In this way, at the moment only two debates between the two candidates remain confirmed, the first of them organized by CNN and which will be held on June 27 in the studios of this channel, in Atlanta (Georgia).
The second will be done by the ABC News television network on September 10, at a location and time yet to be defined.
“It is important as Republicans that we win with our Great Hispanic Community,” said the former president in a message published this Friday on his social network Truth, in which he confirmed that he had accepted the invitation from NBC News and Telemundo.
Confirmation of the two debates that were closed by both campaigns came last Wednesday, a few hours after Biden proposed, via video, to Trump two televised debates face to face and without an audience in June and September.
The former president, who has been urging Biden to debate with him for weeks, quickly accepted the proposal, and also pushed to hold two more in the months of July and September.
This format breaks with the tradition that has existed since 1960 of holding face-to-face debates a few weeks before the elections, normally at the end of September and October.
Trump insisted on holding an early debate, before the states that allow early voting many weeks before the elections began to vote.