US presidential election
Trump challenges Biden to the debate
“Anytime, anywhere, any place!”: Donald Trump. photo
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After his “Super Tuesday” triumphs, Republican presidential candidate Trump is demanding immediate TV duels. Biden’s team countered mockingly.
After his successes in the Republican primaries on Super Tuesday, former US President Donald Trump is in office Joe Biden challenged to debates.
“It is important for the well-being of our country that Joe Biden and I debate issues that are so important to America and the American people. That is why I call for debates ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANY PLACE!” Trump wrote the platform Truth Social, which he co-founded, only shortly after Republican Nikki Haley withdrew from the party’s internal race for the US presidential candidacy.
According to media reports, Biden’s campaign communications director, Michael Tyler, did not comment on whether Biden would debate. He indicated that this was a discussion for a later date.
No debates agreed yet
Biden and Trump had two television debates in 2020 before the election. No debates have been scheduled before this year’s election in November. Trump had been criticized for refusing to take part in televised debates with his Republican rivals for the party’s nomination for the White House. Trump, 77, has repeatedly claimed that Biden, 81, is too old and forgetful to debate him.
Now Trump wrote on Truth Social that the debates could be run by the “corrupt” Democratic Party organizing committee. He looks forward to an answer.
Tyler, on the other hand, said: “I know that Donald Trump is thirsty for attention and struggling to expand his appeal beyond the MAGA base.” But if Trump is so desperate to see President Biden on prime time, he doesn’t have to wait, he can watch Biden’s State of the Union address scheduled for Thursday.
The official address to both chambers of the US Congress traditionally gives the US President the opportunity to take stock of key policy issues and set out his future course. Maga stands for Trump’s campaign motto: “Make America Great Again”.