1h ago
18:07
There’s more on the second presidential debate ...
The Biden campaign just put out a statement.
Kate
Bedingfield, Biden’s deputy campaign manager and communications director, said:
Donald Trump doesn’t make the debate schedule;
the Debate Commission does. We accepted the three dates — Sept. 29, Oct. 15,
and Oct. 22 — in June. Trump chose today to pull out of the October 15th
debate. Trump’s erratic behavior does not allow him to rewrite the calendar,
and pick new dates of his choosing. We look forward to participating in the
final debate, scheduled for October 22, which already is tied for the latest
debate date in 40 years. Donald Trump can show up, or he can decline again.
That’s his choice.”
1h ago
17:47
Time for a recap on what has happened today with the
second presidential debate, which was originally scheduled to take place in
Miami on 15 October.
The
Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) announced this morning the debate
would be conducted virtually.
Almost
immediately after, Donald Trump said in an interview with Fox Business: “I’m
not gonna waste my time on a virtual debate.”
At first
Joe Biden – and senior Trump economic advisor Larry Kudlow – suggested Trump
might change his mind about the virtual debate.
A couple
hours later, the Biden campaign called for the debate to be moved back a week
to 22 Oct and said it would host its own town hall event on 15 Oct.
A little
less than an hour after that, the Trump campaign said it also thought the
debate should be moved to 22 Oct. Despite their agreement with the Biden
campaign, the announcement was made in a paragraph of sensationalized
statements including: “The CPD and the media cannot hide Joe Biden forever.”
Shortly
after, the Biden campaign issued a statement challenging the Trump campaign’s
request to *also* move the 22 Oct debate to 29 Oct
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