Biden announces for the first time that he is willing to participate in a debate with Trump

The president of U.S, the democrat Joe Bidenannounced this Friday that he is willing to participate in a television debate with the Republican donald trumphis future rival in the November elections, which represents a change in relation to the position he has maintained until now.

It is the first time that Biden He explicitly says that he is willing to face on stage with trumpsince previously he had avoided committing to this and conditioned his participation in the debates on “behavior”From his future Republican rival.

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Biden made the announcement in response to a question from popular radio host Howard Stern during an interview on his show’The Howard Stern Show‘ in New York.

When Stern asked Biden If you participated in a debate with your predecessor before the November elections, you would respond: “I’ll do it somewhere, I don’t know when, but I’ll be happy to debate it with him.”

So far, the campaign Biden questioned the ability to trump respect the rules established in a possible debate and, until now, his campaign had not finalized any plan in this regard.

The president’s announcement comes amid great pressure from the country’s main media outlets, such as the agency The Associated Press and the CBS, CNN, Fox and ABC networks, who this same month published an open letter urging Biden It is trump participate in television debates before the elections.

Trump also called for debates on several occasions and said he was willing to participate in a face-to-face meeting with Biden “at any time and place”, despite the fact that during the Republican primaries he refused to participate in debates organized by his own party.

As soon as the announcement of Bidenone of the republican’s advisors, Chris LaCivitawrote on platform X: “Okay, let’s organize this!”

In the United States, debates are organized by the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debateswhich has already scheduled three presidential debates for September and October in Texas, Virginia and Utah.

Source: Elcomercio

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