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The first debate, on June 27 on CNN, looks at the likelihood of the first general election debate in fashion history.
By Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman
President Biden and Donald J. Trump agreed to two debates, one on June 27 on CNN and September 10 on ABC News, the first on-stage showdowns between the former president and his successor in more than 3 years.
While some main points were still being debated, the agreement on the two debates, reached in a series of social media posts on Wednesday morning, increases the likelihood of the first general election debate in fashion history and led to an electric shock. that he had settled into a kind of routine.
Trump and Biden are firmly convinced that if the American people watch their opponent in a debate, they will be less likely to vote for him.
Biden opened the verbal exchange Wednesday by saying he was in a position to talk about Trump twice before the election, and as early as June, but on the condition that the deals go through the nonpartisan organization that has controlled presidential debates since 1988.
Biden and his more sensible advisers want the debates to begin well before the dates proposed by the organization, the Commission on Pre-Spectational Debates, so that the electorate can see the two candidates one by one well before early voting begins in September. Take a position in a TV studio, with microphones that automatically mute when the speaker’s time is up.
And they need it to be just the two applicants and the moderator: the noisy in-person hearings that Mr. Trump hosts and the participation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or other independent or outside applicants.
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