President Joe Biden posted a video on Wednesday asserting that he is willing to do two presidential debates, one in June and one in September.
Trump immediately accepted, despite the offer being fewer than the traditional three debates hosted by the Commission on Presidential Debates.
“Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020, and since then he hasn’t shown up for a debate. Now he is acting like he wants to debate me again. Well, make my day, pal. I’ll even do it twice,” Biden said in the video. “So let’s pick the dates, Donald. I hear you’re free on Wednesdays.”
Wednesday's are off days in Trump's New York "hush money" trial.
Trump responded in a post on Truth Social, writing, "Crooked Joe Biden is the WORST debater I have ever faced - He can’t put two sentences together!"
"Crooked is also the WORST President in the history of the United States, by far," Trump continued. "It’s time for a debate so that he can explain to the American People his highly destructive Open Border Policy, new and ridiculous EV Mandates, the allowance of Crushing Inflation, High Taxes, and his really WEAK Foreign Policy, which is allowing the World to 'Catch on Fire.'"
Trump said that he strongly recommends more than two debates and, "for excitement purposes," a "very large venue."
"I am Ready and Willing to Debate Crooked Joe at the two proposed times in June and September. I would strongly recommend more than two debates and, for excitement purposes, a very large venue, although Biden is supposedly afraid of crowds - That’s only because he doesn’t get them. Just tell me when, I’ll be there. 'Let’s get ready to Rumble!!!'"
The Washington Post reports, "Biden campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon cited the commission’s proposed schedule and past struggles to keep candidates from violating the debate rules in the letter explaining the decision."
“The Commission’s model of building huge spectacles with large audiences at great expense simply isn’t necessary or conducive to good debates,” Dillon wrote. “The debates should be conducted for the benefit of the American voters, watching on television and at home — not as entertainment for an in-person audience with raucous or disruptive partisans and donors, who consume valuable debate time with noisy spectacles of approval or jeering.”
Trump and the Republican National Committee have also expressed interest in bypassing the Commission on Presidential Debates, claiming that it is biased in favor of Democrats.
