The president of United States, Joe Bidensaid during an interview that was willing to debate publicly with his Republican predecessor and opponent donald trumpwhom he will face in the November elections.
When the presenter Howard Stern Asked if he would participate in a public debate with Trump, the 81-year-old Democrat and candidate for a second term replied: “I will, somewhere. I don’t know when. I would be happy to do it.”
Biden’s team has not commented for months on its willingness to follow the tradition of a televised debate between candidates, usually moderated by a well-known journalist.
During the last months Trump did not want to participate in the primary debates Republicans but that did not prevent him from sweeping vote after vote. And his rivals were withdrawing from the fight.
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But Trump seems excited about debating the man who defeated him in the 2020 election. “ANY TIME, ANYWHERE, ANYWHERE”, he stated on his Truth Social network. “I propose Monday night, Tuesday night or Wednesday night, during my rally in Michigan,” she added. In the same message she suggested holding the debate “tonight, in court.” “I’ll wait!”
The Republican is on trial in New York for falsifying business records to conceal a payment to a porn actress in order to buy her silence over an alleged extramarital affair before the 2016 election.
Biden, who has called Trump a threat to democracy, told reporters last month that a possible debate with the real estate mogul “depends on his behavior.”
The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) has already set three dates and places for Trump and Biden to face each other face to face for the 2024 elections, at American universities in September and October.
But Trump criticized the CPD for considering it biased in favor of the Democrat for having planned to move a third and final debate in 2020 to a videoconference format due to the covid 19 pandemic.
Then-President Trump attended the second 2020 debate against Biden just three days before testing positive for Covid. Biden then said he would not participate in another in-person debate with him while the Republican was still ill.
