Hours after Joe Biden and Donald Trump‘s campaigns swiftly finalized plans for 2 presidential debates, the president’s group is already warning that his rival is “taking part in video games.”
“No extra chaos, no extra debate about debates,” Biden marketing campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon mentioned in a press release this afternoon.
It got here after Trump posted on Fact Social that he had agreed to a different debate, past the 2, that will be hosted by Fox Information on Oct. 2 and moderated by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum.
Earlier at this time, each campaigns mentioned that that they had agreed to take part in a June 27 debate hosted by CNN and a September 10 debate hosted by ABC Information. Biden launched a video this morning difficult Trump to 2 debates, a lot earlier within the election 12 months schedule than have historically been held.
“President Biden made his phrases clear for 2 one-on-one debates, and Donald Trump accepted these phrases,” O’Malley Dillon mentioned within the assertion.
The Biden marketing campaign additionally mentioned that the talk host needs to be a community that had sponsored a 2016 Republican major debate and a 2020 Democratic major debate, phrases that exclude networks like MSNBC and Fox Information.
As O’Malley Dillon famous, Trump has an extended historical past of complaining in regards to the debates. He skipped all the Republican major debates this cycle, and even referred to as for them to be canceled. In 2020, he complained of the selection of moderators and backed out of one of many second common election debates when the format was modified to an all-virtual occasion. On the time, Trump was recovering from Covid. In 2016, he claimed blamed audio issues on a faulty mike and instructed that the host of the talk, the Fee on Presidential Debates, did it on goal.