As RedState previously reported, after months of Donald Trump urging him to participate in presidential debates, President Joe Biden said on Twitter on Wednesday morning that he was challenging the former POTUS to two of them, which Biden suggested he withheld to be June and September.
“Well have a nice day buddy, I’ll even do it twice,” Biden said in a pre-recorded, heavily edited 14-second video. “So let’s pick the dates, Donald – I heard you have Wednesdays off.”
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee, eager for the opportunity, accepted the challenge, and not long after, she did announced that CNN would moderate the June debate while ABC News would moderate the September debate.
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In a tweet expressing his approval of the CNN debate, Biden, who is trailing Trump in the polls in key battleground states, said: wrote“I received and accepted an invitation from @CNN for a debate on June 27th. About you, Donald. Like you said: anywhere, anytime, anywhere.
But what shouldn’t surprise anyone is that Biden is already backing away from his “anytime, anywhere” proclamation, as evidenced by Team Biden’s refusal to entertain the idea of further debates, including one Third debate on Fox News for early October, which Trump claimed he had “accepted” in a Truth Social post (see below):
Please let this TRUTH be expressed that I hereby accept the Crooked Joe Biden debate on FoxNews. The date is Wednesday, October 2nd. The hosts will be Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum. Thanks, DJT!
Donald Trump Truth Social 12:44pm 05/15/24 pic.twitter.com/zluFeZK67n
– Posts by Donald J. Trump from his Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) May 15, 2024
Jen O’Malley Dillon, chairwoman of the Biden-Harris campaign said in response to the Trump campaign’s call for more debates and Trump’s explicit mention of the alleged Fox News debate that Biden would only stick to the terms he had already set – for two individual debates where everything would be strictly controlled:
“He said he would debate President Biden anytime, anywhere, anywhere,” O’Malley Dillon continued. “In fact, he said and posted it dozens of times with varying levels of understanding and basic grammar. President Biden has clearly stated his terms for two individual debates, and Donald Trump has accepted those terms.”
“No more games. No more chaos, no more debate after debate,” she said. “We’ll see Donald Trump in Atlanta on June 27th – when he shows up.”
While Fox News has not, as of this writing, made any public comment on Trump’s post about a possible third debate, the network obviously would not do so under the terms Biden set for his participation in the other two debates be on it the approved network list:
The Biden campaign also said the debate host should be a network that sponsored a Republican primary debate in 2016 and a Democratic primary debate in 2020. These terms exclude networks like MSNBC and Fox News.
So much for “anywhere, any time, any place”. Bluff called. That certainly didn’t take long.
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