WASHINGTON D.C. (WSAU) – Former President Trump and President Biden will indeed debate each other on CNN after the sides reached an agreement on guidelines.
The New York Post reports that the debate will take place at CNN’s Atlanta offices on Thursday, June 27, at 8 p.m. CST. There will be no live audience, and microphones will be automatically cut off when the other is speaking, as requested by the Biden campaign. Moderators will be announced later, and both sides also agreed to an offer from ABC News to hold a second debate on Tuesday, Sept. 10.
Biden announced in a video on X, “Over to you, Donald. As you said, anywhere, any time, any place,” which was criticized by the former President, who said, “In a super short 14-second video, the Biden campaign needed to do five jump cuts because Crooked Joe couldn’t deliver a clean reading. Total disaster.”
Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020. Since then, he hasn’t shown up for a debate.
Now he’s acting like he wants to debate me again.
Well, make my day, pal. pic.twitter.com/AkPmvs2q4u
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 15, 2024
Trump later took aim at the President again in a post on Truth Social, saying, “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.”
Independent candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. will be excluded from the debates, which he responded to in an X post of his own saying, “Presidents Trump and Biden are colluding to lock America into a head-to-head match-up that 70% say they do not want,” and continued by saying, “Keeping viable candidates off the debate stage undermines democracy. Forty-three percent of Americans identify as independents.”
Recent polling from the Morning Consult shows Trump ahead of Biden nationally in recent weeks with an estimated one-to-two point lead over Biden, and the former President is leading Biden in important swing states in the latest New York Times/Siena poll, which shows Trump up by 14- points over Biden in Nevada, up six points over Biden in Arizona, up three points over Biden in Pennsylvania, and up nine points over Biden in Georgia. The New York Times also noted that gaps are mainly due to differences in approval ratings, with 46% saying they approved of Trump’s presidency compared to just 38% saying the same for Biden.
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