Trump campaign calls for earlier and more presidential debates
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Former President Donald Trump’s campaign sent a letter Thursday to the Commission on Presidential Debates asking for this year’s general election debates to take place “much earlier” and calling for more of them to be added to the schedule.
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign sent a letter Thursday to the Commission on Presidential Debates asking for this year’s general election debates to take place “much earlier” and calling for more of them to be added to the schedule. “While the Commission on Presidential Debates has already announced three presidential debates and a vice-presidential debate to occur later this year, we are in favor of these debates beginning much earlier,” Trump campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita said in the letter to commission members. Wiles and LaCivita said that with voting beginning much earlier in recent elections, the commission “must move up the timetable of its proposed 2024 debates to ensure more Americans have a full chance to see the candidates before they start voting, and we would argue for adding more debates in addition to those on the currently proposed schedule.” “We have already indicated President Trump is willing to debate anytime, anyplace, and anywhere – and the time to start these debates is now,” they said. The first presidential debate is slated to take place on September 16 in San Marcos, Texas, 50 days before Election Day on November 5. That schedule would still be earlier than it has been in the recent past. In 2020, the first debate between Trump and Joe Biden took place 35 days before Election Day on September 29. In 2016, the first debate between Trump and Hillary Clinton took place on September 26 – 43 days before Election Day.
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