{"id":2218639,"date":"2024-04-11T16:14:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T20:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-campaign-says-it-wants-earlier-and-more-debates-with-biden\/"},"modified":"2024-04-11T16:15:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T20:15:31","slug":"trump-campaign-says-it-wants-earlier-and-more-debates-with-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-campaign-says-it-wants-earlier-and-more-debates-with-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s campaign pushes for additional early debates with Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-campaign-says-it-wants-earlier-and-more-debates-with-biden%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2218639&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Trump campaign called for more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gun-makers-go-south\/\" title=\"Gun Makers Go South\">early debates<\/a> with Biden, stating\u200b Trump&#8217;s readiness to debate anywhere. Despite the scheduled debates by \u2064the Commission on Presidential Debates, the campaign \u200cdesires additional debates. Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita asked\u2064 for earlier debates \u200cin a letter to the \u2062Commission. The\u2063 Trump campaign requested additional \u2064early debates with Biden, highlighting Trump&#8217;s willingness to debate anywhere. Despite the scheduled debates \u2064by the Commission on Presidential Debates, \u200bthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stacey-abrams-campaign-scrambles-to-do-damage-control-following-maskless-image-with-children\/\" title=\"Stacey Abrams Campaign Scrambles To Do Damage Control Following Maskless Image With Children\">campaign seeks<\/a> more debates. Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita emphasized the need for earlier debates in a formal letter to the Commission.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign on Thursday demanded debates be held earlier and more often this year, saying Trump is willing to debate President Joe Biden &#8220;anytime, anyplace, and anywhere.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;While the Commission on Presidential Debates has already announced three presidential debates and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcenany-rips-tapper-after-he-implies-shes-appealing-to-conspiracists\/\" title=\"McEnany Rips Tapper After He Implies She\u2019s Appealing To Conspiracists\">vice-presidential debate<\/a> to occur later this year, we are in favor of these debates beginning much earlier,&#8221; Trump\u2019s campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita wrote in a Thursday letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-campaign-debates-biden-much-earlier-more-often\"><span>according<\/span><\/a><span>  to Fox News. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The letter noted the debates being pushed earlier would &#8220;ensure more Americans have a full chance to see the candidates before they start voting,&#8221; referencing the fact that millions of Americans in 2020 had already cast their ballots before the first debate. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;By the date of the first proposed debate, September 16, 2024, over 1 million Americans will have likely voted,&#8221; the letter continued. &#8220;By the date of the second proposed debate, October 1, 2024, the number of Americans who will have likely cast a ballot will be over 3 million, an increase of 225 percent.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Trump campaign also asked the debate commission to schedule additional debates between Trump and Biden. &#8220;Former President Abraham Lincoln and former U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas held seven debates in their storied 1858 U.S. Senate battle in Illinois,&#8221; Wiles and LaCivita wrote. &#8220;Certainly today\u2019s America deserves as much.&#8221;<\/span>\t<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;We have already indicated President Trump is willing to debate anytime, anyplace, and anywhere\u2014and the time to start these debates is now,&#8221; the letter said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Biden has not yet committed to debating Trump. When asked last month whether he would debate the former president, Biden <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/4519792-biden-doesnt-rule-out-debating-trump-general-election-2024\/\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span>, &#8220;It depends on his behavior.&#8221; The incumbent also <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/4449505-biden-trump-debate-response\/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CIf%20I%20were%20him%2C%20I,on%20Monday%2C%20he%20visited%20No.\"><span>dismissed<\/span><\/a><span>  calls in February for debates with Trump, saying the former president &#8220;has got nothing else to do&#8221; and that &#8220;if I were him, I would want to debate me, too.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump campaign urges for earlier and more frequent debates this year. They express Trump&#8217;s readiness to debate Biden at any time and place. 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