{"id":2245255,"date":"2024-05-15T15:41:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T19:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/confirmed-biden-and-trump-confirm-historically-early-debate-on-cnn-will-set-tone-for-campaign\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T15:43:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T19:43:33","slug":"confirmed-biden-and-trump-confirm-historically-early-debate-on-cnn-will-set-tone-for-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/confirmed-biden-and-trump-confirm-historically-early-debate-on-cnn-will-set-tone-for-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed: Biden and Trump to Debate Early on CNN &#8211; Setting Campaign Tone"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fconfirmed-biden-and-trump-confirm-historically-early-debate-on-cnn-will-set-tone-for-campaign%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=2245255&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>Summary: The Biden administration,\u2062 despite reluctance, has agreed to engage in early debates with\u200c former President\u200b Donald Trump. \u200bBoth parties have accepted \u200cterms for debates \u200cscheduled in June and September, deviating from the traditional October timing. While media bias towards Biden is evident, the debates are anticipated to be\u2063 entertaining and potentially impactful\u2064 on the election\u2063 outcome. Summary: The Biden administration has reluctantly agreed to early debates\u200c with former President Trump in\u200c June and \u2064September, departing from the usual\u2062 October schedule. Media bias favoring Biden is apparent, but the debates are expected\u200b to \u2064be engaging and could influence the election results.  <\/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<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/aanton\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/aanton\/%20\"><span>Allison Anton<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   May 15, 2024 at 11:42am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>Having exhausted all other options for boosting the geriatric president\u2019s historically awful approval numbers, the Biden adminstration has finally proposed that which they sought to avoid at all costs.<\/p>\n<p>Namely, a presidential debate.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden first issued the challenge to his opponent, former President Donald Trump, via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a> X.<\/p>\n<p>Claiming erroneously that \u201cDonald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020. Since then, he hasn\u2019t shown up for a debate. Now he\u2019s acting like he wants to debate me again. Well, make my day, pal,\u201d he concluded with a weak Clint Eastwood impression, before proposing his terms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo let\u2019s pick the dates, Donald,\u201d he continued. \u201cI hear you\u2019re free on Wednesdays,\u201d he ended, a lame joke referencing the politically motivated lawsuits against Trump.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020. Since then, he hasn\u2019t shown up for a debate.<\/p>\n<p>Now he\u2019s acting like he wants to debate me again.<\/p>\n<p>Well, make my day, pal. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AkPmvs2q4u\">pic.twitter.com\/AkPmvs2q4u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1790713878248038478?\">May 15, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump then happily accepted via a post on his own social media platform, Truth Social, telling Biden and the world, \u201cI am Ready and Willing to Debate Crooked Joe at the two proposed times in June and September\u2026 Just tell me when, I\u2019ll be there. \u201cLet\u2019s get ready to Rumble!!!\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Will CNN try to influence the debate in favor of Biden?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Later on Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/05\/15\/politics\/joe-biden-debate\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a> reported that Biden returned to X, accepting the former president\u2019s terms, saying, \u201cI\u2019ve received and accepted an invitation from @CNN for a debate on June 27th. Over to you, Donald. As you said: anywhere, any time, any place.\u201d Another post confirmed a second debate is set for Sept. 10.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I\u2019ve received and accepted an invitation from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN?\">@CNN<\/a> for a debate on June 27th. Over to you, Donald. As you said: anywhere, any time, any place.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1790747680173363660?\">May 15, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I\u2019ve also received and accepted an invitation to a debate hosted by ABC on Tuesday, September 10th.<\/p>\n<p>Trump says he\u2019ll arrange his own transportation. I\u2019ll bring my plane, too. I plan on keeping it for another four years.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1790769395846770913?\">May 15, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As CNN told its readers, the dates chosen for the presidential debates \u2014 June 27 on CNN and Sept. 10 with ABC \u2014 were historically early. Presidential debates have for decades been held in October, just weeks before the November election.<\/p>\n<p>While the Commission on Presidential Debates initially proposed the more conventional dates of Sept. 16, Oct. 1 and Oct. 9 for the debates, the Biden administration pushed back.<\/p>\n<p>Their reasons, according to CNN, were, supposedly, that those dates were \u201cout of step with changes with changes in the structure of our elections and the interests of voters,\u201d and hosted only by the networks CBS News, ABC News, CNN and Telemundo.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, the choices of venues were rather cowardly moves, as were the numerous other stipulations calculated to give <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ouch-instead-state-union-bump-biden-getting-opposite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mumbles Biden<\/a> every possible advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Those stipulations were, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-accepts-biden-offer-debate-him-june-september\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>: that the debate be one-on-one (essentially leaving Robert F. Kennedy Jr. out completely), that the debates be held inside a TV studio, that microphones automatically be cut off when a speaker goes over his time limit, and, crucially, that there would be no audience (something that has rarely happened since 1976).<\/p>\n<p>But regardless of how rigged the venues and rules for the debates seemingly will be, the fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/kamala-harris-gives-murky-response-asked-whether-biden-will-debate-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden<\/a> has agreed to any debate at all was, for many, an enormous shock.<\/p>\n<p>Biden and his team have tried every method imaginable to reduce the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bidens-top-ten-gaffes-blunders-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">octogenarian\u2019s<\/a> propensity for embarrassing himself every time he opens his mouth.<\/p>\n<p>A debate, even among friendly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/warning-for-america-the-four-steps-of-marxist-takeover-were-activated-in-2020\/\" title=\"Warning for America: The Four Steps of Marxist Takeover Were Activated in 2020\">left-wing media outlets<\/a> such as CNN and NBC, where Biden must speak unscripted and off-the-cuff, sounds like a PR nightmare for his handlers.<\/p>\n<p>Remember when, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/5-damning-joe-biden-quotes-hur-interview-not-senility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Hur\u2019s<\/a> special counsel report came out back in March, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jill-biden-unleashed-joe-room-full-white-house-staffers-disastrous-press-conference-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden<\/a> tried to hold a press conference demonstrating his mental lucidity, only to forget what church his son\u2019s funeral was held in and the\u00a0 name of the president of Mexico?<\/p>\n<p>The moderators at CNN and ABC will probably do everything in their power to slant the debate in Biden\u2019s favor, but none of them can restrain Biden from saying something stupid or incomprehensible without getting inside his head.<\/p>\n<p>But, considering how terribly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/nyt-polls-find-trump-upended-electoral-map-leads-biden-5-battleground-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden<\/a> has polled over the past few months \u2014 even being projected to lose swing states he handily won in 2020 \u2014 what other choice did Biden\u2019s campaign have?<\/p>\n<p>They even attempted some heavily edited tough talk from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bidens-g-7-trip-gets-off-bad-start-lawmaker-says-senile-wont-remember-told\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grandpa Joe<\/a> to try and make it seem as if Trump was the one hesitant to debate.<\/p>\n<p>Will the debates end up happening?<\/p>\n<p>Right now, it seems more likely than ever, with both parties finally agreeing to terms for the debate.<\/p>\n<p>Who will end up winning?<\/p>\n<p>Hard to say, with CNN and ABC heavily biased in Biden\u2019s favor. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bidens-weakness-spark-world-war-3-2024-blackwater-founder-erik-princes-prediction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden\u2019s own handicaps<\/a> might end up sabotaging him.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever happens with these debates, one thing is for sure: They should be wildly entertaining.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>An Important Message from Our Staff:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>In just a few months, the world is going to change forever. 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She calls the metro Atlanta area home, and when she\u2019s not writing, she\u2019s creating a loving home for her amazing husband.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a commentary by Allison Anton on May 15, 2024, at 11:42 am, the Biden administration, aiming to improve the President&#8217;s low approval ratings, reluctantly suggests a presidential debate\u2014an event they had been avoiding. 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