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EXCLUSIVE: The Trump marketing campaign is asking for added 2024 presidential debates and for them to happen “a lot earlier” than initially proposed by the talk fee, with former President Trump telling Fox Information Digital that he’s “completely dedicated” to debating President Biden “anytime, anyplace, anyplace.”
Fox Information Digital solely obtained a letter Trump co-campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita despatched Thursday to The Fee on Presidential Debates co-chairs Frank Farenkopf Jr. and Antonia Hernandez.
Wiles and LaCivita instructed the fee they had been writing “in settlement with the pending letter,” reported by The New York Instances, “from tv networks advocating for presidential debates to happen in 2024.”
“Whereas the Fee on Presidential Debates has already introduced three presidential debates and a vice-presidential debate to happen later this yr, we’re in favor of those debates starting a lot earlier,” they wrote.
TRUMP CALLS FOR DEBATES WITH BIDEN ‘ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE’
Former President Donald Trump arrives at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Georgia on Wednesday, April 10, 2024. Trump is visiting the state to host a marketing campaign fundraising occasion. (Robin Rayne for Fox Information Digital)
First, Wiles and LaCivita mentioned “voting is starting earlier and earlier, and as we noticed in 2020, tens of thousands and thousands of Individuals had already voted by the point of the primary debate.”
“Particular to the Commissions proposed 2024 calendar, it merely comes too late,” they wrote, including an estimate of what number of Individuals may have already voted by the date of every scheduled debate.
“By the date of the primary proposed debate, September 16, 2024, over 1 million Individuals may have probably voted,” they wrote. “By the date of the second proposed debate, October 1, 2024, the variety of Individuals who may have probably solid a poll will probably be over 3 million, a rise of 225%.”
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By the third proposed debate date on Oct. 9, 35 days from Election Day, Wiles and LaCivita estimated that “roughly 8.7 million Individuals may have already voted.”
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden solutions a query and President Donald Trump listens in the course of the second and last presidential debate Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020, at Belmont College in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photograph/Morry Gash, Pool)
The Trump marketing campaign argued that in 2020, Individuals “had been robbed of a real and sturdy debate,” with the fee solely internet hosting two debates that occurred “a lot too late within the election calendar regardless of voting timelines having moved up exponentially.”
In an unique interview with Fox Information Digital on Thursday, Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, mentioned it’s “crucial to have the debates now as a result of the nation is doing so badly.”
Trump listed the disaster on the southern border, nationwide safety, America’s standing on the world stage, rising crime, the financial system and extra.
“The nation is in such hassle,” Trump instructed Fox Information Digital. “What are Biden’s plans?”
“I’d totally settle for any debate, anyplace, anytime, anyplace,” he continued.
When requested if he thought Biden, too, would decide to a debate in opposition to him on the problems that matter most to voters, Trump replied:
“Maybe he’ll, maybe he gained’t. I actually don’t care,” he mentioned. “I’m completely dedicated to debating him anytime, anyplace, anywhere.”
As for the talk schedule, Trump instructed Fox Information Digital “the sooner the higher.”
first woman Melania Trump, left, and President Donald Trump, middle, stay on stage as Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, proper, stroll away on the conclusion of the second and last presidential debate Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020, at Belmont College in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photograph/Julio Cortez)
“I feel it’s important that we debate and the sooner the higher as a result of folks have to search out out what’s going on with America,” he defined. “We’re not revered around the globe. There are such a lot of issues which are taking place.”
He added: “It’s not the identical nation that we had simply 4 years in the past.”
In the meantime, of their letter to the talk fee, the Trump marketing campaign mentioned that in 2020, the fee “ceded to the desires of the Biden marketing campaign on each entrance.”
“Equity in such a setting is paramount and the Fee should make sure that the 2024 Fee-sponsored debates are actually honest and performed impartially,” they wrote.
“The Fee should transfer up the timetable of its proposed 2024 debates to make sure extra Individuals have a full likelihood to see the candidates earlier than they begin voting, and we’d argue for including extra debates along with these on the at the moment proposed schedule,” they wrote. “We’ve got already indicated President Trump is prepared to debate anytime, anyplace, and anyplace—and the time to start out these debates is now.”
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“Former President Abraham Lincoln and former U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas held seven debates of their storied 1858 U.S. Senate battle in Illinois,” they added. “Actually immediately’s America deserves as a lot.”
Biden and his marketing campaign have but to decide to debates in opposition to Trump.
When requested final month if he would debate the previous president, Biden mentioned it was depending on Trump’s “habits.”
“Is dependent upon his habits,” Biden mentioned.
Earlier this yr, Biden addressed earlier requires earlier debates with Trump.
“If I had been him, I’d need to debate me, too,” Biden instructed reporters in Nevada when requested about Trump eager to debate him earlier within the election cycle.
“He’s acquired nothing else to do,” Biden mentioned.
Brooke Singman is a political correspondent and reporter for Fox Information Digital, Fox Information Channel and FOX Enterprise.
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