President Joe Biden threw down the gauntlet on Wednesday, directly challenging former President Donald Trump – his expected 2024 rival — to not one, but two debates.
Trump later announced he has accepted an ABC News debate on Sept. 10, and a Fox News debate on Oct. 2.
He called Biden the “WORST PRESIDENT in the History of the United States and a true Threat to Democracy.”.
In challenging Trump, the president took a jab at the former president’s scheduling conflicts given his ongoing criminal hush-money trial in New York, which does not convene on Wednesdays.
Trump accepts Biden's debate challenge on Truth Social pic.twitter.com/6pF7u5xfg7 — nikki mccann ramírez (@NikkiMcR) May 15, 2024.
After weeks of hesitation, Biden told Howard Stern in April that he would be “happy” to debate Trump at some point in the election cycle.
Trump has bailed out of plenty of public promises in the past — including to testify in court proceedings — so we’ll see if he actually follows through with his pledge to debate Biden. »