June and September Presidential debates called for

[George K]

By...Biden?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/15/biden-trump-presidential-debates/?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&location=alert

President Biden said Wednesday that he will not participate in the decades-old tradition of three fall meetings organized by the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates, instead calling on his Republican rival Donald Trump to join him for two televised presidential debates in June and September.
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The Biden proposal, outlined in a video message and letter to the commission, called for direct negotiations between the Trump and Biden campaigns over the rules, moderators and network hosts for the one-on-one meetings. He proposed a separate vice-presidential debate in July, after the Republican nominating convention and before the Democratic nominating convention.

“Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020, and since then he hasn’t shown up for a debate. Now he is acting like he wants to debate me again. Well, make my day, pal. I’ll even do it twice,” Biden said in the video released Wednesday that referenced the weekly break in Trump’s New York criminal trial. “So let’s pick the dates, Donald. I hear you’re free on Wednesdays.”

Biden campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon cited the commission’s proposed schedule and past struggles to keep candidates from violating the debate rules in the letter explaining the decision.

[jon-nyc]

“So let’s pick the dates, Donald. I hear you’re free on Wednesdays.”

Lol

[Jolly]

Let's do Lincoln-Douglas style.

[Axtremus]

@Jolly said in June and September Presidential debates called for:

Let's do Lincoln-Douglas style.

All they did was talk. You’re the one who often say of politicians “don’t listen to what they say, look at what they do.” Yet here you are advocating for politicians to just talk a lot.

It’s the 21st century. I want to see multimedia presentations with rich data visualizations, completely with proper citations to sources to allow easy verification and evaluation by third parties.

[Mik]

I was thinking Hamilton-Burr.

[Axtremus]

You all really should think about going into the future rather than returning to the past.

[George K]

"Reportedly the moderators can only be from CBS News, ABC News, CNN, or Telemundo. "

[Mik]

@Axtremus said in June and September Presidential debates called for:

You all really should think about going into the future rather than returning to the past.

Nahh. Assuming at least one doesn't miss, we get one or both new candidates.

[George K]

No audience. I agree that having debates after people have started voting is wrong.

[taiwan_girl]

@George-K said in June and September Presidential debates called for:

No audience. I agree that having debates after people have started voting is wrong.

Agree. I also think that there should be a "mute" button. Once your time is up speaking, you cannot talk.

[George K]

June 27th on CNN.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/15/biden-trump-presidential-debates/?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&location=alert

Biden’s team has requested that only broadcast networks that hosted Republican primary debates in 2016 and Democratic primary debates in 2020 be eligible to host the first debate. Only four networks — CNN, ABC News, Telemundo and CBS News — hosted debates for both parties during those cycles.

Biden proposed that the moderator should be selected by the broadcast host from its “regular personnel,” with firm time limits for answers, equal speaking time, alternative turns to speak and microphones that are active only during each candidate’s turn. The first debate would take place after the June 15 conclusion of the Group of Seven summit in Italy and the conclusion of Trump’s criminal trial in New York. The September debate would take place before the start of early voting.

[LuFins Dad]

Isn’t that before the conventions?

[George K]

@LuFins-Dad said in June and September Presidential debates called for:

Isn’t that before the conventions?

Uh huh. DNC is 8/19-8/22. RNC is 7/15-7/18.

[LuFins Dad]

Yeah, that’s a big fat no. No debates until both presumptive nominees ARE the nominees. There’s a process for a reason. And the GOP are idiots to agree to a debate with a candidate that might not be the nominee anymore in August. And the debate might even be the decisive factor in the DNC making that change.

[Jolly]

@Axtremus said in June and September Presidential debates called for:

@Jolly said in June and September Presidential debates called for:

Let's do Lincoln-Douglas style.

All they did was talk. You’re the one who often say of politicians “don’t listen to what they say, look at what they do.” Yet here you are advocating for politicians to just talk a lot.

It’s the 21st century. I want to see multimedia presentations with rich data visualizations, completely with proper citations to sources to allow easy verification and evaluation by third parties.

You want a debate or competing presentations?

[Copper]

@Jolly said in June and September Presidential debates called for:

You want a debate or competing presentations?

Gotcha lines.

You're no John Kennedy.

Who am I? Why am I here?

[jon-nyc]

@Mik said in June and September Presidential debates called for:

I was thinking Hamilton-Burr.

lol

[George K]

@Copper said in June and September Presidential debates called for:

John Kennedy.

And the actual quotation was, "Sir, you're no Jack Kennedy."

[jon-nyc]

Wrong pic? Doesn’t look like Bentsen.

[jon-nyc]

By the way, thinking about this topic, this is probably the first time ever that the VP debate is at least as important as the presidential debate.