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Biden challenges Trump to 2 debates but won't participate in nonpartisan commission's debates

May 15, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    80% Very Conservative

  • Reliability

    30% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    92% Very Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -6% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Trump responded to the letter in an interview with Fox News digital, calling the proposed dates "fully acceptable to me" and joked about providing his own transportation.
44% : Biden's campaign has long-held a grudge against the nonpartisan commission for failing to evenly apply its rules during the 2020 Biden-Trump matchups -- most notably when it didn't enforce its COVID-19 testing rules on Trump and his entourage -- and Biden's team has held talks with television networks and some Republicans about ways to circumvent the commission's grip on presidential debates.
39% : Trump said at a Pennsylvania rally before his hush money trial began that the debates were needed.
33% : The president first indicated he would be willing to debate Trump during an interview with the radio host Howard Stern last month, telling him that "I am, somewhere.
26% : Trump, too, has taken issue with the debate commission, but he and his team have maintained that they don't care who hosts the debates as long as they happen.
23% : "We have to debate because our country is going in the wrong direction so badly," Trump said with the empty podium next to him.
12% : "Trump has repeatedly dared Biden to debate him, keeping a second podium open at rallies and claiming that his rival would not be up for the task.
11% : Biden, in a post on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, sought to needle his rival, saying, "Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020, since then, he hasn't shown up for a debate.

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