President Biden responded to former President Trump’s challenge to an “immediate” debate on Monday.<\/p>\n
Trump had issued<\/a> the challenge during a Monday radio appearance with conservative commentator Dan Bongino, saying a debate would be “good” for the country.<\/p>\n “I\u2019d like to debate him now because we should debate. We should debate for the good of the country,” Trump said.<\/p>\n Biden was asked<\/a> about Trump’s comments later that day while campaigning in Nevada.<\/p>\n BIDEN IS LYING LOW AHEAD OF SUPER BOWL AS COMMENTATORS WORRY THAT HE IS SEEN AS \u2018NOT IN CONTROL\u2019 OF THE NATION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n “Immediately? Well, if I were him, I\u2019d want to debate me, too. He\u2019s got nothing else to do,” Biden told reporters.<\/p>\n With Trump holding a commanding lead in the GOP primary, the outlook for general election debates is uncertain. The Republican National Committee withdrew from the Commission on Presidential Debates in 2022, and Trump himself has called the organization “corrupt.”<\/p>\n BIDEN SKIPPING SUPER BOWL SUNDAY INTERVIEW FOR SECOND STRAIGHT YEAR<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n “They\u2019re totally corrupt. They\u2019re totally Democrat-leaning, that\u2019s being nice when I use the word leaning,” Trump said in December, according to NBC News. “They are totally corrupt, and they\u2019re terrible. With that being said, I would do 20 debates even if it was organized by them. I\u2019ll do as many debates as they want. I\u2019d do a debate every night with this guy. But he\u2019ll never show up to a debate.”<\/p>\n Trump’s newfound willingness to debate comes after he flatly rejected calls to debate his challengers in the GOP primary race.<\/p>\n WHAT BULLY PULPIT? WHY BIDEN STAYS OFF TELEVISION DURING BIG BREAKING NEWS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, the sole remaining challenger to Trump, participated in multiple debates with other candidates while Trump was absent.<\/p>\n Trump and his campaign argue that his massive lead in GOP polls freed him of any obligation to debate distant challengers.<\/p>\n The debate commission<\/a> has so far scheduled three general election debates, though neither Trump nor Biden have publicly agreed to them. The debates are scheduled for Sept. 16 at Texas State University in San Marcos, Oct. 1 at Virginia State University in Petersburg, and Oct. 9 at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, according to NBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Biden responded to former President Trump’s challenge to an “immediate” debate on Monday. Trump had issued the challenge during a Monday radio appearance with conservative commentator Dan Bongino, saying a debate would be “good” for the country. “I\u2019d like to debate him now because we should debate. We should debate for the good of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}