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Donald Trump said he accepted a fourth presidential debate against Joe Biden.
“I have accepted a fourth Presidential Debate against Crooked Joe Biden, this time with NBC & Telemundo. It is important as Republicans that we WIN with our Great Hispanic Community, who Biden has devastated with Crippling Inflation, High Gas Prices, Crime in our Streets, and Border Chaos. This Fourth Debate will go along with our previously accepted Presidential Debates on CNN, ABC, and Fox,” Trump said on Truth Social.
“This is all in addition to our accepting an invitation from Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum of Fox News to host the Vice Presidential Debate at Virginia State University, or another venue, in Virginia, to be named later. These are the Debates that Voters have been asking for, and these are the Debates that Voters will get!” he added.
Trump accepts fourth debate offer from NBC & Telemundo pic.twitter.com/8QCyjiYhmG
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 17, 2024
Trump previously announced on Truth Social that he accepted a third debate against Joe Biden hosted by Fox News.
“Please let this TRUTH serve to represent that I hereby accept debating Crooked Joe Biden on FoxNews. The date will be Wednesday, October 2nd. The Hosts will be Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum. Thank you, DJT!” Trump said.
According to NBC News, the Biden campaign rejected the two additional debates Trump said he accepted.
President Biden rejects additional debates against Trump https://t.co/J42ia78qFj pic.twitter.com/ndSlAscXsJ
— New York Post (@nypost) May 18, 2024
Per NBC News:
A spokesperson for NBC News confirmed that the network had offered a debate to both campaigns.
Trump's acceptance of debates that would have reached larger Latino and Black audiences seemed aimed, at part, at goading the Biden campaign, which has been struggling to connecting with these communities that were critical to his election in 2020.
“The debate about debates is over,” a Biden campaign official said. “No more games.”
In a statement Friday night, the Trump campaign responded by blasting Biden's decision.
"The Telemundo/NBC debate would be widely watched by Hispanic voters, but Biden’s handlers are petrified to allow him to defend his disastrous record," campaign spokeswoman Danielle Alvarez said. "Crooked Joe Biden is too 'cobarde' to address the Hispanic community and answer for his failures on the debate stage!"
This week, the Trump and Biden campaigns bypassed the traditional process run by the Commission on Presidential Debates and agreed to two presidential debates: one hosted by CNN in Atlanta on June 27, and another by ABC News on Sept. 10, with the location yet to be determined.
