Trump Campaign Calls On Biden To Debate Earlier, More Often

Republican National Committee co-chair Michael Whatley ripped President Biden’s refusal to debate former President Trump ahead of election day, stating that Trump is willing to debate “anywhere, anytime, on any platform.”

“If you think about back in the 2020 cycle where one of these debates was actually moderated by a former Joe Biden staffer, you can’t get much more biased than that. We need to make sure that we have a responsible debate. We have an even debate,” Whatley said during a recent interview with Newsmax. 

“Look, when President Trump is on stage with Joe Biden, he is going to be able to put his message out to the American voters. And we’ve never seen a bigger contrast between the two candidates. You think about the four years under President Trump, where we had a thriving economy, we had a strong place in the world, we had a secure southern border, and everything that has gone wrong since Joe Biden has taken office, we don’t need bias from the moderators trying has gone wrong since Joe Biden has taken office, we don’t need bias from the moderators trying to tilt that playing field.”

President Trump has been very clear. He will debate Joe Biden anywhere, anytime, on any platform.

The question is: will Biden come out of the basement to defend his failed record? pic.twitter.com/punezaI2wy

— Michael Whatley (@ChairmanWhatley) April 12, 2024

Trump and Biden debated just twice in 2020, with then-President Trump dropping out of one scheduled event after it was changed from in-person to online.

In 2024, the Trump campaign has been calling for the number of debates to increase and be scheduled earlier in the election cycle. “While the Commission on Presidential Debates has already announced three presidential debates and a vice-presidential debate to occur later this year, we are in favor of these debates beginning much earlier,” Trump campaign co-chairs Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita wrote in a letter to The Commission on Presidential Debates co-chairs Frank Farenkopf Jr. and Antonia Hernandez last week.

Wiles and LaCivita noted that “voting is beginning earlier and earlier, and as we saw in 2020, tens of millions of Americans had already voted by the time of the first debate.”

“By the date of the first proposed debate, September 16, 2024, over 1 million Americans will have likely voted,” the letter went on to say. “By the date of the second proposed debate, October 1, 2024, the number of Americans who will have likely cast a ballot will be over 3 million, an increase of 225%.”