Democrats initially waved it off
Trump challenges Biden to a TV duel
March 7, 2024, 8:43 a.m
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Trump had refused TV duels with his Republican competitors in the run-up to the primaries. With his success on “Super Tuesday” behind him, the ex-president is now challenging the incumbent US President Biden. Trump rumbles that he is ready for debates “anytime, anywhere, any place.”
After his successes in the Republican primaries on Super Tuesday, former US President Donald Trump challenged incumbent Joe Biden to debates. “It is important for the well-being of our country that Joe Biden and I debate issues that are so important to America and the American people. That is why I call for debates ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANY PLACE!” Trump wrote the Truth Social platform he co-founded on Wednesday (local time) just shortly after Republican Nikki Haley withdrew from the party’s internal race for the US presidential candidacy.
According to media reports, Biden’s campaign communications director, Michael Tyler, did not comment on whether Biden would debate. He indicated that this was a discussion for a later date. Biden and Trump had two television debates in 2020 before the election. No debates have been scheduled before this year’s election in November.
Trump had been criticized for refusing to take part in televised debates with his Republican rivals for the party’s nomination for the White House. Trump, 77, has repeatedly claimed that Biden, 81, is too old and forgetful to debate him. Now Trump wrote on Truth Social that the debates could be run by the “corrupt” Democratic Party organizing committee. He looks forward to an answer.
Tyler, however, said, “I know Donald Trump is hungry for attention and struggling to expand his appeal beyond the MAGA base.” But if Trump is so desperate to see President Biden on prime time, he doesn’t have to wait, he can watch Biden’s State of the Union address scheduled for this Thursday.
The official address to both chambers of the US Congress traditionally gives the US President the opportunity to take stock of key policy issues and set out his future course. MAGA stands for Trump’s campaign motto: “Make America Great Again.”