Former President Donald Trump called on President Joe Biden to set up a presidential debate on Thursday and even proposed the White House as a potential venue.
Trump challenged Biden to a debate on Thursday evening in a video uploaded to Truth Social, during which he told the president that he would be happy to debate in a place of Biden’s choosing.
“Dear Joe, now that you’ve committed to debate on the ratings-challenged Howard Stern Show, let’s set it up right now,” said Trump. “I’m ready to go anywhere that you are. We could do it in D.C., even pinpoint the White House, or in New York when your radical-left fascists are finished with the election interference against your political opponent, me, because we’re gonna win and we’re gonna win big.”
He continued, “In any event, let’s get it done. The people of our country deserve to know why you have allowed 15 million people in, probably many more than that, into our country from prisons and mental institutions, and terrorists are pouring into our country. They’re invading our country and you’re letting them do it.”
During an appearance on The Howard Stern Show last month, Biden told host Howard Stern he would be “happy” to debate Trump ahead of the election in November.
“I’m happy to debate him,” said Biden, adding however that he didn’t know “when.”
Neither Biden nor Trump took part in any primary debates this election cycle. Biden, for the most part, refused to acknowledge his Democratic primary challengers, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dean Phillips, while Trump argued he had nothing to gain from debating his opponents since he was so far ahead in the polls.
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