The Commission on Presidential Debates on Thursday rebuffed the Trump campaign’s request for an early-September debate between President Trump and Joe Biden
The Commission on Presidential Debates on Thursday rebuffed the Trump campaign’s request for an early-September debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden.
In a letter addressed to Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, the commission’s co-chairs wrote that the campaign’s fears of mass early voting before a debate had occurred were unfounded.“There is a difference between ballots having been issued by a state and those ballots having been cast by voters, who are under no compulsion to return their ballots before the Debates,” the letter read. “In 2016, when the debate schedule was similar, only .
“For a nation already deprived of a traditional campaign schedule because of the COVID-19 global pandemic, it makes no sense to also deprive so many Americans of the opportunity to see and hear the two competing visions for our country’s future before millions of votes have been cast,” Giuliani wrote in a letter to the commission on Wednesday.
The co-chairs of the commission acknowledged that mail-in voting would be more widespread this fall, but maintained that voters would still have the opportunity to tune in to the debates before they cast their ballots.
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