Incumbent President Joe Biden and Donald Trump agreed on Wednesday to hold the first presidential debate in June. The Democrat president challenged his rival to \u201cmake my day\u201d and the scandal-plagued Republican promptly responded that he was ready to \u201crumble.\u201d CNN announced it plans to host the first debate on the 27 of June, in Atlanta (Georgia). Biden proposed a second debate in September and Trump accepted. Joe Biden, who is now aged 81, had set out \u2018his own terms\u2019 for the debates with \u2018political showman\u2019 Trump. The terms relate to the time limits for speakers and the fact that debates will have no live audience (a condition CNN says it has agreed to). Biden has sought to exercise control over the format. In his first formal debate offer after months of \u2018stalling\u2019, the Democrat shunned the traditional calendar proposed by the commission, which has run debates since the year 1988. Trump, who is now 77, accepted the dates, despite setting out a \u2018starkly different\u2019 vision. Trump was in favor of a larger venue for \u201cexcitement purposes\u201d and accused the Democrat of being \u201cafraid of crowds\u201d. \u201cDonald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020. Since then, he hasn\u2019t shown up for a debate. Now he\u2019s acting like he wants to debate me again. Well, make my day, pal,\u201d Biden stated in a video on the social media platform, X. \u201cI\u2019ll even do it twice.\u201d Biden did not hold back from \u2018trolling\u2019 Trump over his ongoing criminal hush money trial in New York, which features a mid-week break. Biden added: \u201cSo let\u2019s pick the dates Donald\u201d. I hear you\u2019re free on Wednesdays.\u201c In a statement CNN stated that the debate would be held at its studios in Atlanta, in the \u201ccrucial battleground state of Georgia.\u201d \u201cTo ensure candidates will be able to maximize the time allotted in the debate, no audience will be present. Moderators for the debate and additional details will be announced at a later date\u201d the statement read. Biden\u2019s offer for the debate, appeared to show him taking a calculated risk \u2018of putting Trump back into American living rooms\u2019, ahead of November\u2019s Presidential election. Biden is hopeful it may reverse the Republican\u2019s poll lead, in a number of battleground states. The Biden campaign has increasingly been trying to \u2018remind\u2019 voters of what they say is the \u2018true face\u2019 of the mercurial former president, who lost the race to the White House, in 2020. What Biden campaign fears, is Trump \u201cnostalgia\u201d in certain quarters, even as the Republican details his stark vision for an authoritarian second term in various interviews. \u2018Will you shut up?\u2019 For his part, Trump previously stated he would debate his rival \u201canytime, anywhere\u201d. Trump seeks to portray Biden as \u2018old and incapable\u2019 of \u2018leadership\u2019. After Biden\u2019s challenge, Trump (who avoided any debates with his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination this year) said he was \u201cready to Rumble!!!\u201d for the proposed June and September debates. He described Biden as the \u201cWORST debater I have ever faced\u201d and added: \u201cI would strongly recommend more than two debates and, for excitement purposes, a very large venue, although Biden is supposedly afraid of crowds.\u201d The 2020 debates between the two candidates famously featured Biden saying \u201cwill you shut up, man?\u201d (when Trump repeatedly talked over him).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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