FOX News Media and 11 other national news organizations issued a joint statement Sunday urging prospective Democratic and Republican presidential candidates to “publicly commit” to a general election debate ahead of the 2024 election. urged.
“As the contours of the 2024 general election become clearer, we, the undersigned national news organizations, are calling on presumptive presidential candidates to publicly participate in general election debates before the November election. We ask that the parties make a commitment,” the media said in a joint statement. . “General election debates have a rich tradition in our American democracy, having played an important role in every presidential election over the past 50 years up to 1976. In each of those elections, Tens of millions of people tuned in to watch the candidate debate. Together, in a contest of ideas for Americans to vote.”
“Since 1988, the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates has sponsored every presidential general election debate. The commission has previously announced dates, times, and eligibility criteria for the 2024 debate. Although it is too early to send invitations to any candidates, candidates who are expected to meet the eligibility criteria have publicly announced their support and intent to participate in the committee’s debates scheduled for this fall. It is not too early to make a statement,” the dozen news organizations continued.
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Twelve national news organizations issued a joint statement Sunday calling on potential Democratic and Republican presidential candidates to “commit” to participating in general election debates before the 2024 election. Ta. (Getty Images)
“If there’s one thing Americans can agree on in this era of polarization, it’s that the stakes in this election are very high,” the groups added. “Against that backdrop, there is no substitute for candidates discussing their vision for our country’s future before each other and before the American people.”
Other news organizations joining FOX News Media in signing this statement include ABC News, Associated Press, CBS News, CNN, C-SPAN, NBC Universal News Group, NewsNation Noticias Univision (Univision Network News), NPR, PBS NewsHour, and America Today.
The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) has been responsible for organizing presidential and vice presidential debates in the United States for more than 30 years. announced in november Venues and dates for three presidential debates and one vice presidential debate during the 2024 general election.
The scheduled presidential debate is scheduled to be held on September 16th at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. Oct. 1 at Virginia State University in Petersburg, Virginia. and Oct. 9 at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The only vice presidential debate is scheduled for September 25th at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.
When announcing the debate locations last year, CPD said each debate would begin at 9 p.m. ET and last 90 minutes without commercial breaks.
Last week, former President Donald Trump’s campaign called for an additional presidential debate to be held in 2024 “much sooner” than the debate had originally proposed. President Trump told Fox News Digital that he is “fully committed” to debating President Biden “anytime, anywhere.”
“Pending… He told the committee that he was writing the letter in agreement with the letter, The New York Times reported. From a TV network advocating for a presidential debate in 2024. ”
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Former President Donald Trump during a campaign event in Green Bay, Wisconsin on April 2, 2024. (Daniel Steinle)
“While the Commission on Presidential Debates has already announced three presidential debates and a vice presidential debate later this year, we support these debates starting sooner,” they told Fox News. said in a letter exclusively obtained by Digital.
Wiles and LaCivita cited reasons for calling for an earlier debate, saying, “Voting is starting earlier and earlier, and as we saw in 2020, tens of millions of people have already turned in their votes by the time of the first debate.” of Americans had voted.”
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital on Thursday, Trump, who is considered the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, said, “The situation in the country is so bad that it’s very important to have this discussion now.”
Last month, Biden was asked after his State of the Union address whether he would debate Trump before Election Day.
Biden, who is certain to be the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, replied, “It depends on his actions.”
Earlier this year, Biden addressed earlier calls for an early debate with Trump.
“If it were me, I would debate him,” Biden told reporters in Nevada, when asked about Trump’s desire to debate him early in the election cycle. Biden added: “He doesn’t have anything else to do.”
President Biden speaks at Union Station in Washington, DC on April 9, 2024. (Bonnie Cash/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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The Biden campaign has not yet participated in any scheduled debates, but previously pushed back against Trump’s invitation to debate the president “anytime, anywhere, anywhere.”
“We know Donald Trump is hungry for attention and struggling to expand his appeal beyond MAGA,” Biden campaign communications director Michael Tyler told Fox News Digital. “And that will be something we will discuss at the appropriate time in this cycle.” “But if you want to see President Biden in prime time, there’s no need to wait!”
