Trump Pushes For Two Extra Debates On NBC And Fox, Challenging Biden's Two-Debate Limit

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 Former President Donald Trump said Friday he accepted an invitation for a fourth presidential debate hosted by NBC, adding to a slate of debates the GOP nominee has pushed for, as President Joe Biden commits to just two debates ahead of the election.


 Trump said he’s willing to debate Biden in an event broadcasted on NBC and Telemundo, arguing in a Truth Social post it’s “important as Republicans that we WIN with our Great Hispanic Community.”

The former president did not provide a date for the NBC debate, and NBC News did not immediately respond to Forbes’ inquiry—and Biden has not publicly accepted NBC’s invitation.

Trump and Biden formally agreed to debate twice in the lead-up to the November election, including a CNN debate moderated by Jake Tapper and Dana Bush on June 27 and another on ABC moderated by David Muir and Linsey Davis on Sept. 10, with Biden challenging Trump to debate in a video this week, saying: “make my day, pal, I’ll even do it twice.”

Trump, who had repeatedly called on Biden to debate throughout the campaign, accepted Biden’s request, and later doubled down by pushing for additional debates, saying he accepted a Fox News invitation for an Oct. 2 debate hosted by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum—which Biden had not agreed to.

Biden’s campaign spokesperson Jen O’Malley Dillon struck back at Trump on Thursday, arguing he “has a long history of playing games with debates” as well as breaking campaign rules and pulling out at the last minute—referencing Trump’s absence from a series of GOP primary debates last year. The Biden campaign also said the outlets that host debates should be limited to those that hosted a 2016 Republican primary debate or a 2020 primary debate “so neither campaign can assert that the sponsoring organization is obviously unacceptable.”

CNN and ABC’s debate rules require participating candidates to have at least 15% of support in at least four national polls and have their names on enough state ballots to win the necessary 270 electoral votes to win. Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the son of assassinated 1968 Democratic candidate Robert F. Kennedy, is polling just below that threshold, hitting 9.7% on FiveThirtyEight’s weighted polling average.


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