Television Announcer Announces Event with Biden for October 15, After Trump Rejected Virtual Debate | 2020 U.S. elections

The announcement came after the organizing committee said that the two candidates would participate in a virtual debate to avoid risks, as the president is still recovering from Covid-19. Trump, however, rejected the offer, calling it “ridiculous.”

“I am not going to waste time with a virtual debate, that is not the idea of ​​a debate. You sit behind a computer and debate, it is ridiculous. This is not acceptable to us,” he said.

Democrats and Republicans have yet to schedule what would be a third debate, for the 22nd. Trump’s team even suggested that a new meeting be scheduled on the 29th., less than a week before the November 3 election, but this time it was Biden’s campaign that refused.

According to ABC, the October 15 event with Biden will be in Philadelphia, mediated by journalist George Stephanopoulos. The Democrat will answer questions from voters at the scene.

The president said he only learned of the decision to organize a virtual debate on Thursday, minutes before his telephone participation in a Fox News TV program. He accused the committee organizing the debate of trying to protect Biden.

The president was hospitalized on October 3 and returned to the White House on Monday. The day of his return said he was looking forward to a second debate with Biden. On Thursday, Trump said he felt “ready to campaign again,” even without healing himself.

Debate broadcast in 1960

This would not be the first time that a debate on presidential candidates had been organized in the United States without the debaters being in the same place.

In 1960, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon held a television meeting (one was in a studio in New York City, the other in Los Angeles).