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The Commission on Presidential Debates, the non-partisan body that organizes these face-to-face, canceled on Friday the meeting between US President Donald Trump and the Democratic candidate for the White House, Joe Biden, which was scheduled for Thursday, October 15, due to disagreements regarding the format.
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In a statement, the commission recalled that had decided to virtually hold the second face-to-face between Trump and Biden next Thursday in Miami (Florida) “to protect the health and safety of all those involved,” but the president refused to participate with that format.
The debate was going to take place just two weeks after Trump tested positive for covid-19, and that diagnosis, added to the multiple infections confirmed in the White House and the president’s environment, had generated concern among the organizers of the meeting and the campaign of Biden.
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Following Trump’s refusal to participate in a virtual face-to-face, the commission noted that “It is now clear that there will be no debate on October 15, and that the CPD (commission) will turn its attention to preparations for the final presidential debate scheduled for October 22”.
In fact, he stated that “both candidates have agreed to participate in the October 22 debate.”
He recalled that this face-to-face will take place at Belmont University, in Nashville (Tennessee), and that it will be subject to “health security considerations, and in accordance with all the required tests (of covid-19), masks, social distance and other protocols “.
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This debate will be divided into six blocks of fifteen minutes and the topics to be discussed will be announced a week before the meeting by the moderator, Kristen Welker, journalist from NBC News.
The celebration of the second and third debates in Miami and Nashville was on the air since a week ago Trump announced that he had contracted covid-19 and was admitted to a hospital, which came out last Monday.
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The president has spent this week convalescing in the White House, although tomorrow, Saturday, he will participate in a face-to-face event at the presidential mansion in front of hundreds of people and on Monday they intend to hold a rally in Florida.
His personal physician, Sean Conley, said on Thursday that the president could return to participate in public events this Saturday given his positive evolution.
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EFE
