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Donald Trump says on Fox News that he will not participate in a video debate, shortly after the debate committee declared that the second presidential debate will not be held in Miami, as scheduled.
– I will not participate virtually. “I think I’m not contagious at all,” Trump said in the interview.
– I will not waste my time on that, says the president.
However, Joe Biden is in favor of such a debate.
“He hopes to speak directly to the American people and compare his plan to unite America,” Biden’s campaign said in a statement.
– Fear of being cut off
The fly stole the spotlight during the debate
Trump further said he was not informed of the decision in advance and that the commission was only doing it “to protect Biden.”
– Remember: when you contract the virus and get better, you become immune, he says.
The campaign is furious
In a statement, the Trump campaign writes:
– President Trump won the first debate despite a terrible moderator in Chris Wallace, and everyone knows it.
In addition, the campaign claims that Trump will conduct a series of negative corona tests before the debate in a week.
Steal the show
– Everyone’s safety can be easily respected without canceling the debate so that voters can see the candidates face to face.
– It’s a sad excuse to free Joe Biden from jail. Instead, we will hold an election campaign event, says Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien.
According to Trump, he fears that his voice will be cut off if the debate takes place virtually. The debate, which will take place the night before next Thursday, was scheduled to take place in Miami, Florida.
Match
Donald Trump announced last Wednesday that he would stand for debate, despite being diagnosed with coronavirus last week.
On Thursday afternoon, the presidential debate committee announced that the debate will not take place in its original form, with the two candidates on stage in Miami. Now it will be a battle.
The Debate Committee wants Trump to stay in the White House, while Joe Biden will be elsewhere.
The plan is that moderator Steve Scully and several people who will ask questions of the candidates will remain in the room in Miami.
Isolated: – Like a ghost town
It is described as a security measure that the debate takes place virtually.
Up to 34 people have tested positive in the so-called “Trump eruption”, linked to the White House. Among them are the first lady, advisers, journalists, colleagues, but also the family of people who have been in the White House.
– Better without further discussion
Norwegian senior researcher and American expert Svein Melby believes that American democracy is “better served” by that. not Several debates are taking place between Biden and Trump.
– The first debate was so desperate that it was conducted at the expense of the normal democratic rules of the game. I think that American democracy does not benefit from more debates of this kind. And there is no reason to believe that Trump will behave differently in upcoming debates, Melby tells Dagbladet.
The experienced researcher at the Department of Defense Studies (IFS), which is part of the Norwegian Defense College (FHS), cannot recall that a presidential candidate has refused to participate in a debate, having already participated in a previous debate.
– But it is typical of this administration that they do exactly what is convenient for them.
It’s not the first time
If the debate is carried out virtually, it is not the first time since the presidential debates began to be broadcast on television in the United States that the candidates have been kept separate.
In 1960, a technological eternity ago, the third debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon took place in different places.
Kennedy sat in a television studio in New York, while Nixon sat in a television studio in Los Angeles, while viewers had the opportunity to see both candidates simultaneously on television.
Then the debate leader was also in a completely different place, in Chicago.
The case is being updated
