Politics

Biden Campaign Says it Will Take Questions From Voters Rather Than Debate Trump

Trump campaign says “swamp creatures” at Commission on Presidential Debates are bailing out former VP.

Published

3 years ago

8 October, 2020

Paul Joseph Watson

BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/Getty Images

Joe Biden’s presidential campaign has announced it will take questions from voters rather than debate President Trump for the next event that was scheduled to take place on October 15.

Earlier today, the Commission on Presidential Debates revealed that it was shifting the second debate to a virtual only format due to Trump’s COVID diagnosis, prompting critics to argue this would help Biden because he is used to working out of his “basement”.

Trump immediately shot back, saying he would refuse to do a remote debate because “that’s not what debating is all about.”

"I'm not gonna waste my time on a virtual debate," Trump announces on Fox Business pic.twitter.com/OgHGlJ53wb

— Dave Brown (@dave_brown24) October 8, 2020

“I’m not going to waste my time on a virtual debate, that’s not what debating is all about. You sit behind a computer and do a debate, it’s ridiculous,” said Trump.

Now the Biden campaign says it will organize its own virtual town hall where the former Vice President answers questions from voters, “as he has done on several occasions in recent weeks.”

New stmt from @JoeBiden campaign: “Joe Biden will find an appropriate place to take questions from voters directly on October 15th…Given the President's refusal to participate on October 15th, we hope the Debate Commission will move the Biden-Trump Town Hall to October 22nd.” pic.twitter.com/oFOcKU4qG9

— Moeko Nitohbe (@mokochita) October 8, 2020

The campaign also called on the CPD to move the next full debate to October 22 so “the President is not able to evade accountability.”

The Trump campaign responded by putting out a statement asserting that “the swamp creatures” at the Commission on Presidential Debates were trying to save Biden from another disastrous debate performance and that “unilaterally canceling an in-person debate is pathetic.”

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“President Trump will have posted multiple negative tests prior to the debate, so there is no need for this unilateral decision,” the statement added, charging that it was an “sad excuse” to “bail out Joe Biden” that that they would “do a rally instead.”

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Politics

Donald Trump to Counter-Program Second GOP Debate by Appearing with Striking Auto Workers in Detroit

The GOP frontrunner will deliver a “prime-time speech before current and former union members.

Published

2 weeks ago

19 September, 2023

Nick Gilbertson | Breitbart

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Former President Donald Trump will appear with striking union members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) in Detroit, Michigan, as his opponents squabble for the spotlight on the debate stage on September 27, according to a report that multiple sources have confirmed to Breitbart News.

The New York Times first reported on Trump’s forthcoming appearance with Detroit auto workers striking against the big three automakers — General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis — which will serve as counter-programming to the GOP debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.

The GOP frontrunner will deliver a “prime-time speech before current and former union members,” according to the Times, as they strike for higher wages following 40-year-high inflation and seek commitments from automakers and the federal government that Biden’s electrical vehicle agenda will not threaten their jobs or pay, as Breitbart News has documented.

Multiple Trump aides have confirmed the 45th president’s plans to Breitbart News.

Trump, who regularly takes a majority of support in independent national GOP primary polls, is keeping with the strategy his campaign employed in the first debate when he skipped the event and instead joined Tucker Carlson for a one-on-one 45-minute interview on the host’s eponymously-named show, Tucker on Twitter.

After battling the counter-programming, which was released at the start of the first GOP debate on August 23 and instantly went viral, debate storylines quickly fell to the wayside when Trump surrendered in Fulton County, Georgia, on his fourth indictment a day later. The arrest produced the now-iconic mugshot of Trump, the first-ever mugshot of a former president of the United States.

Trump’s latest plans further signal his focus on a potential general election rematch with President Joe Biden rather than the Republican primary, as union workers who were long the foundation of the Democrat coalition were pivotal in helping elect him to office in 2016, as Breitbart News’s John Binder emphasized on Saturday:

In 2016, union workers helped propel Trump and his nationalist-populist agenda to the White House — scoring the most support among union households for any Republican presidential candidate since former President Ronald Reagan in 1984.
In 2020, Biden helped widen that gap by taking 57 percent of union households compared to Trump’s 40 percent. Trump could significantly increase his share of union households in a rematch against Biden by registering to vote millions of non-college-educated whites in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania who remain disenfranchised.

Binder’s report highlighted that the Detroit Free Press first revealed that Trump was weighing a visit to Michigan to meet with UAW members striking against the Big Three automakers.