Many national news organizations are urging presumptive presidential candidates to attend debates before the election. November elections.
In a joint statement Sunday, the news outlets, without mentioning President Joe Biden or former President Donald Trump, pressed the candidates to promise to participate in debates scheduled by the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates.
“While it is still too early for invitations to be extended to any candidate, it is not too early for candidates waiting to meet the eligibility criteria to publicly express their support and intention to participate in the Commission’s planned debates this fall. “, – a group of news organizations, including NBC News, said in a joint statement.
Biden and Trump both won enough delegates to secure their nominations at party conventions.
News outlets cited the election’s “exceptionally high” stakes, adding that “there is no substitute for the candidates’ vision of our nation’s future with each other and with the American people.”
In addition to NBC News, other signatories include ABC News, The Associated Press, CBS News, CNN, C-SPAN, Fox News, NewsNation, Noticias Univision, NPR, PBS NewsHour and USA Today.
The statement followed Trump’s campaign appeal last week more presidential debatesand for those contests to begin “much sooner” than the commission’s three scheduled contests for September 16, October 1, and October 9.
The debates are scheduled to take place at Texas State University in San Marcos, followed by Virginia State University in Petersburg and the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
The commission has sponsored all general presidential debates since 1988.
Biden he hasn’t said yet Does he plan to debate Trump and his aides? He recently told NBC News the campaign won’t make a decision until later this year. Vice President Kamala Harris said in an interview with NBC News last month he didn’t speak addressed the president about the possibility of debating his predecessor and did not go to the vice-presidential debate at that time.
Trump jumped All the key Republican debates this election cycle.
Biden and Trump they argued with each other in the 2020 campaign.