Biden and Trump accept CNN's invitation to debate on June 27

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN Politics

Updated 10:54 AM EDT, Wed May 15, 2024


Washington CNN — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have both accepted an invitation from CNN to debate on June 27, a historically early showdown that will set the tone for the final months of the 2024 campaign.

“I’ve received and accepted an invitation from @CNN for a debate on June 27th. Over to you, Donald. As you said: anywhere, any time, any place,” Biden said in a post on X.

A Trump campaign official later told CNN that Trump had accepted the offer.

The news is the latest development in a quickly escalating tit-for-tat over debates between the two political rivals. Biden’s campaign earlier called on Trump to join him for two presidential debates hosted by news organizations and formally informed the Commission on Presidential Debates that the president will not participate in its previously scheduled fall debates. The former president quickly said he was on board with earlier debates and told radio host Hugh Hewitt that he would accept any moderator.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/15/politics/joe-biden-debate/index.html

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I’ve received and accepted an invitation from @CNN for a debate on June 27th. Over to you, Donald. As you said: anywhere, any time, any place.
10:14 AM · May 15, 2024

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Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020. Since then, he hasn’t shown up for a debate.

Now he’s acting like he wants to debate me again.

Well, make my day, pal.
8:00 AM · May 15, 2024

[Jerry2144]

1. This will be a battle of wits

And trump is taking a plastic spork (KFC Special)

[evolves]

27. One has wits,

and the other has the shits.

[Traildogbob]

33. 😂

Oops! I bellied laughed so hard I farted. And my dogs did not notice. Even with their scent skills.
So all good.
And there is no way Trump is farting at least Out his bottom anus. It is so packed with spineless heads there is zero room for any gas. So when it is not spewing verbal shit, he has to release gas through his chin anus. Every time it is in the perfect shape of a gaping Anal orifice, that is a gas release.
And MAGA women are lining up to kiss that damn thing, behind Lake, Noem, MTG, and a host of Fox Ho’s. If Lindsay will move aside for a second.

[Joinfortmill]

35. rofl

[4139]

38. This will battle of wits... vs half-wit

[Deminpenn]

42. The old joke

I never have a battle of wits with someone who's unarmed.

[NanaCat]

50. I do believe the more appropriate description

Would be a battle of the wits v the witless.

[jimfields33]

2. This is going to be good. Biden has so much material.

Trump will regret saying ok.

[SergeStorms]

48. I doubt very much....

if Trump will actually accept and attend any debate that doesn't somehow give him an advantage.

In a battle of facts and wit, Trump is unarmed.

[NanaCat]

51. The OP made it clear that TSF has accepted

He must know that CNN is going to all but get on their knees and fellate him while throwing the book at Joe.

[SergeStorms]

62. So, you're going to accept Trump and his "word?"

Because Trump has never lied to anyone before, right? 🤣

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Does CNN allow parolees to debate? It's a possibly relevant question. ./nt

[Funtatlaguy]

9. With an ankle bracelet.

[Raven123]

4. Nuts. I no longer watch CNN. Won't change now

Unfortunately, CNN likely will have a live audience. I oppose that decision

[thesquanderer]

21. links says it will be done with no audience present. n/t

[Lovie777]

28. Say what?..........................

shithole won't be pleased, his dressed alike howdy boys won't be happy, and Mike Johnson will have to comment on shithole outside.

[Raven123]

37. Thank you. If that is true, I will reconsider!

[BoRaGard]

5. MUST HAVE: a kill switch for the microphones

So the moderator can shut up Donnie Diaperpants when he is having tantrums.

[Owens]

6. Better be strict microphone cutoffs if Trump does not follow the rules

Also, Biden should ask that the debate take place at 9 am...... let's see who is the sleepy one

[Owens]

7. Better have strict rules and microphone turned off it going over the time limit

Also, Biden should ask that the debate take place at 9 am...... let's see who is the sleepy one

[captain queeg]

8. TSF is on board for an early debate...he wants to do it before his waning mental capacity gets too obvious

I’d be interested to find out what sort of pharmaceuticalPreparations he’ll be making. Maybe junior can Set him up with some coke.

[bluestarone]

10. It's 100% possible to control the Mic, BUT

That won't stop his MOUTH! That's a given. I'm sure Joe will know that and be ready for it though.

[NanaCat]

52. TSF should have to wear a shock collar

Give him a good jolt whenever he talks over people or talks over his time limit.

Make it just under 1/4 amp. That will light him up, LOL.

[mucifer]

11. Crap I hate hearing President Biden

Screaming to get a word in. It was so horrible last time.

Nothing else he could do. It reaallly sucked.

[FalloutShelter]

12. I'll believe it when I see it.

Bully says, "I'll meet you behind the school at lunch hour.", and never shows up.

Especially if he is convicted before then. My $20 is on Trump will not debate.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. First thing I thought about

"Meet me after school. Fair one."

And then everyone at the school shows up but the loudmouth bully.

[FalloutShelter]

15. LOL

Did we go to the same high school?

[BumRushDaShow]

20. I remember it happening back in middle/junior high

I went to an all-girls high school... although it did happen at times, not at school, but on the bus after school (public transit ).

[NanaCat]

53. I think everyone went to that school

Mum told me they do the same thing in the UK, LOL.

[MOMFUDSKI]

18. At my High School it was

at the flagpole. I witnessed many a scrap.

[FalloutShelter]

56. At the flagpole.

Oh the drama.

[birdographer]

26. I don't see it happening

I think Donnie is aware, on some level, of his problem pronouncing words. At his hate rallies, he has morons in the audience who (a) don't know words, and (b) don't care. This time we are watching. And no teleprompter, no speech writer putting his responses together for him, all alone up there with a smart, well-spoken man. I think he will back out, and may even be encouraged to do so.

[FalloutShelter]

29. I agree.

His word ephasia is accelerating, and I just keep wondering how long his handlers can put him in front of a camera at all.

[hay rick]

13. Trump will back out.

[Midnight Writer]

36. I agree. I already heard the Hate Radio Talkers this AM making excuses for TFG to back out.

They seem to be upset by "the rules", as usual. Such as no live audience and killing the microphone between responses.

[rurallib]

16. Along with the mic cutoff switch they best have a team of real fact checkers

because the lies will be coming from everywhere and fast as bullets from an AR15.

[Bayard]

17. This should be fun

Depending on who the moderator is, and if they have a kill switch. But CNN isn't what it used to be.

[MOMFUDSKI]

19. Which right wing groupie will

moderate? Yuck

[IronLionZion]

22. Webcam from Trump's prison cell

while wearing his finest orange jumpsuit

But on a serious note, any cord cutters who have Amazon Prime can stream it live through CNN's online channel. That's how I watched other debates and State of the Union and similar events.

[NanaCat]

55. Good to know

Now I need to take enough Zofran so that I don't get nauseous at the very sight or sound of TSF.

[JohnSJ]

23. If the debates have an audience, I won't waste my time watching the media circus, with the cheers and boos

coming from a respective partisan circus

[Enoki33]

24. Strongly suspect VonShitzenPanz will

perform exactly as that name implies, and then tell his cult members it was a perfect performance.

[Polybius]

25. Why so early?

June? What debate in modern history was ever before September?

[BumRushDaShow]

30. It's before the conventions

but after all the current year's primaries are done.

FEC primary schedule (PDF) - https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/2024pdates.pdf

There are 4 straggler states and D.C. with primaries on 6/4 (and 2 straggler territories - WI & Guam with 6/8 (D) primaries).

Before the current jockeying for being "early" with primaries, to show a past example, in 2012, you had 11 states that held primaries in August and 5 in September! Some of the decision behind that was to reduce the amount of campaigning/spending for the 2 phases of the election year (notably the Presidential years).

[Polybius]

60. But what about all the times they happened in September and October?

Why early now? Why not close to the election like they always are?

[BumRushDaShow]

61. Every Presidential cycle is different as the STATES control the primary election dates

and this year, all the primaries will be done "early".

In the "past", there were fewer states using "early voting" (PA only started "no excuse absentee mail voting" in 2020), so things have "changed", and that was a concern for waiting so late because voters may have already cast their ballots BEFORE a debate happened.

The fact that the DNC had a mostly "virtual" Convention in 2020 due to COVID was a "change".
The fact that one of the 2020 debates was cancelled due to a whiny baby infected with COVID was a "change".
The fact that they are dissing the Commission on Presidential Debates means that the organization has lost any credibility to at least one candidate who happens to be a (D), and that is a "change".

The second debate IS scheduled for September, so that still hearkens back to the past.

[CincyDem]

31. Inquiring minds want to know...

…who’s gonna play Trump in the debate prep???

[Doodley]

32. Trump will find an excuse to pull out, most likely saying it's fixed, or they've given Biden questions

in advance, or somebody involved is a Trump hater.

[Mark.b2]

58. Until he walks out on the stage, I wont believe he's going to show up...

he knows a beatdown is coming.

[Doodley]

59. Yep. Similarly, he boasted that he wanted to testify in court. Of course, that was BS too.

[Joinfortmill]

34. Is Trump going to debate from prison? Asking for America.

[Auggie]

39. I have ZERO confidence CNN is capable of producing anything but a carnival sideshow ...

because that's exactly what they want. A dumbed-down Jerry Springer-like super ratings event.

[jaxexpat]

41. You're probably right. But there's always a possibility that somebody in a position of responsibility will care.

In fact, that could be the sales pitch, the novelty. Imagine an actual, legitimate verbal exchange, guaranteed by mike switches and real-time pauses for reports from certified* instant fact checkers. Maybe someone will actually ask the best question, "why are you lying?"

* Whatever that means.

[liberalmediaaddict]

44. They'll probably start a countdown clock now

They'll hype this debate like it's the super bowl and put all the pressure on Biden to be perfect.

And most Americans probably won't watch because they don't have cable anymore.

[Auggie]

46. IMO they'll finger Biden on inflation and immigration, forcing him into a defensive posture

... while handing a victory to Orange Turd.

They'll waste time on bullshit like this instead of focusing on what's really at stake: democracy vs autocracy.

[Justice matters.]

40. Time to accuse criminal-defendant hitler2 wannabe of putting women's lives in danger...

straight to his disgusting orange face.

Also of sending his criminal goons to desecrate the Capitol building and injuring over a hundred LEOs while fighting like hell as he incited them.

Also of neglecting the COVID response that caused over a half-a-million preventable deaths by first dismantling President Obama's pandemic-response team followed by him knowing how deadly it was but saying he refused to take responsibility for the massacre.

Also of adding eight trillions to the debt... bragging he is the "king of debts" ...

Also of promising a infrastructure week every week that he never delivered.

Also of still refusing to release his tax returns after all these years and being under audit is not a valid reason to hide them.

Also of stealing National-Security top-secret military documents and refusing to return them back to the government...

Also... also... also... (the list of evil wrongdoings is too long to keep track) there won't be enough time in one debate!

[liberalmediaaddict]

43. This will be painful to watch

Not because President Biden will do a bad job but because Trump is repulsive to look at and torture to listen to.

Sitting through his 2016 and 2020 debates was miserable.

The upside is Americans tuning in will be reminded just how mentally unstable and verbally abusive Trump is.

Main challenge for Biden will be to stay calm when Trump goes after his son and record as President.

[Talitha]

45. Is the CNN debate considered the first of the two debates?

I couldn't watch the 'Covid' debate because Dump just creeps me out. But I'll watch these debates if 1) there's live fact-checking and 2) if the candidates are in soundproof booths with the mics on timers... time's up, your sound is cut and no one can hear you.

[BumRushDaShow]

47. Yes - I heard on my local radio news station this afternoon that this is the 1st and ABC is doing the 2nd one

and that will be in September.

[Talitha]

49. Thanks!

Just read somewhere here in DU:
CNN on June 27
ABC on Sept. 10
Thanks again!

[elleng]

54. My daughter's birthday!!!

Hope to have local strawberries (and wine, OR Black Russian!)

[LiberalFighter]

57. Trump should be in shackles on tv.