WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden says he won’t skip debates with President Donald Trump this fall, vowing he’ll use the opportunity to confront his rival and be a “fact checker on the floor.”
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Biden said Thursday there’s no question the debates will take place, after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters earlier in the day that she didn’t think Biden should debate the president at all. Pelosi said she knows she disagrees with Biden on this, but she doesn’t think he should “legitimize a conversation” with Trump.
PELOSI: “Don’t tell anybody I told you this— especially don’t tell Joe Biden. I don’t think there should be any debates…”
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 27, 2020
The Democratic nominee has repeatedly said he is eager to take on the president.
“Here’s the deal with bullies, I understand how they work,” Biden said on CNN. “And I’m going to play by the rules of the debate commission and we’re going to have a debate.”
In a separate interview on MSNBC, Biden said he’s going to be a “fact checker on the floor” during the debates and he thinks the media will fact check Trump as well.
Joe Biden says he will debate President Trump “as long as the commission continues down the straight and narrow..”
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 27, 2020
Pelosi said she believes Trump will “probably act in a way that is beneath the dignity of the presidency” and “belittle what the debates are supposed to be about.” She said a 2016 debate between Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton was “disgraceful” as Trump stood close behind Clinton as she spoke, moving into her camera angle. Pelosi says Trump was “stalking” Clinton and should have been told to move away.
Instead, Pelosi suggests the two candidates have individual events where they take questions.
“Let that be a conversation with the American people,” she said. “Not an exercise in skullduggery.”
The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates recently rejected a request from the Trump campaign either to add a fourth debate or move up the three already scheduled. Trump’s campaign said 16 states will have started voting by the time of the first debate on Sept. 29.
Trump is set to accept the Republican presidential nomination Thursday night.
Hey Biden Bum !!
Fact checking ??
Get out of your filthy cellar and condemn the destruction and murder that’s brutalizing my city. Are you going to pay for our destroyed retail stores ??
can’t wait to his DEMENTIA live……………………
will knock him out without a single punch but with 47 years of disaster in public life………….
Crazy Biden and his evil dems.
Hate this county.
Support burning this county.
We had 8 years of hell under the king of evil obumer harasha.
You better be careful what you ask for. I know Joe Biden. I fought along side him on the killing fields of Vietnam and Laos. Joe is one tough son of a gun. He never backed down from a firefight. This guy was jumping out of Bell UH-1 Huey helicopters directly in the line of fire. He makes Rambo look like a little kitten. Me and Joe are alive to talk about it. Trump can say goodbye now already.
Senile Joe will get all confused if he shows up.Better listen to Nancy