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Who is a better candidate for Pakistan? Am hearing that the Pakistani govt privately wants the Trump administration to be re-elected.
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Got a feeling that Trump will lose the popular vote again, but will edge the electoral vote (closer than last time) and remain as President. Biden seems a polite enough chap, but a bit too weak and old for a presidential candidate.
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These clowns dont set important foriegn policies, they just do what they are told unless it will lose them power.
The whole so called democratic system is a corrupt and decietful. Donors choose who is elected and set out the policies. If the public in the west ever used a brain cell, they would see this and demand change.
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GOP is always on good terms with republicans
Most bad things happen to Pak under Democratic administration
For Pak americans it's a different story
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Yea for foreign policy GOP is probably a better bet for Pakistan , same can be said about other Muslim countries. For domestic its a toss up
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/30/inshallah-biden-debate-trump-taxes/
‘Inshallah’: The Arabic ‘fuggedaboudit’ Biden dropped to blast Trump on tax returns
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Best moment of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Debate2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Debate2020</a> /yelling fest, is Joe Biden dropping Arabic word “Inshallah” (God willing). <br><br>When Trump said “you’ll get to see” his taxes, Biden: “when? inshallah”(meaning never) <a href="https://t.co/6J18Rgn4pL">pic.twitter.com/6J18Rgn4pL</a></p>— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) <a href="https://twitter.com/Joyce_Karam/status/1311133827104935937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
didn't notice it during the debate.. haven't seen it used in this context though..
‘Inshallah’: The Arabic ‘fuggedaboudit’ Biden dropped to blast Trump on tax returns
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Best moment of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Debate2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Debate2020</a> /yelling fest, is Joe Biden dropping Arabic word “Inshallah” (God willing). <br><br>When Trump said “you’ll get to see” his taxes, Biden: “when? inshallah”(meaning never) <a href="https://t.co/6J18Rgn4pL">pic.twitter.com/6J18Rgn4pL</a></p>— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) <a href="https://twitter.com/Joyce_Karam/status/1311133827104935937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
didn't notice it during the debate.. haven't seen it used in this context though..
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It's commonly used in this context, it's like a sarcastic no.
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Never seen it in a sarcastic context... but maybe not near me.
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It's commonly used in a sarcastic context among Muslims to mean "never" or "maybe no".
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I mean it's not sarcasticlly used but people do unfortunately use it to say no (even though the literal meaning of the word is different)
I say it to my kids all the time when they ask for something. You shut them up with "Inshallah". That closes the argument.
The younger one then goes into a temper tantrum "No Inshallah!, I want this now
"It closes the argument. When you say Inshallah, it mean God Willing. If it is meant to happen, it will happen. But if it doesn't, it is not my fault.
I had a friend from Egypt, they had a term I.B.M. --- Inshallah, Bookrah, Maalish.
When you go over to a government office to get something done, the guy will say come back tomorrow and Inshallah we will take care it very courteously. When you go over tomorrow, he will be a little curt and say bookrah which roughly translates tomorrow. When you show up on the third or fourth day he says Maalish very disdainly. I was told an Egyptian Gov. Employee's memory goes back 2 days. Anything beyond that is lost
. So Inshallah Bookrah Maaslish takes care of the issue 
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I say inshallah when someone asks me to do something I don’t want to do or won’t do but cannot explicitly say no to
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The commission that oversees US presidential debates says it will change the format to ensure the remaining two encounters between Donald Trump and Joe Biden are more orderly.
One new measure could be to cut the microphones if the candidates try to interrupt each other, US media report.
The announcement follows Tuesday's ill-tempered debate that descended into squabbling, bickering and insults.
President Trump's team has already criticised the commission's plans.
The tone and tactics of the first presidential debate were criticised across the US and around the world.
One new measure could be to cut the microphones if the candidates try to interrupt each other, US media report.
The announcement follows Tuesday's ill-tempered debate that descended into squabbling, bickering and insults.
President Trump's team has already criticised the commission's plans.
The tone and tactics of the first presidential debate were criticised across the US and around the world.
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Presidential debate: Rules to change after Trump-Biden spat
The commission that oversees US presidential debates says it will change the format to ensure the remaining two encounters between Donald Trump and Joe Biden are more orderly.
One new measure could be to cut the microphones if the candidates try to interrupt each other, US media report.
The announcement follows Tuesday's ill-tempered debate that descended into squabbling, bickering and insults.
President Trump's team has already criticised the commission's plans.
The tone and tactics of the first presidential debate were criticised across the US and around the world.
The fallout, however, has also been dominated by Mr Trump's refusal in the debate to explicitly condemn a far-right group called the Proud Boys.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54366618
The commission that oversees US presidential debates says it will change the format to ensure the remaining two encounters between Donald Trump and Joe Biden are more orderly.
One new measure could be to cut the microphones if the candidates try to interrupt each other, US media report.
The announcement follows Tuesday's ill-tempered debate that descended into squabbling, bickering and insults.
President Trump's team has already criticised the commission's plans.
The tone and tactics of the first presidential debate were criticised across the US and around the world.
The fallout, however, has also been dominated by Mr Trump's refusal in the debate to explicitly condemn a far-right group called the Proud Boys.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54366618
Read this up. According to the Ex-Watergate prosecutor who investigated Nixon, Trump is not just being creative in Tax avoidance but committing tax fraud.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-ivanka-trump-tax-fraud_n_5f7292dfc5b6f622a0c375f9
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NYtimes surely with its due diligence were careful about their wording, do you think NYtimes wouldn't had said it as tax evasion if they could? They have the source... what do you think stopped them from going that far?
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Watched this back a second time today, and it wasn’t as much of a train wreck as it felt the first time (although still bad). Biden did probably come across better on the whole, and in the last third of the debate he became quite articulate. Trump just rambled all the way through as per usual.
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I suggest post this thing on US election thread cause there me and [MENTION=732]Gilly[/MENTION] had a chat on how it's not "really" tax fraud
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It closes the argument. When you say Inshallah, it mean God Willing. If it is meant to happen, it will happen. But if it doesn’t, it is not my fault.
I had a friend from Egypt, they had a term I.B.M. — Inshallah, Bookrah, Maalish.
When you go over to a government office to get something done, the guy will say come back tomorrow and Inshallah we will take care it very courteously. When you go over tomorrow, he will be a little curt and say bookrah which roughly translates tomorrow. When you show up on the third or fourth day he says Maalish very disdainly. I was told an Egyptian Gov. Employee’s memory goes back 2 days. Anything beyond that is lost
I can confirm that your Egyptian friend was right
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US Vice-President Mike Pence and his Democratic challenger Kamala Harris will be separated by plexiglass during their head-to-head debate this week.
The candidates will also be seated at least 12ft (3.6m) apart for Wednesday's event in Salt Lake City, Utah, to help limit the risk of Covid transmission.
It comes after President Donald Trump and several others close to him tested positive for coronavirus.
Both vice-presidential candidates have recently tested negative.
Information about the event released by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) on Monday said "plexiglass will be used as part of the CPD's overall approach to health and safety".
https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54430227
The candidates will also be seated at least 12ft (3.6m) apart for Wednesday's event in Salt Lake City, Utah, to help limit the risk of Covid transmission.
It comes after President Donald Trump and several others close to him tested positive for coronavirus.
Both vice-presidential candidates have recently tested negative.
Information about the event released by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) on Monday said "plexiglass will be used as part of the CPD's overall approach to health and safety".
https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54430227
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Biden and Trump set for election rematch after securing party nominations
US President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump have both passed the delegate thresholds to clinch their parties' nominations for the election in November.
Four states, one American territory and Democrats living abroad held their primaries on Tuesday.
The result means US voters face a rematch of the 2020 presidential election in eight months' time.
The nominations will be made official at party conventions this summer.
The 81-year-old president said on Tuesday evening that he was "honoured" voters had backed his re-election bid "in a moment when the threat Trump poses is greater than ever".
Citing positive economic trends, he asserted the US was "in the middle of a comeback" but faced challenges to its future as a democracy, as well as from those seeking to pass abortion restrictions and cut social programmes.
"I believe that the American people will choose to keep us moving into the future," Mr Biden said in a statement from his campaign.
Incumbency gave Mr Biden a natural advantage and he faced no serious challengers for the Democratic nomination.
Despite persistent concerns from voters that his age limits his ability to perform the duties of the presidency, the party apparatus rallied around him.
Meanwhile, Mr Trump, 77, remains very popular with the Republican voter base, which has propelled him to victory in primary after primary over well-funded rivals.
His campaign for a second term in the White House has zeroed in on stricter immigration laws, including a pledge to "seal the border" and implement "record-setting" deportations.
Mr Trump has also vowed to fight crime, boost domestic energy production, tax foreign imports, end the war in Ukraine and resume an "America first" approach to global affairs.
Tuesday night's results do not come as a shock, as both men have dominated their races so far.
Both their re-nominations seemed all but predetermined, despite polling that indicates Americans are dissatisfied with the prospect of another showdown between Mr Biden and Mr Trump in November.
The US presidential primaries and caucuses are a state-by-state competition to secure the most party delegates.
The Democrats and the Republicans have slightly different rules for their primaries, but the process is essentially the same.
Each state is allocated a certain share of party delegates, which are awarded either as a whole to the winning candidate or proportionally, based on the results.
A Republican candidate must secure at least 1,215 of their party's delegates during the primary season to win their presidential nomination, while a Democrat must secure 1,968.
On Tuesday, Republicans held primaries in Mississippi, Georgia and Washington State, and a caucus in Hawaii.
Democrats, meanwhile, held primaries in the states of Georgia, Washington and Mississippi, as well as in the Northern Mariana Islands and for Democrats living abroad.
Mr Biden and Mr Trump's main competitors had dropped out before Tuesday's primary contests, so the results had been all but certain.
Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, Mr Trump's last remaining rival, dropped out earlier this month after losing 14 states to Mr Trump on Super Tuesday.
Though several more states have yet to hold their primary contests, with Mr Trump and Mr Biden over the delegate threshold, the 2024 general election is now effectively under way.
The US presidential election will be held on 5 November 2024.
BBC
US President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump have both passed the delegate thresholds to clinch their parties' nominations for the election in November.
Four states, one American territory and Democrats living abroad held their primaries on Tuesday.
The result means US voters face a rematch of the 2020 presidential election in eight months' time.
The nominations will be made official at party conventions this summer.
The 81-year-old president said on Tuesday evening that he was "honoured" voters had backed his re-election bid "in a moment when the threat Trump poses is greater than ever".
Citing positive economic trends, he asserted the US was "in the middle of a comeback" but faced challenges to its future as a democracy, as well as from those seeking to pass abortion restrictions and cut social programmes.
"I believe that the American people will choose to keep us moving into the future," Mr Biden said in a statement from his campaign.
Incumbency gave Mr Biden a natural advantage and he faced no serious challengers for the Democratic nomination.
Despite persistent concerns from voters that his age limits his ability to perform the duties of the presidency, the party apparatus rallied around him.
Meanwhile, Mr Trump, 77, remains very popular with the Republican voter base, which has propelled him to victory in primary after primary over well-funded rivals.
His campaign for a second term in the White House has zeroed in on stricter immigration laws, including a pledge to "seal the border" and implement "record-setting" deportations.
Mr Trump has also vowed to fight crime, boost domestic energy production, tax foreign imports, end the war in Ukraine and resume an "America first" approach to global affairs.
Tuesday night's results do not come as a shock, as both men have dominated their races so far.
Both their re-nominations seemed all but predetermined, despite polling that indicates Americans are dissatisfied with the prospect of another showdown between Mr Biden and Mr Trump in November.
The US presidential primaries and caucuses are a state-by-state competition to secure the most party delegates.
The Democrats and the Republicans have slightly different rules for their primaries, but the process is essentially the same.
Each state is allocated a certain share of party delegates, which are awarded either as a whole to the winning candidate or proportionally, based on the results.
A Republican candidate must secure at least 1,215 of their party's delegates during the primary season to win their presidential nomination, while a Democrat must secure 1,968.
On Tuesday, Republicans held primaries in Mississippi, Georgia and Washington State, and a caucus in Hawaii.
Democrats, meanwhile, held primaries in the states of Georgia, Washington and Mississippi, as well as in the Northern Mariana Islands and for Democrats living abroad.
Mr Biden and Mr Trump's main competitors had dropped out before Tuesday's primary contests, so the results had been all but certain.
Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, Mr Trump's last remaining rival, dropped out earlier this month after losing 14 states to Mr Trump on Super Tuesday.
Though several more states have yet to hold their primary contests, with Mr Trump and Mr Biden over the delegate threshold, the 2024 general election is now effectively under way.
The US presidential election will be held on 5 November 2024.
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Biden roasts Trump at Washington press dinner
US President Joe Biden joked about Donald Trump and his own age at an annual media dinner on Saturday — before unloading deadly serious criticisms of his rival in November’s election.
“One candidate’s too old and mentally unfit to be president,” the 81-year-old Democrat quipped at the Gridiron Club in Washington. “The other guy’s me.”
Democrat Biden was making his first speech as president at the annual white tie gala for the US media and political elite, an event that Republican former president Trump addressed in 2018.
Biden is trailing in a number of polls and faces voters concerns about his age, which he has tried to address by highlighting 77-year-old Trump’s recent verbal slip-ups.
In his remarks, Biden took a swipe at Republicans in Congress who have launched an impeachment inquiry into his son’s business dealings, saying they would “rather fail at impeachment than succeed at anything else.”
He added that Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, sitting at the head table with Biden on the eve of St. Patrick’s Day “took one look at Congress and he asked for another Guinness.”
Varadkar and Biden both pushed during a meeting at the White House on Friday for Republicans in Congress to stop blocking military aid for Ukraine to fight Russia’s invasion.
But Biden then returned to Trump, saying that the Democrats’ election campaign would show how they rebuilt the US economy after the Covid-19 pandemic “without encouraging the American people to inject bleach.”
He was referring to an incident when Trump, as president, asked a top medical adviser whether virus victims could be injected with disinfectant to cure them.
“Look, I wish these were jokes, but they’re not,” added Biden.
“Democracy and freedom are literally under attack. Putin’s on the march in Europe. My predecessor bows down to him and says, ‘Do whatever the hell you want.’“
Noting that Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, a strong critic of Russia, was also at his table, he added “We will not bow down, they will not bow down and I will not bow down.”
Biden added that Trump’s false claims to have won the 2020 election, and the January 6 2021 Capitol assault by pro-Trump rioters, showed there was “poison coursing through the veins of our democracy.”
He also backed journalists whom Trump has repeatedly attacked, adding: “You are not the enemy of the people. You are a pillar of any free society.”
In his own appearance at the Gridiron Club six years ago, Trump did trade unusually playful digs with the Washington press corps and also joked about North Korea and his own leadership style.
The Gridiron dinner — held behind closed doors with no photos allowed — sees Washington’s elite unwind for a night of self-deprecatory humor which includes costumed members performing a song.
SOURCE: https://www.arabnews.com/node/2478021/world
US President Joe Biden joked about Donald Trump and his own age at an annual media dinner on Saturday — before unloading deadly serious criticisms of his rival in November’s election.
“One candidate’s too old and mentally unfit to be president,” the 81-year-old Democrat quipped at the Gridiron Club in Washington. “The other guy’s me.”
Democrat Biden was making his first speech as president at the annual white tie gala for the US media and political elite, an event that Republican former president Trump addressed in 2018.
Biden is trailing in a number of polls and faces voters concerns about his age, which he has tried to address by highlighting 77-year-old Trump’s recent verbal slip-ups.
In his remarks, Biden took a swipe at Republicans in Congress who have launched an impeachment inquiry into his son’s business dealings, saying they would “rather fail at impeachment than succeed at anything else.”
He added that Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, sitting at the head table with Biden on the eve of St. Patrick’s Day “took one look at Congress and he asked for another Guinness.”
Varadkar and Biden both pushed during a meeting at the White House on Friday for Republicans in Congress to stop blocking military aid for Ukraine to fight Russia’s invasion.
But Biden then returned to Trump, saying that the Democrats’ election campaign would show how they rebuilt the US economy after the Covid-19 pandemic “without encouraging the American people to inject bleach.”
He was referring to an incident when Trump, as president, asked a top medical adviser whether virus victims could be injected with disinfectant to cure them.
“Look, I wish these were jokes, but they’re not,” added Biden.
“Democracy and freedom are literally under attack. Putin’s on the march in Europe. My predecessor bows down to him and says, ‘Do whatever the hell you want.’“
Noting that Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, a strong critic of Russia, was also at his table, he added “We will not bow down, they will not bow down and I will not bow down.”
Biden added that Trump’s false claims to have won the 2020 election, and the January 6 2021 Capitol assault by pro-Trump rioters, showed there was “poison coursing through the veins of our democracy.”
He also backed journalists whom Trump has repeatedly attacked, adding: “You are not the enemy of the people. You are a pillar of any free society.”
In his own appearance at the Gridiron Club six years ago, Trump did trade unusually playful digs with the Washington press corps and also joked about North Korea and his own leadership style.
The Gridiron dinner — held behind closed doors with no photos allowed — sees Washington’s elite unwind for a night of self-deprecatory humor which includes costumed members performing a song.
SOURCE: https://www.arabnews.com/node/2478021/world
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Trump accuses Biden of running 'Gestapo administration'
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump accused Democratic rival President Joe Biden of running a "Gestapo administration" in a private address to donors in which he also attacked prosecutors involved in his criminal indictments, according to a recording heard by U.S. media outlets.
Trump, whose own rhetoric has drawn accusations of fascist tendencies from civil rights groups and other critics, made the comparison with the Nazi police in Germany's World War Two regime at a donor retreat Saturday night at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
The comments came after Trump reprised his complaint that the multiple indictments against him were politically motivated. He had just concluded 11 days of a New York hush money trial in which he is charged with falsifying business records to cover up a $130,000 payment made to a porn star.
"These people are running a Gestapo administration," Trump said, according to an audio recording heard by the New York Times and the Washington Post. "And it’s the only thing they have. And it’s the only way they’re going to win, in their opinion, and it’s actually killing them. But it doesn’t bother me."
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump accused Democratic rival President Joe Biden of running a "Gestapo administration" in a private address to donors in which he also attacked prosecutors involved in his criminal indictments, according to a recording heard by U.S. media outlets.
Trump, whose own rhetoric has drawn accusations of fascist tendencies from civil rights groups and other critics, made the comparison with the Nazi police in Germany's World War Two regime at a donor retreat Saturday night at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
The comments came after Trump reprised his complaint that the multiple indictments against him were politically motivated. He had just concluded 11 days of a New York hush money trial in which he is charged with falsifying business records to cover up a $130,000 payment made to a porn star.
"These people are running a Gestapo administration," Trump said, according to an audio recording heard by the New York Times and the Washington Post. "And it’s the only thing they have. And it’s the only way they’re going to win, in their opinion, and it’s actually killing them. But it doesn’t bother me."
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Biden, Trump agree to presidential debates in June, September
President Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, are set to face off in presidential debates in June and September -- hours after Biden on Wednesday challenged the former president to two debates, which Trump said he was "ready and willing" to do.
CNN announced it will host the debate on June 27 in Atlanta, Georgia at 9 p.m. It's the first of at least two debates Biden pushed for under new terms that deviate from ones set by the Commission on Presidential Debates. Both have agreed to an ABC News debate on Sept. 10.
On Wednesday morning, Biden shared he had accepted CNN's invitation to debate on June 27 -- challenging Trump to join. In accepting the CNN debate invitation, Trump's campaign pushed for more than two debates.
"We propose a debate in June, a debate in July, a debate in August, and a debate in September, in addition to the Vice Presidential debate," said Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles, with the Trump campaign, said in a memo. "Additional dates will allow voters to have maximum exposure to the records and future visions of each candidate."
Biden announced through his campaign that he is bucking the decades-old tradition of fall meetings organized by the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates -- and instead called on Trump to join him for two televised presidential debates in June and September organized by news organizations.
"Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020. Since then, he hasn't shown up for a debate," Biden said in a video message his campaign posted to social media. "Now he's acting like he wants to debate me again. Well, make my day, pal."
Trump, who skipped all four Republican National Committee-sanctioned 2024 primary election debates and pulled out of one of his three debates with Biden in 2020, said in response that he was willing to debate Biden during the proposed dates, but said there should be more than two debates.
"I am Ready and Willing to Debate Crooked Joe at the two proposed times in June and September. I would strongly recommend more than two debates," Trump posted on his social media platform.
He added, "Just tell me when, I'll be there. 'Let's get ready to Rumble!!!'"
The Biden campaign outlined some conditions for the debates -- though it is not yet clear if all will be adhered to for the CNN debate in June.
The campaign said that the first debate should be hosted by "any broadcast organization that hosted a Republican Primary debate in 2016 in which Donald Trump participated, and a Democratic primary debate in 2020 in which President Biden participated -- so neither campaign can assert that the sponsoring organization is obviously unacceptable," Biden Campaign Chair Jen O'Malley Dillon wrote in a letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates, obtained by ABC News.
Also, "the moderator(s) should be selected by the broadcast host from among their regular personnel, so as to avoid a 'ringer' or partisan."
The Biden campaign said debates have been "structured like an entertainment spectacle and not a serious exchange of ideas that reflect the enormous stakes of the election." With that in mind, the campaign said the debate should not have an in-person audience full of "raucous or disruptive partisans and donors, who consume valuable debate time with noisy spectacles of approval or jeering," Dillon wrote in the letter.
"As was the case with the original televised debates in 1960, a television studio with just the candidates and moderators is a better, more cost-efficient way to proceed: focused solely on the interests of voters," Dillon wrote.
The Biden campaign said all debates should be 1:1 -- meaning it would bar Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., an independent candidate, from participating.
Addressing one of their cited issues with the Commission on Presidential Debates, the campaign said, "There should be firm time limits for answers, and alternate turns to speak -- so that the time is evenly divided and we have an exchange of views, not a spectacle of mutual interruption," and that a candidate's microphone should only be on when it is their turn to speak.
Both the Trump and Biden campaigns has expressed concern with the organization of the debates by the Commission on Presidential Debates -- one slated for September and two planned for October -- saying that the scheduled debates don't conclude until well after early voting has already started.
Earlier this month, the Commission on Presidential Debates pushed back, saying that, "as it always does, the CPD considered multiple factors in selecting debate dates in order to make them accessible by the American public," including religious and federal holidays, early voting, and the dates on which individual states close their ballots.
On Sept. 16, the day of the first debate, Pennsylvania voters can receive, complete and return ballots at their county boards of elections, CPD notes. Minnesota is one of the first states to offer in-person early voting, and voters there can begin to cast ballots on Friday, Sept. 20.
Additionally, the Biden campaign proposed a vice-presidential debate in late July after the Republican National Convention.
Biden, Trump agree to presidential debates in June, September
President Joe Biden on Wednesday challenged Donald Trump to participate in two 2024 presidential debates.
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Scenez from the must awaited debate between the 2 potential candidates to be the president of US.
