President Joe Biden said Friday he is “happy” to debate former President Donald Trump, though did not specify as to when.
The comment was made during a one-on-one interview with radio host Howard Stern, who asked if the president had plans to debate his 2024 opponent.
“I am somewhere,” Biden responded, the first time he’s indicated he will debate Trump this election cycle. “I don’t know when. I’m happy to debate him.”
After Biden’s remark on Stern’s show on Sirius/XM, Trump’s campaign manager Chris LaCivita responded on social media.
“Ok,” he wrote on X, “let’s set it up !”
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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, has urged Biden to participate in the three general debates scheduled for this fall.
However, the Biden campaign has expressed concern with the organization of these debates by the Commission on Presidential Debates, signaling that the nonpartisan group that has sponsored the events since the 1980s has been unclear about their ability to administer a “fair” debate with Trump.
In April 2022, the Republican National Committee also voted unanimously to withdraw from the Commission on Presidential Debates.
During the interview, Biden became very personal with the host. The president ran through his life story, touching on how his stuttering affected his life.
“You realize how humiliating it is. So … it taught me to understand what other people are going through,” Biden said when referencing how his stutter helped make him more compassionate.
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