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Since his return from Walter-Reed military hospital on Monday, October 5, Donald Trump has continued to multiply puzzling announcements. During a long telephone interview with Fox Business on Thursday, the outgoing president refused to participate in the second debate with Joe Biden scheduled for October 15. He took this decision to protest against the modalities of his organization adopted by the Presidential Debates Commission, a bipartisan institution. Traditionally devoted to questions asked by Americans selected by this commission, this debate had to be organized remotely because of the contamination of Donald Trump by the coronavirus.
“I’m not going to waste my time in a virtual debate. This is not the point of a debate, you sit behind the computer and you debate, ridiculous. And then they cut you off when they want ”, commented the president. The idea of allowing the moderator to cut the microphone of a candidate who does not respect the rules decided by the commission, in agreement with the campaign teams, was raised after the first debate, polluted by the incessant interruptions of the president.
At first, Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Bill Stepien, who observes a quarantine because of his contamination by Covid-19, supported his decision, specifying that he was going to organize a meeting instead. Four hours later, he seemed to change his mind by putting the presidential debates committee on notice to postpone the debate scheduled for October 15 by one week, and to add a third one on October 29, five days before the poll. Bill Stepien accused the same commission of playing the game of the democ candidate, failure, Joe Biden, judging “Extremely suspicious” the announcement of the new rules, which he said aimed at “Distract from total victory” Vice President Mike Pence facing Democratic running mate Kamala Harris the day before.
In a third statement released Thursday evening, the campaign manager finally argued for guarantees presented by White House doctor Sean Conley to demand that the commission organize the October 15 debate as initially planned, in the presence of the two candidates.
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