The second debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden for the November presidential election, initially scheduled for Thursday, October 15, was canceled by the independent commission responsible for organizing these confrontations, she said, Friday, October 9.
After the announcement of the US president’s Covid-19 infection, the committee had, for health reasons, transformed the format of this debate, which was to be held in Miami (Florida), into a virtual meeting. A formula categorically refused by Donald Trump.
“It is now obvious that there will be no debate on October 15th”, the commission wrote in a statement, saying now “Focus attention on preparations for the last presidential debate scheduled for October 22”, in Nashville, Tennessee.
“Shameful”
During the debate which has just been canceled, voters this time had to ask questions directly to the two candidates – the previous confrontation between the two men as well as the one which had seen their running mates oppose (the senator of California Kamala Harris for Joe Biden and Vice President Mike Pence for Donald Trump) had been moderated by a single moderator.
The current tenant of the White House “Obviously does not have the courage to answer for its record to voters at the same time as” Joe Biden, reacted Andrew Bates, a spokesperson for the Democratic candidate. “It is shameful that Donald Trump dodged the only debate in which Americans could ask questions, but it is not a surprise”, he then added to Agence France-Presse (AFP).
After the announcement of his outfit in virtual form, Donald Trump’s team accused the organizers of the debate of wanting to avoid Joe Biden a direct confrontation with the Republican candidate. She demanded that the October 15 confrontation be postponed in a final meeting on October 29, just five days before the ballot – something Joe Biden’s team refused.
The two men have already clashed for nearly an hour and a half during a chaotic first debate, during which they kept cutting each other off on September 29 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Donald Trump let it be known earlier today that he would speak on Saturday in front of supporters gathered at the presidential residence, his first public appearance since the end of his hospitalization due to the Covid-19. Then the presidential candidate’s campaign team announced that its first meeting since the announcement of his diagnosis would take place Monday in Sanford, Florida.
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