Major TV Networks To Band Together In Bid To Get Trump-Biden Debate On The Books

America’s top TV networks plan to issue an open letter asking for President Joe Biden and Donald Trump to participate in a televised election debate, according to two sources with direct knowledge who spoke to The New York Times.

The Times obtained a draft version of a letter endorsed by ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox News, which reads, “We, the undersigned national news organizations, urge the presumptive presidential nominees to publicly commit to participating in general election debates before November’s election.”

According to the Times, the letter has yet to be finalized and the networks are hoping to get other major news organizations to sign on.

Word of the yet-to-be published plea comes while Biden has expressed doubts about debating presumptive Republican nominee Trump, despite the fact September and October events have already been scheduled by the nonpartisan organizer, the Commission on Presidential Debates.