Pressure builds on Biden to debate Trump: Ex-president's campaign demands the primetime showdowns are earlier as five networks urge them to hit the stage and bring them millions of viewers

The pressure is building on President Joe Biden to agree to debate Donald Trump as the former president called for earlier engagements and the television networks are urging the candidates to hit the stage.

'While the Commission on Presidential Debates has already announced three presidential debates and a vice-presidential debate to occur later this year, we are in favor of these debates beginning much earlier,' Trump co-campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita sent Thursday to The Commission on Presidential Debates. 

In the letter, obtained by Fox News, the co-managers note that 'voting is beginning earlier and earlier, and as we saw in 2020, tens of millions of Americans had already voted by the time of the first debate.'