Headline Roundup • October 8th, 2020
Trump Won't Participate in Virtual Debate with Biden
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President Donald Trump vowed Thursday not to participate in next week's debate with Democrat nominee Joe Biden after organizers announced will take place virtually because of the president's diagnosis of COVID-19.
"The commission changed the debate style and that's not acceptable to us," Trump told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo shortly after the debate change was announced.
"I beat him in the first debate, I beat him easily," adding that he expected to "beat him in the second debate also."
"I'm not going to do a virtual debate," Trump added....
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will not participate in the second presidential debate with Joe Biden after the Commission on Presidential Debates said the event will be held virtually in the wake of the President's positive coronavirus diagnosis.
"I am not going to do a virtual debate," Trump said on Fox Business. "I am not going to waste my time on a virtual debate."
Biden's campaign on Thursday swiftly agreed to the virtual format. But Trump's comment throws the debate into question after the commission took the significant...
President Trump said Thursday that he would not participate in a virtual debate, minutes after the organizing commission announced that next week's event would be virtual to protect the health of those involved.
“I’m not going to do a virtual debate,” Trump, who was diagnosed last week with the coronavirus, said in an interview on Fox Business, claiming the Commission on Presidential Debates is “trying to protect” Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
“I’m not going to waste my time with a virtual debate. That’s not what debating is all about. You...
