As Democrats look toward an expected rematch between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden later this year, some are warning that agreeing to debates are a bad idea.
“I would think twice about it,” Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second-highest ranking Democratic senator, recently told The Hill. “It’s just an opportunity for him to display his extremism.”
Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware, a close ally of Biden, told the outlet that Trump’s conduct at the 2020 debates and the former president’s refusal to debate his GOP primary opponents “would make a pretty strong case for not dignifying him as a candidate by sharing a debate stage.”
Trump, meanwhile, has shown an eagerness to debate Biden that he hasn’t shown toward his rivals, such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis or former Ambassador Nikki Haley.
“Oh, will I look forward to that,” Trump recently told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt. “How about 10 debates?”
That’s despite the Republican National Committee voting in 2022 to withdraw from debates held by the Commission on Presidential Debates, a nonpartisan organization that conservatives have accused of bias.
Typically, the commission is the sole organizer of presidential and vice presidential debates.
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