- Trump was absent from the Republican primary debates this year
- Biden camp said they ‘assume’ Trump will be in Atlanta tonight
President Joe Biden’s campaign teased the possibility of Donald Trump not showing up for tonight’s high-stakes presidential debate, with millions of people set to tune in to the scheduled encounter, prompting a furious reaction from Trump and his camp.
‘Listen, I think the Trump team is playing games that we’ve always seen them play, right? They like to use debates as an entertainment process. They like to complain about debates. Sometimes they skip debates,” Biden campaign communications director Michael Tyler said on CNN, which is hosting the debate.
‘The president will be there tonight. “We still take it for granted that Donald Trump will be there too,” he said. sayingplanning once again the seed of doubt.
The Trump campaign immediately rejected the idea when contacted by DailyMail.com.
“Of course” he will appear, responded Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung. ‘The Biden campaign just showed how desperate they are. “Michael Tyler should be fired for his incompetence,” he said.
Trump raged on his Truth Social site over Tyler’s argument: ‘JOE BIDEN IS A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY AND A THREAT TO THE SURVIVAL AND EXISTENCE OF OUR COUNTRY ITSELF!!!’
‘Biden’s policies are a NIGHTMARE FOR WOMEN when it comes to borders and immigration!’ she wrote, after Tyler accused him of using ‘games’ to deflect from race issues.
Tyler said Biden wanted to talk about “the threat that Donald Trump poses to our democracy, which was definitely seen on January 6, but every day, again, at his MAGA rallies, where he promises to pardon the January 6 insurrectionists.” . , the vast majority of the American people again disagree with that.’
Trump also complained about Tyler appearing on television. ‘WHY IS FOXNEWS MEETING SO MANY BIDEN PEOPLE, LIKE MICHAEL TYLER, BIDEN’S COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR, WHO SPENT LIES WITH VERY LITTLE REJECTION?’ Trump wrote in another post in all caps. ‘AMAZING!!!’
Biden campaign communications director Michael Tyler suggested Donald Trump might not show up for tonight’s debate.
By all indications, Trump will be in Atlanta tonight for the race. His campaign has released information about the arrival of his private Boeing 757, which he calls “Trump Force One.”
Tryler said Trump will treat the debate like a “game,” after previous contests in which he repeatedly interrupted Biden. In 2020, he brought a Hunter Biden associate. In 2016, he brought Clinton’s rape accusers to the debate.
But listen, the fact of the matter is that they play these games because they know the issues that matter. To the majority of the American people, Donald Trump is a loser, right?’ he said, seeming to try to pick on Trump.
Trump skipped all Republican primary debates, in a decision that protected him from being confronted head-on by his critics. The move also had the effect of diminishing Republican rivals, although some former contenders have made it to his vice presidential short list.
He also refused to participate in a Zoom debate with Biden in 2020 after the second debate had to be canceled when Trump tested positive for COVID-19.
“Of course” Trump will be there, his campaign responded
Biden’s campaign pushed for an early debate, in a move that could allow them to restart the race. Trump’s camp wanted a chance to confront the 81-year-old current president on stage.
Trump’s team took the opportunity to stand on the same stage as Biden, 81, when he accepted, in a negotiation that took place in public and private and that moved the debates away from a decades-long relationship with a bipartisan commission on presidential debates. . .
Tyler dodged when CNN’s Kate Bolduan asked if Biden needed to “win” the debate against Trump, 78. As of today, a new New York Times/Siena College poll showed him trailing by four points nationally.
‘The president is ready. The president is excited. The president knows that all he has to do is present the American people with the fundamental choice in this election.” He said Biden would be on stage fighting for the American people and Trump would be “fighting for himself.”