Trump campaign calls for early September debate ahead of early voting
Trump's campaign is requesting a fourth presidential debate to be scheduled for the first week of September in an attempt to appeal to voters who will be casting ballots early. Trump campaign representative Rudy Giuliani sent a letter on Wednesday to the Commission on Presidential Debates asking for the additional debate, which would come weeks before the three debates already scheduled for later in September and October.
"Simply put, the Commission's current approach is an outdated dinosaur and not reflective of voting realities in 2020," Giuliani said in his letter. The former New York mayor noted that North Carolina voters will begin casting their ballots on September 4. Forty states, as well as the District of Columbia, permit no-excuse early voting in some form.
By the time of the first scheduled debate on September 29, Giuliani said, "as many as eight million Americans in 16 states will have already started voting." As many as 20 million will have voted by the vice presidential debate on October 7, Giuliani continued, and as many 35 million Americans will have cast their ballots by the second presidential debate on October 15.
"By the time of the third and final presidential debate on October 22, 2020, at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, as many as 49 million Americans in 34 states will have already started voting," Giuliani wrote. "For a nation already deprived of a traditional campaign schedule because of the COVID-19 global pandemic, it makes no sense to also deprive so many Americans of the opportunity to see and hear the two competing visions for our country's future before millions of votes have been cast."
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I'm sure Giuliani and Trump have a lot of empathy for outdated dinosaurs.
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