President Donald Trump will hold a town hall next Thursday, Oct. 15, in lieu of the earlier proposed virtual debate with Democratic nominee Joe Biden, according to Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller.
Biden said on Thursday that he will participate in an ABC News town hall forum in Philadelphia on Oct. 15, the date originally slated for the second presidential debate.
Miller, in an appearance on Fox News on Friday, commented on Biden’s plans to appear on ABC while saying Trump’s town hall would be broadcast on “multiple networks.”
“[N]ext Thursday, we’ve already seen that Sleepy Joe is going to accept an invitation to join a different network, in the place of the town hall. He’s happy to do it with the ‘undecided voters’ that are essentially all Biden supporters,“ Miller said. ”We’re actually going to be on multiple networks at the same time. It hasn’t been announced yet. But I can give you that tease.”
The question of the second debate became a political hot potato after Trump said that he would not take part in a virtual debate, as originally proposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) with the stated aim “to protect the health and safety of all involved.”
“No I’m not going to waste my time on a virtual debate,” Trump said during an interview Thursday morning on Fox.
ABC News said Biden’s new event will be moderated by network anchor George Stephanopoulos who would take questions from voters.
Biden, meanwhile, said on Tuesday that the second debate should be canceled if Trump remains infected, noting that “too many people have been infected,” and that it’s a “very serious problem.”
