{"id":48939,"date":"2024-03-07T15:13:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T05:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=48939"},"modified":"2024-03-07T15:13:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T05:13:10","slug":"trump-challenges-biden-to-debate-anytime-anywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=48939","title":{"rendered":"Trump challenges Biden to debate &#8216;anytime, anywhere&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Donald Trump on Wednesday challenged Joe Biden to an election debate after the two men emerged from primary voting as the all-but-certain Republican and Democratic candidates in November&#8217;s US presidential vote.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is important, for the Good of our Country, that Joe Biden and I Debate Issues that are so vital to America, and the American People,&#8221; said Trump, who ducked out of every debate in the race for the Republican nomination.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am calling for Debates, ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE!&#8221; he wrote on his Truth Social platform.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, 77, sewed up the Republican nomination during the 15-state Super Tuesday voting bonanza as he saw off sole remaining challenger Nikki Haley in every state except Vermont. Biden will almost certainly be his opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was repeatedly challenged by Haley and his other primary rivals to show up for the Republicans&#8217; televised debates, but he refused, reckoning that he had nothing to gain from sharing a spotlight with lower-polling rivals.<\/p>\n<p>But he is polling within the margin of error against 81-year-old Biden and has reversed his position, saying he would even agree to debates hosted by the Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump on Wednesday challenged Joe Biden to an election debate after the two men emerged from primary voting as the all-but-certain Republican and Democratic candidates in November&#8217;s US presidential vote. &#8220;It is important, for the Good of our Country, that Joe Biden and I Debate Issues that are so vital to America, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[724],"class_list":["post-48939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-trump-challenges-biden-to-debate-anytime-anywhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}