Joe Biden threw down the gauntlet on Wednesday, directly challenging former President Donald Trump – his expected 2024 rival — to not one, but two debates. Within hours, CNN announced via press release that it would be hosting the first debate in the presidential rematch on June 27 in the key battleground state of Georgia — where Trump remains under criminal indictment for attempting to interfere with the results of the 2020 election.
lmao
Participating candidates will be required to “appear on a sufficient number of state ballots to reach the 270 electoral vote threshold to win the presidency prior to the eligibility deadline” — meaning that potential third-party candidate RFK Jr. will likely be unable to take the stage.
Gonna be interesting to see whose amphetamines wear off first
Why oh god WHY does it have to be so fucking EARLY??? They usually(if not always?) have general election pres debates in September/october
we can’t get any god damn rest before this horseshit
cant have the cable watchers tuning out of the election cycle. it has to be a big stupid spectacle or people might get ideas about how democratic it really is