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This combination of Sept. 29, 2020, file photos show President Donald Trump, left, and former Vice President Joe Biden during the first presidential debate at Case
Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Associated Press
Trump, Biden teams debate next debate: Next week? Never?

By ZEKE MILLER and WILL WEISSERT The whipsaw day began with an Trump then countered again, opponent and the moderator un-
WASHINGTON (AP) — The fate of announcement from the nonparti- agreeing to a debate on Oct. 22 able to take control.
the final debates between Presi- san Commission on Presidential De- — but only if face to face — and For Trump, who is recovering from
dent Donald Trump and Democrat bates, which said the next debate asking that a third contest be add- COVID-19 at the White House after
Joe Biden was thrown into uncer- on Oct. 15 would be held virtually. ed on Oct. 29, just before the elec- spending three days in the hospital,
tainty Thursday as the campaigns The commission cited health con- tion. But Biden rejected holding a the changes are an unwelcome
offered dueling proposals for mov- cerns following Trump's infection as debate that late in the campaign. disruption to his effort to shift focus
ing forward with a process that has the reason for changing the struc- The commission, which has the un- away from a virus that has killed
been upended by the president's ture of the town hall-style debate. enviable task of finding common more than 210,000 Americans this
coronavirus infection. Trump, who is eager to return to the ground between the competing year.
By Thursday afternoon, it was un- campaign trail despite uncertainty campaigns, did not weigh in on In an interview with Fox Business an-
clear when or how the next de- about his health, said he wouldn't any of the new proposals. The or- chor Maria Bartiromo shortly after
bates would proceed, or whether participate if the debate wasn't in ganization has come under scru- the commission’s announcement,
voters would even get to see the person. Biden suggested the event tiny already during this election af- Trump insisted he was in “great
two men running for the White be delayed a week until Oct. 22, ter the first debate between Trump shape” and called the idea of a
House on the same stage again which is when the third and final and Biden deteriorated, with the virtual debate a “joke.”
before Election Day. debate is already scheduled. president frequently interrupting his Continued on next page