President Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, are set to face off in an ABC News presidential debate in September.
Trump and Biden said they have both agreed to a prime-time debate at ABC News studios on Sept. 10.
Before that, they will participate in a CNN debate on June 27 in Atlanta. The debates were scheduled hours after Biden on Wednesday challenged the former president to two debates, which Trump said he was “ready and willing” to do, but pushed for more than two.
“We propose a debate in June, a debate in July, a debate in August, and a debate in September, in addition to the Vice Presidential debate,” said Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles, with the Trump campaign, said in a memo. “Additional dates will allow voters to have maximum exposure to the records and future visions of each candidate.”
Trump said on his social media platform that he accepted an invitation from Fox News to debate on Oct. 2. Biden has not yet weighed in of he would participate in that debate.
Biden announced Wednesday morning through his campaign that he is bucking the decades-old tradition of fall meetings organized by the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates — and instead called on Trump to join him for two televised presidential debates in June and September organized by news organizations.
