Trump campaign calls for more presidential debates ‘much earlier’ in election race – live

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Donald Trump’s campaign wrote to the commission on presidential debates asking for this year’s general election debates between him and Joe Biden to take place “much earlier” and calling for more to be added to the schedule.

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In a letter to the commission, Trump co-campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita wrote:

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The Commission must move up the timetable of its proposed 2024 debates to ensure more Americans have a full chance to see the candidates before they start voting, and we would argue for adding more debates in addition to those on the currently proposed schedule.

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The first presidential debate is scheduled to take place on 16 September in San Marcos, Texas. There are three presidential debates and one vice presidential debate scheduled.

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Wiles and LaCivita noted that by the date of the first proposed debate, more than a million Americans are likely to have already voted, and three million may have cast their ballot by 1 October, when the second proposed debate is scheduled. They added:

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We have already indicated President Trump is willing to debate anytime, anyplace, and anywhere – and the time to start these debates is now.

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Trump, who did not participate in any of the Republican primary debates, made similar requests during the 2020 election.

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It’s been a lively day so far of political jostling between Democratic and Republican leaders and within the Republican top echelons, on Capitol Hill and on the presidential election campaign trail. There’s more to come and we’ll bring you the news as it happens.

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Here’s where things stand:

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• Joe Biden’s re-election campaign launched a seven-figure ad buy in Arizona on Thursday focusing on reproductive rights, just two days after the state’s supreme court upheld a near-total abortion ban dating to 1864.

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• Marjorie Taylor Greene, the far-right congresswoman of Georgia who has filed a motion to remove Mike Johnson, said the House speaker offered her a spot on a proposed “kitchen cabinet” of advisers after a meeting at the Capitol.

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• Senator Tim Kaine, a former vice-presidential nominee and leading foreign policy voice in the Democratic party, has said Joe Biden now understands that Benjamin Netanyahu “played” him during the early months of the war in Gaza but “that ain’t going to happen any more”.

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• The joint press conference between Mike Johnson and Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago tomorrow will come just two days after the former president called on Republicans to kill legislation the speaker put forward to extend a controversial surveillance law. Trump had urged House GOP members to reject a reauthorization of the law, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa), ahead of the key procedural vote on Wednesday.

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• House speaker Mike Johnson is dashing to Florida to meet with Donald Trump, where the pair are expected to appear tomorrow at an event at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate for a “major announcement on election integrity”. Friday’s appearance will mark their first public event together since Johnson was elected to the speakership last fall.

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• White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is due to brief the media at 1.30pm ET. At 3.15pm Joe Biden will meet with Philippine president Ferdinand R Marcos Jr and at 4.15pm Biden will hold a trilateral meeting with Marcos and Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida, which US vice president Kamala Harris will attend.

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Joe Biden’s campaign launched a seven-figure ad buy in Arizona on Thursday focusing on reproductive rights, just two days after the state’s supreme court upheld a near-total abortion ban dating to 1864.

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The ad buy focuses on Donald Trump’s latest abortion stance, in which he said laws should be left to individual states, many of which have enacted new restrictions since he appointed supreme court justices who were instrumental in the 2022 Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v Wade.

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“Because of Donald Trump, millions of women lost the fundamental freedom to control their own bodies,” Biden narrates in the 30-second ad.

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And now, women’s lives are in danger because of that. The question is, if Donald Trump gets back in power, what freedom will you lose next?

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