Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday held a campaign rally in Wisconsin with an empty mic stand subsequent to his podium, symbolic of his eagerness to debate President Biden “anytime, anyplace” forward of the November election.
“You’ll be able to see now we have an empty podium proper right here to my proper. You recognize what that’s? That’s for Joe Biden,” Trump, 77, instructed his supporters in Inexperienced Bay, motioning towards the vacant lectern.
“I’m making an attempt to get him to debate,” he added. “I’m calling on ‘Crooked Joe’ to debate anytime, anyplace. We’ll do it anyway you need, Joe.”
The mic stand was adorned with a black placard that learn, “Anytime. Wherever. Anyplace.”
Trump famous {that a} debate between him and the 81-year-old incumbent would enable them to “talk about in a pleasant method the true issues of our nation.”
“Let’s go have a very good, strong, pleasant debate,” Trump, who refused to take part in any of the Republican main debates, implored.
Biden marketing campaign spokesman Michael Tyler known as the stunt a “weak merch play from a man determined to keep away from speaking about how he’s bought no money, no marketing campaign infrastructure, and no reply for a way his chaotic, divisive and violent marketing campaign goes to win this November.”
“Trump stated final fall solely people who find themselves shedding need debates,” Tyler added. “No less than we agree on one thing.”
Biden instructed reporters final month that he might opt against debating Trump forward of their anticipated election rematch.
“It is determined by his habits,” Biden stated.
