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The pressure is building on President Joe Biden to agree to debate Donald Trump as the former president called for earlier engagements and the television networks are urging the candidates to hit the stage.
'While the Commission on Presidential Debates has already announced three presidential debates and a vice-presidential debate to occur later this year, we are in favor of these debates beginning much earlier,' Trump co-campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita sent Thursday to The Commission on Presidential Debates.
In the letter, obtained by Fox News, the co-managers note that 'voting is beginning earlier and earlier, and as we saw in 2020, tens of millions of Americans had already voted by the time of the first debate.'
But Trump is also expected to spend much of the fall in court, fighting legal charges in Georgia state court and federal court in Florida.
The pressure is on Joe Biden to agree to debate Donald Trump
There is a detailed plan for three presidential debates and a vice presidential one already in place from the Commission on Presidential Debates, a nonpartisan organization that has leaders from both sides of the political aisle.
They have the debates slated for Sept. 16, Oct. 1, and Oct. 9.
'By the date of the first proposed debate, September 16, 2024, over 1 million Americans will have likely voted,' Wiles and LaCivita wrote. 'By the date of the second proposed debate, October 1, 2024, the number of Americans who will have likely cast a ballot will be over 3 million, an increase of 225%.'
The Trump letter comes as the major television news networks are preparing a joint letter to send to Biden and Trump to beg them to participate in the debates.
The letter - from ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox News - is not yet final, the New York Times reported, and the networks also want co-signers from other leading national news organizations, including newspapers.
'We, the undersigned national news organizations, urge the presumptive presidential nominees to publicly commit to participating in general election debates before November's election,' the letter reads.
'If there is one thing Americans can agree on, during this polarized time, it is that the stakes of this election are exceptionally high,' the letter continues.
'There is simply no substitute for the candidates debating with each other, and before the American people, their visions for the
