In an interview with Howard Stern, Joe Biden said he’s ‘happy’ to debate President Trump.

“I don’t know if you’re going to debate your opponent,” Stern said.

“I am somewhere, I don’t know when. I’m happy to debate him,” Biden replied.

Journalist and talk show host Owen Shroyer commented:

1. Joe Biden looks AWFUL here.
2. Every word out of Howard Stern & Biden’s mouth is a lie.
3. Biden says he’d be happy to debate Trump but won’t. What does that even mean, he’d be happy? Presidential debates were a guarantee until Biden backed out.

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ABC News reports:

After Biden’s remark on Stern’s show on Sirius/XM, Trump’s campaign manager Chris LaCivita responded on social media.

“Ok,” he wrote on X, “let’s set it up !”

Trump, however, is pouring cold water on the idea that Biden actually wants to debate him.

“Everyone knows he doesn’t really mean it,” Trump wrote in a post on his social media platform on Friday.

Trump then quipped that Biden should debate him at his rally in Michigan next week or even in New York City, where they both are Friday.

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From the Associated Press:

President Joe Biden said Friday that he is willing to debate his presumptive Republican opponent, Donald Trump, later this fall – his most definitive comment yet on the issue.

Trump said he was ready, though he questioned Bidens’s willingness.

Biden’s comment came during an interview with the Sirius XM radio host Howard Stern, who asked him whether he would participate in debates against Trump.

“I am, somewhere. I don’t know when,” Biden said. “But I’m happy to debate him.”

Until now, Biden’s reelection campaign had declined to commit to participating in the debates, a hallmark of every general election presidential campaign since 1976.

Biden himself had also been vague, saying in March that whether he debated Trump “depends on his behavior.” The two men debated twice during the 2020 general election — a campaign year constrained significantly by COVID-19 restrictions — and Biden was notably irritated by Trump’s antics in the chaotic first debate that year.

“Will you shut up?” Biden told Trump at one point during the first debate.

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