Mainstream News Outlets Publish Open Letter Urging Biden and Trump to Debate
A dozen of America’s most prominent mainstream media outlets have published an open letter urging Joe Biden and Donald Trump to agree to debate before the 2024 election.
Letter signatories included ABC News, The Associated Press, CBS News, CNN, C-SPAN, Fox News, NBC News, NewsNation, Univision, NPR, PBS NewsHour and USA Today.
The letter calls on the two leading candidates “to publicly commit to participating in general election debates before November’s election.”
C-SPAN joins other major news organizations to urge the presumptive presidential nominees to publicly commit to participate in general election debates prior to November’s election. pic.twitter.com/QoQtiZku2P
— CSPAN (@cspan) April 14, 2024
The organizations argued that debates have “played a vital role in every presidential election of the past 50 years,