Trump Campaign Urges Change in Debate Topics But Not Rules

  • President’s campaign manager asks for foreign policy focus
  • Topics now include Covid-19, race, climate and U.S. families
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Donald Trump’s re-election campaign lashed out at the Commission on Presidential Debates about the topics and potential rule changes for the president’s final face-off against Democratic candidate Joe Biden.

In a two-page letter to the commission, Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien stopped short of threatening to withdraw from the Thursday debate but said the non-partisan commission’s “pro-Biden antics have turned the entire debate season into a fiasco.”