Biden Says He Would Debate Trump in Sitdown With Howard Stern
- President previously said debates hinged on Trump’s ‘behavior’
- Biden sits for interview with Stern to broaden outreach
Donald Trump and Joe Biden during a U.S. presidential debate in 2020.
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President Joe Biden said he intends to debate Donald Trump ahead of their November general-election rematch, a break with previous comments expressing reluctance about sharing a stage with his predecessor.
Biden spoke Friday in a wide-ranging interview with radio host Howard Stern, in which he criticized Trump’s support for people who stormed the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 and the former president’s reported comments mocking fallen US soldiers as losers. The president said he would be happy to take those arguments to Trump on a debate stage.