When Is The Final Biden-Trump Presidential Debate? - NPR

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and President Trump will have their final debate on Thursday.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and President Trump will have their final debate on Thursday.

With less than two weeks until voting concludes, President Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will face off for the final time in a debate on Thursday, likely marking Trump's last chance to reach a massive audience as he trails Biden in polls nationally and in key states.

The Trump campaign has said without evidence that debate organizers are biased in favor of Biden.

Still, in a statement following the new rule change, Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien said: "President Trump is committed to debating Joe Biden regardless of last minute rule changes from the biased commission in their latest attempt to provide advantage to their favored candidate.".

The two were set to meet again in a town hall-style debate last week, but Trump balked when the debate commission opted to make the event virtual, given the president's recent COVID-19 diagnosis.

Thursday's final debate offers an opportunity for Trump to pick up some momentum in front of a large audience as he trails behind Biden in polls.

The Biden campaign announced last week that along with allied Democratic groups, it raised $383 million in September alone — about $135 million more than the Trump campaign and Republican affiliates collected last month.

Welker released the tentative topics a week ahead of the debate

Stepien, Trump's campaign manager, sent the debate commission a letter on Monday slamming it for not including a section on foreign policy, which the campaign sees as a weak point for Biden

(Before he was vice president, Biden chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.) Stepien asked the commission to "rethink and reissue a set of topics" for the debate, with an emphasis on foreign policy