Eleven broadcast news outlets plus the newspaper USA Today have issued a joint statement urging “the presumptive presidential nominees to publicly commit to participating in general election debates before November’s election.” 

You can read the full statement here.

In addition to USA Today, the undersigned are ABC News, The Associated Press, CBS News, CNN, C-SPAN, Fox News Media, NBC Universal News Group, NewsNation, Noticias Univision (Univision Network News), NPR and PBS News Hour. 

Though not asked, we are all for it. In fact, The Hustings launched in late-September 2020 with these posts covering the first Biden-Trump debates, with commentary from our contributing pundits on the right and left.

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