The showdown comes as Biden looks to shore up the broad electoral coalition he’ll need to defeat Trump and his fervent conservative base.
Signs advertising the CNN presidential debate are seen on the McCamish Pavilion on the campus of Georgia Tech on June 25, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. U.S. President Joe Biden and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump will face off in the first presidential debate of the 2024 presidential cycle this Thursday. President Joe Biden’s campaign already sees one victory from the upcoming debate with Donald Trump — the absence of third-party challenger Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy has blasted CNN and the two major-party campaigns for his exclusion, claiming he met the debate criteria. “My exclusion by Presidents Biden and Trump from the debate is undemocratic, un-American, and cowardly,” he said in a statement. Polls show Kennedy drawing from Biden and Trump voters in roughly equal measure, and both major-party campaigns have sought to discredit him among their supporters — while also trying to make him more appealing to the other side.
Trump has also intensified his attacks, casting Kennedy as a “Democratic plant.” Kennedy’s opposition to vaccine mandates, skepticism of gun-control measures and crusade against tech companies he accuses of censorship, align him closely with much of Trump’s base. Kennedy also lags far behind the major-party candidates in fundraising, but got a boost by selecting Silicon Valley lawyer and philanthropist Nicole Shanahan as his running mate. Shanahan, the ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, contributed $8 million to their campaign in April, taking advantage of federal law allowing candidates to donate unlimited amounts to support their own candidacy.
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