President Joe Biden and presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump will face off on June 27, after a public back-and-forth on Wednesday morning that culminated in both candidates agreeing to a CNN invitation for a debate.
The debate will be held at 9 p.m. ET at the network’s studios in Atlanta. CNN said there will be no audience at the debate, fulfilling a key demand from Biden’s camp. More details about the format and moderators will be released at a later date, the network said.
Biden and Trump announced later Wednesday that they’d accepted an ABC News invitation for a second debate on Sept. 10.
The fast-moving set-up for the debates was a clear rebuff to the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates’ usual role in the process. Bide