Washington DC: The second presidential debate between
President Trump and the former Vice-President Joe Biden have been cancelled,
The Commission on Presidential Debates announced in a statement on Friday. In
the last 48 hours, both Democratic National Party and Republican Party fought
over the second debate with Biden’s camp asking for a virtual debate and the
commission granted the request for the candidates to take part in a virtual
debate but Donald Trump outrightly dismissed the idea of having a virtual
debate saying that the moderator would have more chances to cut him off during the
debate and he insisted that he was completely healthy to participate in the debate
despite being testing positive for the coronavirus last Friday.
Biden campaign will instead see the former Vice-President
take part in a town hall where the voters would put questions to Joe Biden.
Biden earlier said that he would not participate in the second presidential
debate if President Trump was still infected. The health of the president and his current covid status remains
mysterious to the press and the American people as well. There were no reports
of Trump testing negative after his brief stay at Walter Reed Military Hospital
over the last weekend and Trump returned to the White House saying he felt
better and ready take on his presidential duties and continue his campaign
trail for 2020 elections. He attracted criticism from all parts of the society
since returning to the White House. His critics pointed out that his return to
the White House as dangerous and disregard for his own life and of the others
as well. Normally, the doctors say that a covid patient will experience symptoms
for two weeks if he/she only exhibits mild symptoms and it takes 3-6 weeks if
the there are severe symptoms in the patients. Donald Trump was airlifted to
the military hospital on Friday, and he returned to the White House after only
three days with no statement as to his current covid status. The President also
took a car ride last Sunday waving at his supporters who decked out opposite to
Walter Reed Military Hospital.
More than 10 people have been tested positive for the
coronavirus who are part of Trump’s most trusted inner circle. There have been
reports that Rose Garden event held for announcing the Supreme Court Justice
nominee on the lawns of the White House could be an super-spreader event of the
virus and one of the senior aides to Trump, Hope Hicks tested positive days
before Trump and the First Lady Melania Trump themselves had tested positive.
The scheduled second debate in Miami will not go on as
planned and Trump campaign accusing Biden of cancelling the debate because the
former Vice-President fears that Trump amplification of down-trodden American
voices would be voiced out in the debate. In response, the Trump critics argued
that the President was insecure about debating Biden because he now considers
Biden as a legitimate threat to his presidency. Biden is trailing high in
national and network polls and the last debated ended in a nasty showdown in
Cleveland with the event garnering extreme criticism from the press and the
American public.
