Debate schedule: Trump team points to early voting as reason to bump up faceoffs with Biden

Former President Donald Trump’s team is demanding earlier and more frequent debates against President Joe Biden this election cycle, claiming many people have been voting earlier in recent election cycles.

Trump co-campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita said the three debate dates proposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates come too late in the election cycle because millions of voters would have already cast their ballots by mail.

“Voting is beginning earlier and earlier, and as we saw in 2020, tens of millions of Americans had already voted by the time of the first debate,” the duo wrote in a letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates. “Specific to the Commission’s proposed 2024 calendar, it simply comes too late. By the date of the first
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