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With Super Tuesday firmly in the rearview mirror, President Donald Trump has become the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, and he has officially set his sights on Joe Biden.
Fresh on the heels of 14 Super Tuesday wins, Trump took to Truth Social on Wednesday to signal that he is ready, willing, and able to debate Joe Biden ahead of the general election, acknowledging the close of the primary contest and shifting toward the November 2024 election.
He explained, “It is important, for the Good of our Country, that Joe Biden and I Debate Issues that are so vital to America, and the American People.”
Trump did not spend any time throughout the primary season on the GOP debate stage, wisely spending his time courting primary state voters amid dominating poll numbers. That strategy paid off in spades, netting him the prospective nomination and forcing his Republican rivals to drop out of the nomination race, one by one, in light of his popularity among U.S. voters.
The president added, “Therefore, I am calling for Debates, ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE! The Debates can be run by the Corrupt DNC, or their Subsidiary, the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). I look forward to receiving a response. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
On Wednesday morning, following a string of crushing defeats in the GOP primary election, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley at last dropped her 2024 presidential campaign, but she did not endorse Trump upon her exit, as other candidates like Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., and Vivek Ramaswamy chose to do.
Haley did admit that Trump would be the Republican nominee, however. She said, “In all likelihood, Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee when our party convention meets in July.”
In his late-night victory speech from Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday evening, Trump did not mention Nikki Haley, further illustrating a significant pivot away from primary election campaigning and toward the general election.
