Former President Donald Trump arrives at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Georgia on Wednesday, April 10, 2024. Trump is visiting the state to host a campaign fundraising event. (Robin Rayne for Fox News Digital)
First, Wiles and LaCivita said "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."
"Specific to the Commissions proposed 2024 calendar, it simply comes too late," they wrote, adding an estimate of how many Americans will have already voted by the date of each scheduled debate.
"By the date of the first proposed debate, September 16, 2024, over 1 million Americans will have likely voted," they wrote. "By the date of the second proposed debate, October 1, 2024, the number of Americans who will have likely cast a ballot will be over 3 million, an increase of 225%."
BIDEN SAYS DEBATING TRUMP 'DEPENDS ON HIS BEHAVIOR'
By the third proposed debate date on Oct. 9, 35 days from Election Day, Wiles and LaCivita estimated that "approximately 8.7 million Americans will have already voted."
first lady Melania Trump, left, and President Donald Trump, center, remain on stage as Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, right, walk away at the conclusion of the second and final presidential debate Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020, at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
"I think it is important that we debate and the earlier the better because people have to find out what is going on with America," he explained. "We are no longer respected around the world. There are so many things that are happening."
He added: "It’s not the same country that we had just four years ago."
Meanwhile, in their letter to the debate commission, the Trump campaign said that in 2020, the commission "ceded to the wishes of the Biden campaign on every front."
"Fairness in such a setting is paramount and the Commission must ensure that the 2024 Commission-sponsored debates are truly fair and conducted impartially," they wrote.
"The Commission must move up the timetable of its proposed 2024 debates to ensure more Americans have a full chance to see the candidates before they start voting, and we would argue for adding more debates in addition to those on the currently proposed schedule," they wrote. "We have already indicated President Trump is willing to debate anytime, anyplace, and anywhere—and the time to start these debates is now."
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"Former President Abraham Lincoln and former U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas held seven debates in their storied 1858 U.S. Senate battle in Illinois," they added. "Certainly today’s America deserves as much."
Biden and his campaign have yet to commit to debates against Trump.
When asked last month if he would debate the former president, Biden said it was dependent on Trump’s "behavior."
"Depends on his behavior," Biden said.
Earlier this year, Biden addressed previous calls for earlier debates with Trump.
"If I were him, I would want to debate me, too," Biden told reporters in Nevada when asked about Trump wanting to debate him earlier in the election cycle.
"He’s got nothing else to do," Biden said.
Brooke Singman is a political correspondent and reporter for Fox News Digital, Fox News Channel and FOX Business.
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