President Biden's team is demanding that there be no audience at any debate with former President Trump. (Photo by Jim Bourg-Pool/Getty Images)
Biden's campaign heavily criticized the CPD for making debates "huge spectacles with large audiences" in its letter to the organization.
The new debates between Trump and Biden must take place in a television studio with just the candidates and the moderator present.
"The debates should be conducted for the benefit of the American voters, watching on television and at home – not as entertainment for an in-person audience with raucous or disruptive partisans and donors, who consume valuable debate time with noisy spectacles of approval or jeering. As was the case with the original televised debates in 1960, a television studio with just the candidates and moderators is a better, more cost-efficient way to proceed: focused solely on the interests of voters," Biden's campaign wrote.
TRUMP URGES BIDEN TO FOLLOW THROUGH WITH DEBATE PROMISE: 'I'M READY TO GO ANYWHERE'
President Biden's debate demands limit which outlets can host a debate for the 2024 election. (Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Biden's demands limit the number of major news outlets that can host a 2024 presidential debate.
"It should be hosted by any broadcast organization that hosted a Republican Primary debate in 2016 in which Donald Trump participated, and a Democratic primary debate in 2020 in which President Biden participated – so neither campaign can assert that the sponsoring organization is obviously unacceptable: if both candidates have previously debated on their airwaves, then neither could object to such venue," the campaign wrote.
This rule set limits the networks that can host a debate to CNN, ABC, CBS or Telemundo.
A key provision in President Biden's debate demands is that the candidates' mics must only be active during the allotted time to speak. (Associated Press )
Biden's campaign blasted the CPD for allowing extensive crosstalk and interruptions during the 2020 debates between Trump and Biden.
They now demand that both candidates' microphones be muted once their allotted speaking time expires.
"There should be firm time limits for answers, and alternate turns to speak – so that the time is evenly divided and we have an exchange of views, not a spectacle of mutual interruption. A candidate’s microphone should only be active when it is his turn to speak, to promote adherence to the rules and orderly proceedings," the campaign wrote.
The letter to the CPD criticized the organization for being "unable or unwilling to enforce the rules in the 2020 debates."
"The result was far from—indeed entirely inconsistent with— the orderly and informative process the voters deserved in 2020 and should be able to expect in 2024," the letter continued.
Trump has accepted Biden's debate offer despite the restrictions, however, with the first encounter scheduled for June 27 to be hosted by CNN.
"I am Ready and Willing to Debate Crooked Joe at the two proposed times in June and September," Trump posted. "I would strongly recommend more than two debates and, for excitement purposes, a very large venue, although Biden is supposedly afraid of crowds – That’s only because he doesn’t get them. Just tell me when, I’ll be there. ‘Let’s get ready to Rumble!!!’"
Anders Hagstrom is a reporter with Fox News Digital covering national politics and major breaking news events. Send tips to Anders.Hagstrom@Fox.com, or on Twitter: @Hagstrom_Anders.
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