Biden, 77,
and Mr Trump, 74, will have three debates before the 3 November election.The
three presidential debates will take place in Cleveland, Ohio, on 29 September;
in Miami, Florida, on 15 October; and Nashville, Tennessee, on 22 October.
Barely three
months to the US presidential elections, the US President Donald Trump, has
challenged Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, to drug tests before their first
electoral debate next month.
Back in 2016,
Trump suggested his then-Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, had been “getting
pumped up” before their debates and challenged her to take a drug test ahead of
their final live TV encounter.
On Wednesday
August 26, Trump made a similar claim, arguing that Mr Biden’s debating ability
had improved in the final Democratic primaries debate against Bernie Sanders.
Mr Trump said
the former US vice-president “wasn’t even coherent” during some of the 11 live
TV debates he competed in earlier but by the time of the last debate on 15
March, he performed better against Senator Bernie Sanders.
Speaking to
the Washington Examiner on Thursday August 27, Trump said; “I don’t know how he
[Mr Biden] could have been so incompetent in his debate performances and then
all of a sudden be OK against Bernie.”
He added: “It
wasn’t that he was Winston Churchill because he wasn’t, but it was a normal,
boring debate.
“You know,
nothing amazing happened. And we are going to call for a drug test because
there’s no way – you can’t do that.”
Mr Trump said
of the debates: “Well, it is a prizefight. It’s no different from the gladiators,
except we have to use our brain and our mouth. And our body to stand. I want
all standing – they want to sit down.”
Trump offered
no evidence his rival might be on drugs other than to say: “I’m pretty good at
this stuff.”
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