He was, saying it “would have such high ratings.”
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The Republican nominee said his team has been in conversations with several networks about hosting the debate.
A small number of unbound delegates said they would support Trump at the party’s July convention, the AP reported, pushing the billionaire businessman over the 1,237-delegate threshold he needed to avoid a contested convention ahead of the November 8 election.
Overlooking the impediment of Trump’s price tag on his acceptance, Sanders tweeted that he was delighted that Trump accepted, adding: “Let’s do it in the biggest stadium possible”.
Both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders suggested on Thursday that they would be happy to face each other in an unusual cross-partisan debate just before the June 7 California primaries – but it’s not clear it will actually happen.
“I look forward to coming together to unify our party to stop Donald Trump and move our country forward, because there’s much more that unites us than divides us”, Clinton said.
Clinton told reporters Thursday that she understood the proposal for a Sanders-Trump debate was “a joke” and she’s looking forward to debating Trump in the general election campaign. “We’re serious and hope Mr. Trump is, too”, Briggs said.
“Clinton now has her sights set on one man, ” reported ABC’s Cecilia Vega in a not so subtle attempt to dismiss Clinton’s Bernie Sanders problem. She said networks already compromise themselves by negotiating with campaigns over the moderators and formats for debates.
“Just a tinge arrogance there I think”, he said.
Fewer than 2,000 votes separate Clinton and Sanders in Kentucky, or less than one half of 1 percent of all votes cast in the state. But the Sanders campaign was really, truly interested in an intramural debate before the June 7 primary.
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In the Las Vegas speech, Clinton called for unity in the Democratic Party in order to fight Trump and noted that the primary race against Sanders was coming to “an end”.
