Second Debate Formally Cancelled

“The second presidential debate was formally canceled late Friday after President Trump refused to participate in a virtual event, the latest sign of the upheaval that the coronavirus has wrought on the 2020 campaign,” the New York Times reports.

“Once Mr. Trump pulled out of the debate, his Democratic challenger, Joseph R. Biden Jr., scheduled his own town-hall-style event that night on ABC, leaving the commission little choice but to abandon its plans. Mr. Trump’s campaign was in talks on Friday with NBC to hold a counter-event for the president, most likely on the same night.”