Biden’s big question: Debate or decline?

Published January 11, 2024 10:00pm ET



President Joe Biden may be weighing his own version of the famous Hamlet question as fall approaches: to debate or not to debate.

Since 1976, the answer to that question for every major party presidential nominee has been “yes.” But there are rumblings from within the Democratic Party that Biden should turn that precedent on its head — particularly if his 2024 Republican opponent is former President Donald Trump.

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