Team Biden slow-walking Trump debate challenge amid age and stamina concerns

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President Joe Biden isn’t making an imminent decision on former President Donald Trump‘s demands to debate him ahead of the general election, Democratic strategists close to his campaign say.

Neither Biden nor Trump has yet cleared the delegate threshold to secure their party’s nomination, but the dueling, post-Super Tuesday campaign suspensions of Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley move the nation one step closer to a 2024 Biden-Trump rematch.

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