Debate schedule does not take into account early voting

 Federalist Wire:

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Trump’s campaign has demanded that the debates this year take place earlier in the election cycle and that they happen more frequently.

They said that because more voters are voting earlier in elections over the past several years, that it’s key to hold the debates at an earlier date.

“Voting is beginning earlier and earlier, and as we saw in 2020, tens of millions of Americans had already voted by the time of the first debate,” Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita, Donald Trump’s co-campaign managers announced in a letter which was written to the Commission on Presidential Debates.

They then said that the commission’s proposed dates for the debates are too late in the election cycle and by then too many people would have made their decision for president through early voting.

“Specific to the Commission’s proposed 2024 calendar, it simply comes too late. By the date of the first proposed debate, September 16, 2024, over 1 million Americans will have likely voted. By the date of the second proposed debate, October 1, 2024, the number of Americans who will have likely cast a ballot will be over 3 million, an increase of 225%,” Wiles and LaCivita’s letter continued.

They also assumed that by the time the third debate takes place this year on October 9, 8.7 million people would have already cast their votes.

Wiles and LaCivita then said that it would be useful to have more debates scheduled as well.
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Biden has shown that he is not capable of making speeches because of his cognitive decline.  It looks like the debate schedule is an attempt to hide that decline from early voters.