'No more games': Biden rejects additional debates against Trump

President Joe Biden's campaign rejected two additional debates on Friday that former President Donald Trump's campaign says it agreed to do.

One was a proposal for a presidentialdebate hosted by NBC News and Telemundo. The other was for a vice presidential debate hosted by Fox News at Virginia State University, a historically Black college.

"I have accepted a fourth Presidential Debate against Crooked Joe Biden, this time with NBC & Telemundo," Trump wrote on Truth Social Friday afternoon. "It is important as Republicans that we WIN with our Great Hispanic Community, who Biden has devastated with Crippling Inflation, High Gas Prices, Crime in our Streets, and Border Chaos. ... This is all in addition to our accepting an invitation from Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum of Fox News to host the Vice Presidential Debate at Virginia State University, or another venue, in Virginia, to be named later."

A spokesperson for NBC News confirmed that the network had offered a debate to both campaigns.

Trump's acceptance of debates that would have reached larger Latino and Black audiences seemed aimed, at part, at goading the Biden campaign, which has been struggling to connecting with these communities that were critical to his election in 2020.

“The debate about debates is over,” a Biden campaign official said. “No more games.”

This week, the Trump and Biden campaigns bypassed the traditional process run by the Commission on Presidential Debates and agreed to two presidential debates: one hosted by CNN in Atlanta on June 27, and another by ABC News on Sept. 10, with the location yet to be determined.

The Biden campaign also accepted an offer for a vice presidential debate hosted by CBS News, but so far the Trump campaign has not —