Remote televised duel.
While US President Donald Trump will participate in the evening of Thursday, October 15 in an exchange with voters on NBC television, his Democratic rival will do the same on ABC.
The two opponents of the November 3 presidential election were initially scheduled to meet on Thursday for their second debate.
But the meeting was finally canceled, the American president having refused to participate in the "virtual debate" proposed by the organizing committee.
>> To read: "What to remember from the first debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden"
Donald Trump will speak from Miami, NBC announced Wednesday.
Joe Biden will be in Philadelphia.
Donald Trump and the host will respect social distancing and participants who came to ask questions of the White House tenant will wear masks, NBC said.
Since the announcement on October 1 of the positive test of the US president, Joe Biden's campaign team has published its test results for Covid-19 every day.
They have so far always been negative.
With AFP
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