THE Trump campaign is "trying to move up the final debate against Joe Biden or add an extra face-off before the election."

The president's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, made the request to the Commission on Presidential Debates on Wednesday.

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The former New York City Mayor has asked for the Commission to "modernize its line-up" to include an additional early debate in September.

However if the request for a fourth debate is refused, the lawyer "strongly urges" the Commission to move the date of the final debate forward.

"The solution is easy: add an additional debate in early September before the first ballots are sent out in North Carolina on September 4, 2020, or, move up the final debate currently scheduled for October 22, 2020 into the first week in September," Giuliani wrote.

He reasoned: "By the time of the first presidential debate on September 29, 2020, at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, as many as eight million Americans in 16 states will have already started voting."

Giuliani continued: "Simply put, the Commission’s current approach is an outdated dinosaur and not reflective of voting realities in 2020."

Tim Murtaugh, communications director for the Trump campaign, told Axios that the news that Biden will no longer travel to Milwaukee for the Democratic National Convention has led them to believe that "he'll try to weasel out of debates."

Organizers said that there had been ongoing consultation with public officials and experts on whether the presidential hopeful should travel to accept his nomination.

The decision for speakers to not travel to Wisconsin was made "in order to prevent risking the health of our host community as well as the convention’s production teams, security officials, community partners, media and others necessary to orchestrate the event."

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