{"id":246268,"date":"2016-05-27T13:05:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T13:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-sanders-may-hold-presidential-debate\/"},"modified":"2016-05-27T13:05:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T13:05:45","slug":"trump-sanders-may-hold-presidential-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-sanders-may-hold-presidential-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump, Sanders may hold presidential debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"89\">\n<p><strong>US presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have expressed willingness to hold a debate, an unprecedented move since Republican and Democratic candidates traditionally do not debate each other until the parties have selected their nominees.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The two native New Yorkers &#8211; a billionaire businessman and a US senator &#8211; expressed interest on Thursday to hold a one-on-one encounter in California.<\/p>\n<p>The debate could have the effect of sidelining and belittling Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and create a television spectacle that could attract huge ratings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d love to debate Bernie,&#8221; Trump told reporters in North Dakota, after he secured enough delegates to clinch the Republican presidential nomination. &#8220;I think it would get very high ratings. It would be in a big arena.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver told CNN there had been &#8220;a few discussions&#8221; between the campaigns about the details. But Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks said in an&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/05\/27\/467662\/Sanders-Trump-debate-California\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have expressed willingness to hold a debate, an unprecedented move since Republican and Democratic candidates traditionally do not debate each other until the parties have selected their nominees. The two native New Yorkers &#8211; a billionaire businessman and a US senator &#8211; expressed interest on Thursday to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-246268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}