Trump vows not to participate in virtual debate with Biden

Organizers had switched to the online format for health reasons

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President Donald Trump removes his mask as he stands on the Blue Room Balcony upon returning to the White House in Washington after leaving Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Oct. 2. © AP

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump vowed Thursday not to participate in next week's debate with Democratic nominee Joe Biden after organizers announced it will take place virtually because of the president's diagnosis of COVID-19.

“I’m not going to do a virtual debate," Trump told Fox Business News, moments after the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates announced the changes.

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