President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have agreed to two debates leading up to the 2024 U.S. elections, with the first in June and the second in September. That development followed months of public speculation about whether there would be any debates between the two candidates at all and, if so, what those debates would look like.

Watch the above video as Straight Arrow News contributor John Fortier analyzes what this says about how debates work and then explores a few of the concerns that Americans have on both the right and left sides of the political spectrum.

The following is an excerpt of the above video:

So with opposition from both parties, why did we end up having debates? Ultimately, it was a political calculation on both sides that led to our speedy debate agreement. Former President Trump, even though his party had disavowed the official commissioned debates, believed that he would have an advantage debating President Biden. He issued an anywhere, anytime challenge to the Biden campaign to have debates.