The US election is edging closer – with the first debate between President Joe Biden and rival, Donald Trump, is only one week away. 

Both will formally become their parties' 2024 candidates – and this will be the first of at least two debates before the 5 November election. 

US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking it's the first time the two have been in the same room since October 2020 – when Biden told Trump, “Will you just shut up, man?”  

Arnold said “The debate took the political process down to a new low.” 

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