--- title: Bernie Sanders Is In Favor Of A Debate With Donald Trump description: Donald Trump told Jimmy Kimmel that he would "love to" debate Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and Sanders is on board. canonical: https://time.com/4350296/bernie-sanders-donald-trump-debate-kimmel/ author: Nash Jenkins article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-27T09:34:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T17:53:19.821Z article:section: Politics og:title: Bernie Sanders Says He's In Favor Of Debating Donald Trump og:description: He says it would ideally be held "in some big stadium in California" og:url: https://time.com/4350296/bernie-sanders-donald-trump-debate-kimmel/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bernie Sanders Says He's In Favor Of Debating Donald Trump twitter:description: He says it would ideally be held "in some big stadium in California" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Bernie Sanders Is In Favor Of A 'Very Interesting' Debate With Donald Trump ## Video: What A Trump vs. Sanders Debate Might Look Like [Watch (HLS stream): What A Trump vs. Sanders Debate Might Look Like](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/J4jM7tWK.m3u8) (2:08)  _Published 2016-05-26_ by [Nash Jenkins](https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins May 27, 2016 9:34 AM UTC by [Nash Jenkins](https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins May 27, 2016 9:34 AM UTC Jimmy Kimmel has emerged as this week’s most unlikely interlocutor in the frenzied dialogue of this campaign season. On Wednesday night, Donald Trump [told](http://time.com/4349162/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-debate/) the talk show host that he would “love to” debate Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders — noting, in Trumpian fashion, that the televised program would “have such high ratings.” A day later, Kimmel asked Sanders his thoughts on the matter, and Sanders confirmed that he was on board. “You made it possible for us to have a very interesting debate about two guys who view the world very, very differently,” Sanders told Kimmel Thursday night. The Vermont Senator said that he hoped the proposed debate would be “in some big stadium here in California,” where, in less than two weeks, Sanders will face Hillary Clinton in the state’s important primary. (Three days ago, Clinton’s campaign [announced](http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/23/politics/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-fox-debate-california/) that she would not participate in a Fox News debate between the two Democratic candidates.) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4350296/bernie-sanders-donald-trump-debate-kimmel/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4350296/bernie-sanders-donald-trump-debate-kimmel/"},"headline":"Bernie Sanders Is In Favor Of A 'Very Interesting' Debate With Donald Trump","datePublished":"2016-05-27T09:34:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T17:53:19.821Z","description":"He says it would ideally be held \"in some big stadium in California\"","url":"https://time.com/4350296/bernie-sanders-donald-trump-debate-kimmel/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic","Television","Bernie Sanders","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nash Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4350296/bernie-sanders-donald-trump-debate-kimmel/","name":"Bernie Sanders Is In Favor Of A 'Very Interesting' Debate With Donald Trump"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"What A Trump vs. Sanders Debate Might Look Like","description":"","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/J4jM7tWK/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-05-26T20:35:01.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/J4jM7tWK.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4350296/bernie-sanders-donald-trump-debate-kimmel/","duration":"PT2M8S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4350296/bernie-sanders-donald-trump-debate-kimmel/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```