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US Republican Senator John McCain will attend a presidential debate with his White House rival Barack Obama, his campaign has announced. US Republican presidential hopeful John McCain will attend a debate with rival Barack Obama, reversing a decision to delay it over the financial crisis.
"We are going to the debate," said one of his advisers, Nicolle Wallace. Senator McCain had vowed not to attend the forum until a financial bailout deal was agreed in Washington.
Mr McCain had said earlier that he would not participate in the debate until a deal was reached on a rescue package for the financial crisis. However, his campaign said that enough progress had been made for the head-to-head to take place.
Mr Obama has said the head-to-head would show voters which candidate would better handle "this mess". Democratic leaders in Congress earlier criticised Mr McCain over his intervention in the deal negotiations.
The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, said the "insertion of presidential politics" had so far been harmful to talks aimed at passing a $700bn (£380bn) government plan to bail out troubled US banks and financial institutions.
Mr McCain and his Democratic rival were among a number of Congressional leaders who met President George W Bush on Thursday evening to discuss the package.
A spokesman for Mr McCain said that after the debate in Oxford, Mississippi, the senator for Arizona would return to Washington to resume negotiations on the rescue plan.