WASHINGTON — For the first time in more than three years, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will take the debate stage Thursday, June 27 in their bids to secure another term in the White House.

State Rep. Andy Barr, R-Lexington, who was the first of Kentucky’s delegation to endorse Trump, said he expects Biden will focus on Trump’s recent felony conviction.

“What I'm expecting is that the current president, President Biden, is going to try to focus on anything but his own record, and he's going to probably try to refer to the court decision in New York,” he said.

Biden’s team has highlighted the guilty verdict in Trump’s hush money case last month and refers to him as a “convicted felon.”

“What President Trump needs to say, and what I expect him to say is, ‘While President Biden is trying to focus on me, I'm focused on you, the American people, and I'm committed to returning to the policies that we had during the previous administration where we had price stability, low inflation, economic growth,’” Barr said.

State Rep. Morgan McGarvey, D-Louisville, Kentucky’s only Democrat in Congress, said while voters may be excited to tune in, they already know the candidates and their visions.

“I think we're going to see two very different visions for America,” McGarvey said. “We know what Donald Trump's America looks like. It's division. It's hatred. It's fear."

"And now we have a record of what Joe Biden's America looks like. It's coming together. It's moving forward. It's job creation. It's making sure that people have rights and freedoms and that we're making a better world. And so I think that's going to come out tomorrow.”

With just over four months until the election, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., continues to hold off on endorsing Trump and said he’s looking for a promise the former president will give access to Paul’s investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“While I’m supportive of Donald Trump, I haven’t decided to go out and campaign for him or formally endorse him because I am concerned about all the debt we added during the Trump administration,” Paul said Tuesday. “I’m concerned about the lockdowns. I didn’t like closing all the businesses.”

Spectrum News will simulcast the debate, hosted by CNN. It’s set for Thursday, June 27 at 9 p.m. EDT in Atlanta and is expected to run for 90 minutes. There will be no studio audience.