美国共和党总统候选人麦凯恩已经恢复他的竞选活动，并且将参加星期五晚上举行的总统候选人辩论。麦凯恩曾表示，如果拯救陷入困境的美国金融部门的协议无法达成，他就不参加总统候选人的辩论。美国媒体报导，麦凯恩的竞选班子星期五说，救市方案已经取得了进展，不过，麦凯恩在参加辩论之后将返回华盛顿，为最终的协议努力工作。麦凯恩和民主党总统侯选人奥巴马在白宫与美国总统布什和一些国会主要领导人举行的会谈星期四晚间破裂。
此后，奥巴马在美国有线电视新闻网的电视节目上说，他担心把总统竞选政治带入谈判的弊大于利。与此同时，民主党议员指责麦凯恩使谈判进答7b受挫，并利用金融危机来为他的竞选活动造势。麦凯恩竞选班子则反唇相讥，说奥巴马把关键的白宫会谈变成了一个政治漫骂的比赛。奥巴马说，即使协议没有达成，他也将参加星期五晚间在南部密西西比州牛津市举行的总统候选人的辩论。
U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain has resumed his campaign and will take part in tonight’s (Friday night’s) presidential debate. McCain had said he would not attend the debate if a plan to bailout the troubled U.S. financial sector was not in place. A statement by McCain’s campaign today (Friday) said there has been progress, but that McCain would return to Washington after the debate to work on a final agreement. Talks at the White House with U.S. President George Bush, McCain, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and other leading lawmakers fell apart late Thursday.
Afterwards, Obama told CNN television he worried that injecting presidential politics into negotiations will do more harm than good. Democratic lawmakers have accused McCain of hurting the process and using the financial crisis to boost his campaign. In turn, the McCain campaign accused Obama of turning the critical White House meeting into a political shouting match. Obama had said he would attend the debate (in the city of Oxford, in the southern state of Mississippi) even if a deal was not in place.