Apparently all the RNC funds will go to trumps legal bills.
He would ‘interrupt’ Biden and ‘ramble’ and talk over him even if his mic. is muted. Everyone would be able to hear an uninterrupted Biden. When it’s Trump’s turn. he won’t address any of Biden’s challenges because he wasn’t listening. When it’s Biden’s turn again, Biden can point out that Trump was speaking gibberish and didn’t answer the issue.
This got put together quickly:
Nate Silver finds considerable significance in Biden proposing two early debates (rather the three later ones tentatively scheduled by the Commission on Presidential Debates). Democrats may like how this piece begins, but dislike it as they read more:
What Biden’s debate gambit reveals: The White House gets an A+ on tactics
Nate Silver is great with numbers but a terrible pundit. This is particularly dumb punditry.
If this happens, it’ll be the earliest presidential debate in my memory. I’ve always thought the debates were too late in the season myself.
Anyone older than me know when the last time was that the two nominees debated this early?
I don’t think that there has ever been a debate before the conventions, so the June debate will be the earliest ever.
If Trump actually does the debates, I’m sorta wondering if he’ll try a gotcha stunt like whipping out the early dementia cognitive test that he thinks shows how smart he is and challenging Biden to take it on the stage.
Trump almost immediately started laying the ground work to chicken out of the debate:
And I do not think there ever was a debate season where the final debate was a full eight weeks before election day.
Uncertain voters vote on election day, or not much before. I’m mystified at the logic here.
I saw one pundit say that in some states, mail-in voting may start before the traditionally scheduled debates. I haven’t bothered to verify whether that’s true, but if that’s the case the debate performances would be on record before any votes are cast.
If someone is disengaged and undecided for that long … they’re not gettable by any debates at any time. Really don’t think that cohort would follow the debates at all.
I don’t buy or understand the idea either that Biden should want fewer debates. With each debate, his maturity is put on camera against Trump’s immaturity in front of an audience of a hundred million viewers. Unless Biden is extremely fatigued or in cognitive/physical decline, he should want as many debates as possible.
I agree. Maybe he’s taking the Brer Rabbit approach: “Please, Donny, just two debates!”, so Donny will insist on more, which Biden will “reluctantly” agree to.
Except, with every debate, he personally has to put up with Trump’s shit. It’s bad enough seeing it on TV while getting drunk. Imagine what it’s like being Biden, stuck in there, completely sober, with no mute button or channel surfing.
Yeah, it’s got to be enormously frustrating to “debate” someone who does nothing but boast and lie and knowing that absolutely nothing you say will a) slow him down or make him concede a point or b) convince people that he’s doing nothing but boasting and lying.
In a journal debate, one ultimately grounded in facts, you score points by catching your opponent in inconsistencies or falsehoods and hammer into them. With Trump, everything is a lie and he doesn’t care if you point it out.
Or you find ways to crank up the pathos, like when Biden wrecked Sarah Palin in the VP debate. But that won’t slow him down either.
And his core audience eats it up.
Well, one of the two major parties believes the President has total immunity in everything he does, from birth, through his administration, to death. So under that aegis Biden could create some vacancies in SCOTUS and fill them even, per precedent set in 2020, in the final weeks of the campaign.
Do I sound bitter? Fuckin’ A I do.
Apologies if this has already been shared. I’m sure the GOP won’t make this a big deal at all.
They spin it either way.
They can selectively release bits and pieces of the interview (almost certainly the bits when he gets emotional about his son) to make him look weak and unsure.
Or they don’t get the audio and say there’s something nefarious going on.
Unless they actually have a legitimate reason they want it, blocking the release is probably the best of a bunch of not good options.
Sudden thought: With the early debates, whoever it is that adds accordion sounds to Trump’s hand gestures would have ample time to post those before the election.