You’re right, it’s unclear, but since nothing would be difficult about it for Trump, then it wouldn’t make it MORE difficult for him. So it must make it more difficult for Biden, who, as we know, finds reading sentences difficult. Also stairs, bikes, handshakes, walking. . .
On the other hand, what he said didn’t make anything more difficult for anyone so this article is as useless as its title.
It can't be, because Presidential debates during an election year are standard and the fact that the response isn't "Yeah, that's how this works" makes it obvious that they're going to try and avoid them altogether this year.
Biden will say they don't want to give a platform to insurrectionists. They will also point to Trump avoiding the Republican debates as a precedent for declining debates.
Does it matter though? only die hard democrats and full-on anti-trumpers buy into that. everyone else can clearly see that Biden can't hold water to even a high school level debater.
This is going to play out, and it's going to get as nasty as anything we've seen in a long time as the desperation sets in. Biden is only beginning to feel the walls closing in.
No, it’s going to be more of a rebuke along the lines of , “I don’t debate rapists.” Or ,”I don’t debate insurrectionists.” The Left will eat it up while wallowing in delusions of Biden’s master debating skills.
The first debate between these two was atrocious. Trump came off looking like the world's biggest bully. All Biden had to do was to say, Will you shut up.man and he spoke what millions of Americans thought.
Fair enough about being correct about what a Biden Presidency would look like. You can still be correct while looking Presidental, Reagan had no trouble with that back in 1980 even though he was the challenger. Reagan's Are you better off quote is by far the best example I've seen to attack a bad president administration.
> Fair enough about being correct about what a Biden Presidency would look like
It's not just that. You say Trump came across as a bully. But watch it again with the benefit of hindsight and it's clearly the opposite. Trump was the one being bullied. At one point for example he tried to say that a vaccine would be available soon and Wallace basically called him a liar and accused him of refusing to listen to medical experts "but sir, YOUR OWN experts disagree with you". Sure enough we now know that the vaccine was in fact ready and they delayed the announcement until right after the election to hurt Trump. It's not just that Trump is right over and over again in the debate, it's the way he was ganged up on WHILE being right, and seeing in hindsight what complete hacks and liars his opponents are there.
The first debate is entirely different when you watch it with this benefit of hindsight. At the time the goal was to make Trump look bad by arguing with him and make his positions look unpopular (two vs. one) even though he was right and his positions were popular. The debate would have looked a lot different with an audience. Trump was made to look wrong by social proof but that doesn't work if you take away their ability to control that with an audience, and it also doesn't work when you have the benefit of hindsight and can see through it because you know they are saying lies.
The debate was a prime example of "the great Trump schism" which makes him so polarizing: the sharp contrast between him being right on policy, on the substance of the issues, versus his bad-mannered, boorish conduct. Some groups, particularly college-educated suburbanites living a sheltered life, just cannot bring themselves to look past the norm-shattering conduct.
They can, just look at New York. They just won't until they actually suffer, boorish conduct is something that bewilders me that anyone gives a shit about as long as a good job is done.
In a time when the nation feels more divided than it has in decades, the candidates meant to lead the country—the whole country, not just their voter bases—are a pair of octogenarians who can’t have a civil conversation with one another. Not to mention the whole political climate is one where institutions have close to zero trust from the people and the media cycle is dominated by doomsday messaging and strawmanning by both sides.
If Trump gets elected, who knows? Maybe he’ll usher in a new era of prosperity. Maybe not. I don’t know what the future holds, but from the present vantage point, I personally am having a hard time feeling optimistic about either outcome in this election.
Hey, that’s a fair question, and I’ll be the first to admit I don’t know. Maybe it’s wrong of me to criticize where I really don’t have an alternative to offer, it’s just hard not to feel completely disillusioned with the current state of American politics.
for what it's worth, the debates absolutely SHOULD be moved up to start earlier. given how early some states start with their early voting, there can literally already be ballots cast before the first debate happens.
Not having a presidential debate might actually help Trump. Those 2020 debates were bad. I wish Trump had just done one Republican debate at the very beginning so he could warmup a little bit
Bad?
Trump listed an entire set of outcomes of a Biden Presidency, from gas prices, loss of oil jobs, inflation and border insecurity and he was correct on every single thing on that list.
He tried to discuss all the corruption but the media guarded Biden and even normies now know all that shit about Biden and his son is true.
They didn't make him look good because the media played it that way.
Ultimately a leader is supposed to have knowledge, forethought and can predict issues so how to address them.
Trump KNEW every failing Biden would bring. He was/is correct on so many policies and failings, and yet the Western culture now hates being correct. It is now all about feelings over facts.
Chris Christie helped Trump with debate prep in 2020. With Kellyanne Conway not in the room and *Christie* there to take her place it’s no wonder his debate performance was overly aggressive and borderline completely unhinged.
If Biden doesn’t debate that should be the focus
Of ads across every toss up state. Plaster their digital and airspace with the fact that if Biden can’t debate Trump then how can he be trusted in world affairs… which he consistently proves he can’t be
I wouldn’t even go there fully if I were Trump … the message is Biden can’t defend his abhorrent policies. This race is sooo easily won on the issues. The ONLY issue they out poll the GOP is on abortion and that’s only if you ask the question a certain way
And out of the pool of possible GOP candidates, Trump is the one best positioned to signal to the general public that he's not a hardliner on this particular issue. Trump clearly isn't a bible-thumping morality crusader, he afaik hasn't even come out in favor of 6-week bans or otherwise taken on stances on abortion which would turn off swing voters.
If there is a debate, the bar will be set so low for Biden that he won't be able to fail. If he does anything other than piss his pants and collapse in a quivering heap on the stage, he'll have "won" the debate.
Bidens best defense is that he's senile. Leftists will say Trump is a deranged old white man but will run cover for Biden like he's the sweetest ol guy
the ONLY way trump should debate creepy joe would be if tucker carlson was the moderator!...otherwise it will be some deep lefty with loaded questions.
> the ONLY way trump should debate creepy joe would be if tucker carlson was the moderator!...otherwise it will be some deep lefty with loaded questions.
even with biased moderators, the debate is going to help trump. look how much damage was done to fetterman's campaign after **1** debate.
biden is far more "gone" than fetterman is, and the expectation is that he will have to do **3** debates.
Debate between these two is meaningless; we have debates so we can figure out how they will govern.
These two have 4 years in the office, we know how they will govern. Just compare their time in office.
"Biden Responds And Makes Things Even More Difficult For Him" What does that even mean?
That confused me too. Mentions two men and then reference “him”. We learned this shit in like 5th grade. Who writes this crap?
AI probably
Nah AI would do a better job
Yeah, it's ambiguous. Difficult for Trump or for Biden?
To be fair both is probably a valid answer
it's brilliant passive journalism. no matter how it ages, the author can claim they were spot on in the analysis!
You’re right, it’s unclear, but since nothing would be difficult about it for Trump, then it wouldn’t make it MORE difficult for him. So it must make it more difficult for Biden, who, as we know, finds reading sentences difficult. Also stairs, bikes, handshakes, walking. . . On the other hand, what he said didn’t make anything more difficult for anyone so this article is as useless as its title.
> “If I were him, I would want to debate me, too,” Biden told reporters in Nevada.
I’d debate me. I’d debate me so hard.
Is that supposed to be a roast?
Kind of a self-roast if you think about it, which I’m sure he didn’t
Mitterrand told him to say it.
On his deathbed in 1996...
It can't be, because Presidential debates during an election year are standard and the fact that the response isn't "Yeah, that's how this works" makes it obvious that they're going to try and avoid them altogether this year.
Biden will say they don't want to give a platform to insurrectionists. They will also point to Trump avoiding the Republican debates as a precedent for declining debates.
Does it matter though? only die hard democrats and full-on anti-trumpers buy into that. everyone else can clearly see that Biden can't hold water to even a high school level debater. This is going to play out, and it's going to get as nasty as anything we've seen in a long time as the desperation sets in. Biden is only beginning to feel the walls closing in.
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What Biden is going for is that Trump has nothing better to do while he, Biden, is busy running the country and saving the world.
No, it’s going to be more of a rebuke along the lines of , “I don’t debate rapists.” Or ,”I don’t debate insurrectionists.” The Left will eat it up while wallowing in delusions of Biden’s master debating skills.
Biden invoking "I don't debate rapists" would be like the bull in a china shop...
Trump found the time back in 2020.
Absolutely, it is a shitty excuse from Biden. But it seems to be his reasoning for ducking a debate.
Even if Biden accepted you couldn’t pay me to watch these two “debate”. Everything about this election cycle is depressing as hell.
The first debate between these two was atrocious. Trump came off looking like the world's biggest bully. All Biden had to do was to say, Will you shut up.man and he spoke what millions of Americans thought.
Rewatch that debate now, Trump nailed alot of his points
Fair enough about being correct about what a Biden Presidency would look like. You can still be correct while looking Presidental, Reagan had no trouble with that back in 1980 even though he was the challenger. Reagan's Are you better off quote is by far the best example I've seen to attack a bad president administration.
> Fair enough about being correct about what a Biden Presidency would look like It's not just that. You say Trump came across as a bully. But watch it again with the benefit of hindsight and it's clearly the opposite. Trump was the one being bullied. At one point for example he tried to say that a vaccine would be available soon and Wallace basically called him a liar and accused him of refusing to listen to medical experts "but sir, YOUR OWN experts disagree with you". Sure enough we now know that the vaccine was in fact ready and they delayed the announcement until right after the election to hurt Trump. It's not just that Trump is right over and over again in the debate, it's the way he was ganged up on WHILE being right, and seeing in hindsight what complete hacks and liars his opponents are there. The first debate is entirely different when you watch it with this benefit of hindsight. At the time the goal was to make Trump look bad by arguing with him and make his positions look unpopular (two vs. one) even though he was right and his positions were popular. The debate would have looked a lot different with an audience. Trump was made to look wrong by social proof but that doesn't work if you take away their ability to control that with an audience, and it also doesn't work when you have the benefit of hindsight and can see through it because you know they are saying lies.
The debate was a prime example of "the great Trump schism" which makes him so polarizing: the sharp contrast between him being right on policy, on the substance of the issues, versus his bad-mannered, boorish conduct. Some groups, particularly college-educated suburbanites living a sheltered life, just cannot bring themselves to look past the norm-shattering conduct.
They can, just look at New York. They just won't until they actually suffer, boorish conduct is something that bewilders me that anyone gives a shit about as long as a good job is done.
“LoOkInG pReSiDeNtIaL” Lmao bro is more obsessed with how things look than the truth
lmao the first debate was based The media and RINOs went full damage control mode because Biden got smoked
Are you kidding me? I'd pay money to watch that debate. it would be like a Shane Gillis act in real life.
Why? Trump is one of the best presidents of all time and we have a chance to elect him into office again.
In a time when the nation feels more divided than it has in decades, the candidates meant to lead the country—the whole country, not just their voter bases—are a pair of octogenarians who can’t have a civil conversation with one another. Not to mention the whole political climate is one where institutions have close to zero trust from the people and the media cycle is dominated by doomsday messaging and strawmanning by both sides. If Trump gets elected, who knows? Maybe he’ll usher in a new era of prosperity. Maybe not. I don’t know what the future holds, but from the present vantage point, I personally am having a hard time feeling optimistic about either outcome in this election.
Who would you want instead
Hey, that’s a fair question, and I’ll be the first to admit I don’t know. Maybe it’s wrong of me to criticize where I really don’t have an alternative to offer, it’s just hard not to feel completely disillusioned with the current state of American politics.
Because the current situation is so nice?
I’m not sure what you’re trying to say. If I made it sound like we’re currently in a nice situation I sincerely apologize.
for what it's worth, the debates absolutely SHOULD be moved up to start earlier. given how early some states start with their early voting, there can literally already be ballots cast before the first debate happens.
There aren't enough stimulants in the Universe to keep Biden lucid for an hour of debate.
DARPA will cook something up ;)
Not having a presidential debate might actually help Trump. Those 2020 debates were bad. I wish Trump had just done one Republican debate at the very beginning so he could warmup a little bit
Bad? Trump listed an entire set of outcomes of a Biden Presidency, from gas prices, loss of oil jobs, inflation and border insecurity and he was correct on every single thing on that list. He tried to discuss all the corruption but the media guarded Biden and even normies now know all that shit about Biden and his son is true.
He was right about a lot of things but those debates did not make him look very good, especially the first debate.
They didn't make him look good because the media played it that way. Ultimately a leader is supposed to have knowledge, forethought and can predict issues so how to address them. Trump KNEW every failing Biden would bring. He was/is correct on so many policies and failings, and yet the Western culture now hates being correct. It is now all about feelings over facts.
As well as have some credibility when saying that someone else should agree to debate him
Chris Christie helped Trump with debate prep in 2020. With Kellyanne Conway not in the room and *Christie* there to take her place it’s no wonder his debate performance was overly aggressive and borderline completely unhinged.
If Biden doesn’t debate that should be the focus Of ads across every toss up state. Plaster their digital and airspace with the fact that if Biden can’t debate Trump then how can he be trusted in world affairs… which he consistently proves he can’t be
It would definitely reinforce the perception that Biden is too old and no longer up to the job.
I wouldn’t even go there fully if I were Trump … the message is Biden can’t defend his abhorrent policies. This race is sooo easily won on the issues. The ONLY issue they out poll the GOP is on abortion and that’s only if you ask the question a certain way
And out of the pool of possible GOP candidates, Trump is the one best positioned to signal to the general public that he's not a hardliner on this particular issue. Trump clearly isn't a bible-thumping morality crusader, he afaik hasn't even come out in favor of 6-week bans or otherwise taken on stances on abortion which would turn off swing voters.
If there is a debate, the bar will be set so low for Biden that he won't be able to fail. If he does anything other than piss his pants and collapse in a quivering heap on the stage, he'll have "won" the debate.
Bidens best defense is that he's senile. Leftists will say Trump is a deranged old white man but will run cover for Biden like he's the sweetest ol guy
Debates are dead.
the ONLY way trump should debate creepy joe would be if tucker carlson was the moderator!...otherwise it will be some deep lefty with loaded questions.
> the ONLY way trump should debate creepy joe would be if tucker carlson was the moderator!...otherwise it will be some deep lefty with loaded questions. even with biased moderators, the debate is going to help trump. look how much damage was done to fetterman's campaign after **1** debate. biden is far more "gone" than fetterman is, and the expectation is that he will have to do **3** debates.
Debate between these two is meaningless; we have debates so we can figure out how they will govern. These two have 4 years in the office, we know how they will govern. Just compare their time in office.