Will Joe Biden Be The First Presidential Nominee In 80 Years To Refuse A Debate?

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Dovekin . . .
Surely we can stop discussing it?
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I think you should ask that question to Nancy Pelosi. Or the L.A. Times. Or The Boston Hearld. Or The New York Times. Or CNN (via a guest of their’s).

(All of which have advocated and/or supported Biden NOT debating President Trump.)

Pelosi says Biden shouldn’t debate Trump​

By Veronica Stracqualursi, Haley Byrd and Clare Foran, CNN

Updated 1:42 PM ET, Thu August 27, 2020

Political analyst makes plea for Biden not to debate Trump 06:23

(CNN)House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden shouldn’t debate President Donald Trump . . .
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The upshot of this is the same as usual.

If it is politically necessary for Biden to debate (if his poll advantage continues to free fall like it has been) he will be forced to take the risk and debate.

If he doesn’t need to, his handlers will attempt to keep him out of the public eye just as they have been doing so far.
 
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I’m kinda surprised this thread is still alive given that the first debate is September 29th.
 
ThinkingSapien . . .
I’m kinda surprised this thread is still alive given that the first debate is September 29th.
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Thank you for your contribution to this thread.
 
We need to avoid falling into the trap in overlooking the primary reason Biden’s handlers fear debates: exposing Biden’s inferiority to Trump on the following issues:

pro-life, appointing Federal Judges, religious liberty and conscience protection, protecting the Electoral College so that Middle America still matters in Presidential Elections, war on poverty, an economic system that best help minorities, freedom to choose private health insurance, school choice for kids in poor school districts, protection against tyrannical government control, freedom of speech, peace through strength, protecting American citizens from drug cartels through the southern border, support for law enforcement, protecting girls from boys in their sports & bathrooms.

To top it off, we’ve got probably the most pro-abortion candidate team ever (Biden/Harris) vs. perhaps the most actively pro-life President.

I have to add that Joe Biden would require a lot of help in any debates:
https://conservativemedia.com/news/joe-biden-appears-reflect-teleprompter-text-tv-interview/


https://www.newsmax.com/politics/teleprompter-campaign-twitter/2020/09/09/id/985984/

On top of all that, Biden/Harris is the most pro-abortion duo
 
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1cthlctrth said:
We need to avoid falling into the trap in overlooking the primary reason Biden’s handlers fear debates: exposing Biden’s inferiority to Trump on the following issues:
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You forget that Joe Biden is not ashamed of his record.

Also, last night’s Town Hall went much better for Biden than Trump’s went for him. An incumbent President always has trouble in the debates because after four years of yes men and sycophants telling him what he wants to hear, suddenly he has to face questions that he actually has to answer.
 
PaulinVA said:
President always has trouble in the debates because after four years of yes men and sycophants telling him what he wants to hear, suddenly he has to face questions that he actually has to answer.
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Yeah, he’s had nothing but praise and adulation for the last 4 years from the press and Congress.
 
My thoughts exactly! President Trump has had to endure non stop interrogations and attacks by the media.I dare say he is far better prepared to defend his record then JB.47 years of nothing to stand on.
 
MikeInVA said:
Yeah, he’s had nothing but praise and adulation for the last 4 years from the press and Congress.
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Uhm, that’s not what I meant. In person interactions and “rallies” disguised as press conferences, he says what he wants. He doesn’t answer questions he doesn’t want to or doesn’t understand.
 
You must watch different press conferences than I do. Most of them are full of angry reporters playing stump the chump, asking nothing but loaded or gotcha questions.
 
I would point out that it’s Joe Biden who consistently refuses to take any questions from the media.
 
I think that the Trump campaign has made a classic political blunder by driving expectations down so low for Biden and so far up for Trump. I have watched both men in press conferences and giving speeches, and (at a minimum) Trump is no better than Biden. Both come across as old and just a bit out of it. Biden at least comes across as knowledgeable, if sometimes a bit scattered. But, because of the Trump campaign’s constant attempts to portray Biden as literally incompetent, if Biden just shows up and strings together sentences it will look like a win. On top of that, if Trump says something really off kilter, or gets obviously confused, it could be a very bad day for his campaign.
 
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1cthlctrth:
We need to avoid falling into the trap in overlooking the primary reason Biden’s handlers fear debates: exposing Biden’s inferiority to Trump on the following issues:
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You forget that Joe Biden is not ashamed of his record.

Also, last night’s Town Hall went much better for Biden than Trump’s went for him. An incumbent President always has trouble in the debates because after four years of yes men and sycophants telling him what he wants to hear, suddenly he has to face questions that he actually has to answer.
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And then there is Joe Biden who has nothing to show during 8 years as VP and however long he has been in
Washington. Except for his close encounters with women in the photo ops and being a bully during the hearings - especially the one with Clarence Thomas.
 
And there is Trump who has 50 years with nothing to show for it except a string of bankruptcies and some inane TV shows. Plenty of sexual associations that have been paid off to be silent. An obsession with crazy conspiracy theories. (Have you ever seen TRUMP’s birth certificate? He must have been born in another country)

If you noticed, Biden won the South Carolina primary with overwhelming support from black voters. This is the result of many years of working for their causes. He was an important person in our recovery from the 2008 recession, using his knowledge of Capitol Hill to get legislation passed.
 
RidgeSprinter . . .
45 days later, he has not refused the debate yet.
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Why put this as a quote from me? (That is wrong.)

I have always said Biden along with his handlers will assess political expediency and decide.

If other people want, I will do the homework and provide the quotes again.
 
Dovekin . . .
And there is Trump who has 50 years with nothing to show for it except a string of bankruptcies and some inane TV shows.
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What do you mean here by “nothing to show”?

Are you commenting on his morality?
If so, do you think Biden’s advocacy for tearing a living innocent infant being born limb from limb is “something to show” morally speaking?

Trump is a work of grace and I am amazed at how much he has changed from back in his Democrat days (which are “the days” you seem to be talking about here).

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If you are talking financially, where is the logic of THAT?

If you are talking politically, President Trump has been in one political race (outside of primaries) against a very formidable political foe (Hillary) and came out of it on top and ended up as President.

Do you think that is REALLY “nothing to show” politically?

What are you talking about when you say Trump has “nothing to show”?

Dovekin . . .
Plenty of sexual associations that have been paid off to be silent.
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Well at least with Stormy Daniels, I don’t think you know that.

Are you putting forth anything other than more accusations here? Or is there something else?

Stormy Daniels Ordered To Pay Trump $293,000 In Fees In Defamation Lawsuit​

December 11, 20186:23 PM ET

Adult film star Stormy Daniels, who says she had a sexual encounter with Donald Trump more than a decade ago, has been ordered to pay him nearly $293,000 for attorneys’ fees and another $1,000 in sanctions after her defamation suit was dismissed.

Earlier this year, a federal judge dismissed Daniels’ defamation case, which she filed over a tweet President Trump sent in April suggesting Daniels was lying about being threatened in 2011 not to go public with her story of an alleged 2006 tryst. Trump denies Daniels’ claims of a past sexual relationship with him. . . .
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