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Biden had a plan to sucker Trump into an early debate to shake up the race. I give the win to Biden on that,” longtime GOP political hand MIKE MURPHY told Playbook. “The bottom line: Two guys in a studio with no audience is the hardest debate, and it’s the most revealing. That’s what Biden wants. And round one, he’s getting it.”
BUT, BUT, BUT: While it may seem like Mr. Art of the Deal got played, we weren’t hearing much remorse from the Republicans we spoke with last night. Far from it.
Trump’s team is projecting confidence and gloating that Biden actually fell into their trap. The former president has been a broken record, insisting he’ll debate Biden “anytime, anywhere, anyplace” and pressuring the president to accept.
Biden’s Rules :
Biden chooses the Moderators - done deal in less than 2 hours, when means it was agreed in advance.
Biden chooses the Venue— NO College Campus, no Audience at all.
Biden chooses that Trumps mic will be off when Biden is speaking. I didn’t find anything about .Biden’s mic.
Interesting that Nate Silver claims the Media will not care about these Debates.
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Originally Posted by hotkarl
They’ll twist that and say he’s trying to avoid a debate.
C’mon man.
That appears to be the plan. TeamBiden says Biden has to debate in view of his poor polling AND his constant talk of “democracy (very tiny “d”) — so the deck is stacked against Trump and they hope he won’t agree.
Biden and Trump agree to debates. And then debate about more debates.- Politico The president’s team had wrestled for months as to how to approach the debates. Senior advisers felt that they could not skip them, as the reelection campaign has been positioning itself as the one pushing for democracy and transparency, according to two advisers not authorized to discuss internal conversations. Moreover, it would fuel talk that Biden wasn’t up for the rigors of the job itself.
By jumping out first to frame the stakes of the debate, Biden aides felt that they boxed in Trump: the Republican will either have to agree to terms he does not favor – like debating without an audience – or later pull the plug and look like he is ducking Biden, the advisers said.
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Originally Posted by Wapasha
I think Biden wants debates while these bogus court cases hang over Trump's head. If Biden waits until September or October, these cases will be exposed for what they are, and dismissed or made irrelevant.
Plus Trump has gag orders preventing him from saying certain things, Biden knows he can benefit from this by bringing up these things and watch Trump squirm and be unable to comment or defend himself.
That’s all True - I actually believe that Debates should ALWAYS be before Voting starts. The Democrat Party has not agreed with that until now. The Trump Witch Hunts are clearly the reason for early Debates.
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Originally Posted by crone
It was Donna Brazile acting on her own, not as an employee.
Let’s Review: Donna Brazile WAS an Employee of CNN, that exactly HOW she got the Debate questions before the Debate to pass them unethically to Hillary Clinton. She couldn’t have possibly done that without being a CNN employee. Her relationship with the Democrat Party and Hillary Clinton was well known. CNN is culpable because Brazile was ALLOWED access to the questions. She didn’t break into a Safe to get those questions.
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Originally Posted by Ponderosa
You can be sure that Trump will threaten to pull out over one thing or another including audience in the next month. Biden should hold firm. These audiences are nothing but a bunch of campaign operatives, donors, and hacks that add nothing.
That is certainly the TeamBiden Plan — I bet it doesn’t work, their big Plans fir “ We got HIM now” have failed.
Too many stipulations which in itself shows how worried staffers are about Biden and his capabilities. An audience cheering or booing would throw Biden off script. Everyone thinks he be getting stimulants my guess they'll put him on some kind of steroid or hormone therapy. Either way and 80 year old body can only handle so many chemicals.
They'll also try to gin him up with anger. I've seen dementia patients become sharper when angry, they still get things wrong but they are much sharper in the present. But again can his 80 year old body take that.
it's hilarious watching doddering dotard xoe pretend to be a tough guy throwing down the gauntlet to trump, when in reality it was trump who challenged HIM months ago.
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Originally Posted by crone
It was Donna Brazile acting on her own, not as an employee.
This will be fun. I'll have my popcorn ready. Hopefully they don't get questions up front nor will they be allowed to read off teleprompters or note cards....I'm talking to you Biden. And we'll need a non-biased moderator.
President Biden said Wednesday that he will not participate in the decades-old tradition of three fall meetings organized by the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates, instead calling on his Republican rival Donald Trump to join him for two televised presidential debates in June and September.
Another link:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-says-hell-debate-trump-twice-make-my-day-2024-05-15/
WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he is willing to debate Republican presidential rival Donald Trump twice before the Nov. 5 election.
"Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020. Since then he hasn't shown up for a debate," Biden said in a video message posted on X. "Now he's acting like he wants to debate me again. Make my day pal. I'll even do it twice."
The Democratic president took a swipe at Trump's legal troubles in the video with an oblique reference to the court schedule in Trump's hush money trial in New York.
There were six edits in Biden's 13 second video to challenged Trump to a debate.
If Biden cannot even issue a challenge to a debate in one cut, then what chance does he have to pull off a live debate? There will not be anyone there to cut, paste and edit for him?
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