Does anybody think there are going to be debates?
Democrats have absolutely nothing to win from the debates. And the moderators simply can’t spend all of the time at the debate asking, “how come your opponent is such a racist, Mr Biden? And how come you are such an anti-racist? Do you both completely denounce racism? And now to a really important point, how do both of you feel about racism? Especially Mr Trump who is an avowed racist? Now let’s talk about the economy. How is it impacted by racism especially given that Mr Trump is a total racist?” They’ll have to ask at least a couple genuine questions.
So, what are the two conditions Dems should set in order to have a debate?? You do not list them.
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Who cares? Even if Trump meets them (although why should he if nobody else has?), there will be two more and so on into infinity.
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It’s not that hard. They can always ask him about his homophobia or when he became a Russian agent.
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(Pasted from the NYT article:)
“First, Biden should declare that he will take part in a debate only if Trump releases his tax returns for 2016 through 2018…
“And second, Biden should insist that a real-time fact-checking team approved by both candidates be hired by the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates — and that 10 minutes before the scheduled conclusion of the debate this team report on any misleading statements, phony numbers or outright lies either candidate had uttered. That way no one in that massive television audience can go away easily misled.” (italics added by me.)
The second condition is so pie-in-the-sky idiotic that only a NYT liberal political opinion writer like Friedman (who is well known for his nutty ideas) could come up with it. Apparently, Friedman has forgotten that Biden lies, embellishes his accomplishments, and mis-remembers fantasy events at least as much as Trump.
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