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Brad's avatar

Avoiding debates with Trump is a bad idea and not a winning political tactic. Up till now Trump’s entire campaign has been based on asserting that Biden has diminished metal capacity allowing him to be a captive of sinister, radical forces. Biden wins when he shows up and gives a solid, lucid and intelligent performance destroying Trump’s attempt to advance that narrative no matter what the liar-in-chief says. Debating a liar is also the perfect opportunity to point out and undercut those lies. Trump doesn’t do well when confronted. The Wallace and Swan interviews prove you have to go right at this phony con man, not let him say what he wants without any pushback. That’s when he looks like a babbling idiot, you’ve got to challenge him and knock him off his game. If Biden didn’t debate he’d look really weak to many voters and hand Trump a gift of an issue when he is a floundering candidate put in a corner by a pandemic he can’t and won’t do anything to mitigate. Biden will stand up there acting like a real POTUS, look in the camera and tell the American people what he is going to do with a national strategy for beating Covid. When he says Trump can lie all he wants but over 200,000 of our citizens, friends, co-workers and relatives are dead I think its game over.

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Lou's avatar

If Biden opts out, then Trump and company will say he's afraid to debate him. I like your idea of holding his taxes over the debate but Trump will never present the evidence of why he is beholden to Putin. And of course if Biden makes one faux-pas per Trumps constant lies, all we'll hear about is how Biden screwed up. It's a no win scenario. If it helps the media make it a race, even in their own narrative, then they will have accomplished what they set out to do. The media wants a horserace. The polls are showing a landslide. Debates that, again in the media's mind, show a weakened Biden is what they desire to make the race for the White House appear to be close. And that plays well for Trump who is already stoking the flames of a dishonest election. Geez, how'd we get here?

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