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Of course he’s afraid to debate Kamala. She’s a prosecutor and he’s a convicted felon.
He should be afraid. She'll run laps around him.
she already does ☞ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3gU-OLyrEA
only 1:17
That clip makes me remember what it is like to smile again
Absolutely unrelated to the video, but Youtube comments are something else man...
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Ultimately, it's his call.
This is checks calendar 2024. Candidates don't need to debate, they all have to agree to it. If Trump doesn't want to debate, then it's not going to happen unless they basically give into his demands, because ignoring debates no longer looks bad (which is insane, but here we are).
It's not that he needs to do the debate, but he did the first because it fed his ego of being a strong man. So, him having to back out of the debate without having a scapegoat will eat at his ego of a strong man. So this word salad he spews setting the stage to duck the debate is as about rationalizing it to his ego far more than any real campaign reasoning. Trump does everything for Trump, and this whole campaign is largely about getting in the White House so he can stay out of the big house (prison).
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It still very much looks bad. You come across as spineless, especially if you’re not way ahead in the polls.
Oh it looks bad, just not to an insane 30% of Americans who avoid reality as much as they can
I think debates don't really matter anymore because what these people say and do is reported on constantly all day every day. That wasn't how it used to be.
If debates didn't matter, Biden would still be the nominee.
You know that the debate response had nothing to do with the debate topics or responses. Any other press conference that day would have likely had the same response. It wasn't what he was saying that was the problem.
True, but until then, the Biden campaign had done a pretty decent job of keeping a lid on his condition. The debate made it impossible to hide any longer. They just had to YOLO him out there and pray it wouldn't be a fucking disaster.
Any other press conference that day would have likely had the same response.
He's done a decent number press conferences before and since that debate and has seemed perfectly capable during all of them, but the big difference is the debate is a 90 minute event in the evening when Sundowners hits hard, and most if not all of those press conferences have been around mid-day when he's reportedly most lucid. Anyone who's cared for or been around aging individuals with dementia can tell from the debate that he has dementia and its progressed pretty far
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Debates don't matter and that is a prime example. Trump gave no coherent answers while Biden was able to answer all but 2 questions. Yet the response was as if biden answered 0 questions and Trump intellectually ran circles around him.
They do matter because a debate can show a lot more than just answers. For example, I think for a lot of folks, the lowest point was when they started arguing about fucking golf. It showed pretty much everyone that these guys are both just utterly divorced from the real problems facing Americans. Most everyone I know IRL was just disgusted with both candidates by that moment. That nobody cared Trump lied isn't a surprise. It'd be like being surprised that the sun rose in the east. It's what Trump does, he's a bullshit artist and everyone knows it, even the people who vote for him. That debate didn't really change anyone's evaluation of Trump. What was a surprise was Joe coming on the stage and just being an unintelligible mess. He did kind of get it together in the back half, but by then, the damage was done. That debate did change plenty of people's evaluation of Biden, myself included.
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That's not necessarily represenative of how they act in person, spontaneously.
I go in assuming all social media is basically a lie.
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He would be giving her an entire hour of free prime time media.
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They should have changes, indeed. Like, before each new topic round, they should show short clips with fact checking the last debates' statements on that topic.
They should have changes, indeed. Like, before each new topic round, they should change trump’s adult diaper.
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Many people are saying that not only is dementia donnie afraid to debate a girl, but that he's also just too old and should just drop out.
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Literally nobody on the face of the earth, thinks that he isn't afraid.
He probably is afraid. He doesn't get a rich people handicap, though. He can't just pencil in any score like he does when he cheats at golf. As for reimbursement, L to the O to the L on that one. Maybe the GOP should "reimburse" all the people who died from COVID because they listened to Trump's dumb advice about taking aquarium cleaner to cure it.
Wasn't that the problem with the first debate? CNN made it as cushy as possible for Trump while putting Biden at a disadvantage. They didn't fact check all of Trump's lies, because why should a news channel report facts?
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Run little donnie, run. You useless fuckwad.
Trump whenever someone asks him to debate Kamala
When he is asking for changes its more than claims. People don't do things for no reason and fear is the only valid reason.
President Pee-pee Pants needs his diaper changed.
I am altering the deal, pray I don’t alter it any further.
So he wants accommodations. Sounds like something a snowflake beta male would want lmao. Dealing with prosecutors must trigger him after that trial
terrified trump shaking in his shoes
Shaking in his lifted clown shoes
Damn... I can't wait to see her rip him a couple new ones
He came out far on top in the last debate, doesn't seem like he has any justification to make changes.
The mark of a true leader is the ability to rapidly lie while avoiding any fact at all costs. /s
Trump should definitely wear his extra strength diaper when he takes the debate stage with Harris.
He's demanding permission to go hard r on love tv
The cop versus the robber. Of course he's scared.
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