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NY Times: Biden Should Not Debate Trump Unless
nytimes.com ^ | July 7, 2020 | Thomas L. Friedman

Posted on 07/08/2020 4:49:32 AM PDT by Helicondelta

I worry about Joe Biden debating Donald Trump. He should do it only under two conditions. Otherwise, he’s giving Trump unfair advantages.

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That is not a good way for Biden to reintroduce himself to the American people. And, let’s not kid ourselves, these debates will be his reintroduction to most Americans, who have neither seen nor heard from him for months if not years.

Because of Covid-19, Biden has been sticking close to home, wearing a mask and social distancing. And with the coronavirus now spreading further, and Biden being a responsible individual and role model, it’s likely that he won’t be able to engage with any large groups of voters before Election Day. Therefore, the three scheduled televised debates, which will garner huge audiences, will carry more weight for him than ever.

He should not go into such a high-stakes moment ceding any advantages to Trump. Trump is badly trailing in the polls, and he needs these debates much more than Biden does to win over undecided voters. So Biden needs to make Trump pay for them in the currency of transparency and fact-checking — universal principles that will level the playing field for him and illuminate and enrich the debates for all citizens.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Delaware; US: New York
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1 posted on 07/08/2020 4:49:32 AM PDT by Helicondelta
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so its not enuf that HALFBRAIN gets the questions in
advance?

and its not enuf that his score of controllers will
tell him, in his hidden ear piece, WHAT TO SAY?

and its not enuf that HALFBRAIN could throw up and leave,
and the MSM would still proclaim HALFBRAIN the “winner”?


2 posted on 07/08/2020 4:52:09 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced")
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He should not go into such a high-stakes moment ceding any advantages to Trump. Trump is badly trailing in the polls, and he needs these debates much more than Biden does...”

This makes no sense to me. It sounds hysterical.


3 posted on 07/08/2020 4:52:14 AM PDT by TalBlack
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To: TalBlack

In fact it runs contrary to how the piece opens. Insane.


4 posted on 07/08/2020 4:54:56 AM PDT by John W (Trump/Pence 2020)
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To: Helicondelta

Already predicted. NYTimes taking point for him. He would be slaughtered by Trump in a debate and they all know it.


5 posted on 07/08/2020 4:55:01 AM PDT by melsec (There's a track, winding back, to an old forgotten shack along the road to Gundagai..)
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To: TalBlack

Nothing written in the NYT makes any sense to me.


6 posted on 07/08/2020 4:55:10 AM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: TalBlack

For the 1000th time...badly trailing in the polls is meaningless garbage.


7 posted on 07/08/2020 4:55:52 AM PDT by albie
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To: Helicondelta

BIDEN for MEMORY CARE 2019!


8 posted on 07/08/2020 4:55:55 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (mohammed was a slaver: Burn the Koran!)
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To: Helicondelta

“And with the coronavirus now spreading further, and Biden being a responsible individual and role model, it’s likely that...”

SOMEBODY SHOOT ME, PLEASE!


9 posted on 07/08/2020 4:56:05 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Helicondelta

Still think Trump should offer to debate Biden’s VP pick.
Biden will be gone anyway, why waste the time?


10 posted on 07/08/2020 4:56:05 AM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To no surprise, the traitorous enemedia is starting to spout their lies and excuses why there will be no presidential debates between President Trump and Vegetablejoe.

And to no surprise, the lie is “It’s Trump’s fault.”


11 posted on 07/08/2020 4:58:10 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: mosaicwolf

Easily translated, what this arse is really saying: “My candidate, Biden, has Alzheimer’s, dementia, and is senile. He can’t speak a decent English sentence after one minute much less handle volleys of questions (from Trump, not the helpful panelists like “Candy” Crowley). Americans haven’t been paying attention to why this mediocre man has been hidden away and if he has to debate, the truth will emerge.’


12 posted on 07/08/2020 4:58:28 AM PDT by laconic
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To: Helicondelta

Trump should not debate Biden with debate “moderators.”


13 posted on 07/08/2020 4:59:02 AM PDT by anton
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To: Diogenesis

and the MSM would still proclaim HALFBRAIN the “winner”?


More or less they already have.


14 posted on 07/08/2020 4:59:23 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Helicondelta

You put a man with a mental decline like Biden’s in a special care facility for that problem. You do not put a lost soul like that into the White House Oval Office.

The whole world must be laughing at this absurdity.

Biden is a pathetic candidate being propped up by panicked and desperate people.


15 posted on 07/08/2020 5:00:26 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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This is the media (and democrats, by extension) conceding that, Biden is incapable of holding his own in a debate, much less lead a country.

With his first sentence, Trump would eat him up immediately.

The farce of the polls is something that not even democrats believe, and the media is dreading the first time that Biden leaves his bunker and does any kind of campaigning.


16 posted on 07/08/2020 5:03:17 AM PDT by adorno
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To: melsec

Biden — when awake — is terrified of a Trump debate. He won’t do more than three, and now they’re already looking for an out.

The worse thing that can happen to Biden now is to put him in front of people and talk away from his teleprompters.

This is the start of the drumbeat. Expect a buildup until the debates are cancelled in lieu of televised individual townhalls...


17 posted on 07/08/2020 5:04:32 AM PDT by Magnatron
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Trump is badly trailing in the polls ...

2016, BREXIT and many others have proven that the only poll that is honest is at the ballot box. This is the LEFT Drumbeat, we must have ALL OF THE ADVANTAGES for 2020. Keep the economy down, minimal debates, no Trump crowds, mail-in voting wherever possible along with ballot harvesting. If we don't get what we want, says the LEFT, then this election, if Trump wins, is INVALID and he must be IMPEACHED AGAIN, IMMEDIATELY!

18 posted on 07/08/2020 5:06:53 AM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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ah yes because the polls were right last time, oh and explain to me NY Times why anyone should vote for this man who clearly has no idea what is going on, who never takes questions from a non biased media, who has not said what his platform is.

In essence NY Times how about voting for something instead of voting against because some cannot get over they lost last time.


19 posted on 07/08/2020 5:08:45 AM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: moovova

weird how they never said anything about social distancing about the rioters, one would think they are very biased. Massive sarc


20 posted on 07/08/2020 5:10:28 AM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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