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Trump says he’d debate a GOP rival ‘if it’s very close’
The Hill ^ | 12/22/2023 | BRETT SAMUELS

Posted on 12/22/2023 9:33:24 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Former President Trump said Friday that he’d be willing to debate one of his Republican primary rivals if the race is “very close” after next month’s New Hampshire primary.

He also signaled he would participate in general election debates run by Commission on Presidential Debates, which he has often criticized.

Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt asked Trump if he would do a debate with any of his Republican challengers if there is only one left in the race after the Jan. 23 New Hampshire primary.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: debate; gop; rival; trump
Trump VS Christie would be fun
1 posted on 12/22/2023 9:33:24 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

the left will never allow biden to debate him - now that woudl be interesting if they did-


2 posted on 12/22/2023 9:36:35 AM PST by Bob434
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Christie will never be close

There’s really nothing fun about Christie. He’s a lightweight against Trump haha but really.


3 posted on 12/22/2023 9:39:30 AM PST by stanne
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Close? The only way Trump would be close to 2nd place would be if he died.

/morbid thought


4 posted on 12/22/2023 9:40:31 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Bob434

They’ll let Biden debate Trump. They pump him full of substances and he can perform like a seal. Yes even in 2024.


5 posted on 12/22/2023 9:40:35 AM PST by stanne
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To: stanne

After this primary, maybe Christie can get a job in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.


6 posted on 12/22/2023 9:42:11 AM PST by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: stanne

possibly- he’s gotten worse though even with the drugs and Trump most definitely will point out any foibles by biden and show biden is incompetent to run the country- He’s committing more and more faux pas (sp?)- will they risk him doing a doozy of a mistake on the debate floors?


7 posted on 12/22/2023 9:44:25 AM PST by Bob434
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Mr. Trump, will you now, in front of 30 million people on TV, repudiate and renounce your poisonous, Hitler-like rhetoric about immigrants?”


8 posted on 12/22/2023 9:47:35 AM PST by nwrep
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A Trump debate with gov DeSantis would be educational for,us GOPvoters, Trump is far too afraid of DeSantis to do it.


9 posted on 12/22/2023 10:15:24 AM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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To: Bob434

Oh please. It’s never a debate between the candidates it’s GOP candidate versus the media with the opponent behind the other podium, in Biden’s case, jacked up in whatever substance they give him, in diapers, earbud tapped in, presupplied questions.


10 posted on 12/22/2023 10:25:33 AM PST by stanne
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To: stanne

Biden would lose but the fake news would score it as a win.

Only 10% watch - the other 90% rely on fake news highlights and sound bites designed to throw the win to the Democrat.

Even the 10% that do watch - half of them will wait ti be told who won rafter than judge for themselves.

So few people are independent thinkers - that’s why a debate NEVER helps the front runner if he’s a Republican. Even Reagan vs Mondale in 1984 - Reagan won 49 states - without the debate he might have won all 50! Lol.


11 posted on 12/22/2023 10:39:40 AM PST by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Really good interview with Hewitt this morning. Anyone listening had to be mentally comparing it to Biden’s labored pattern of speech.


12 posted on 12/22/2023 10:41:50 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: enumerated

“…rely on fake news highlights and sound bites designed to throw the win to the Democrat.”

And who is on charge of putting sound bites together


13 posted on 12/22/2023 10:44:36 AM PST by stanne
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Will not be a trial in DC before the 2024 election.


14 posted on 12/22/2023 12:06:05 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Seaplaner

Trump is far too afraid of DeSantis to do it.


desantis supporting nevertrumpers trying to gaslight and spread lies and false information.

With multiple polls showing Trump with multiple times the amount of support in polls that desantis has...

Would anyone except desantis supporters believe Trump is afraid of desantis?

Or are you, seaplaner, going to also say that the polling companies and organizations are all colluding to make Trump the republican presidential candidate, because everyone is afraid of desantis, too?


15 posted on 12/22/2023 12:29:52 PM PST by backpacker_c
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To: backpacker_c

Answer. Trump is afraid to debate governor DeSantis, and it’s there for any honest person to observe.


16 posted on 12/22/2023 7:15:44 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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To: Seaplaner

I don’t think he would want to debate with DeSantis.


17 posted on 12/22/2023 7:19:24 PM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: nwrep

They are not immigrants. They are illegals.


18 posted on 12/23/2023 3:44:07 PM PST by tennmountainman (FUJB)
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