Not debating will also help Trump. It will be construed as a lack of mental fitness for the job and would be almost impossible to spin, except on MSNBC and CNN.
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“Not debating will also help Trump. It will be construed as a lack of mental fitness for the job and would be almost impossible to spin, except on MSNBC and CNN.”
This is true. Not debating will indeed hurt Biden. But debating will hurt even more. Dems like Lockhart are evil but not stupid. They know that Biden is no longer capable of functioning in a debate setting with Trump. To all a debate is to proceed is to admit for all the world to see that Biden isn’t up to the job. A media-driven offensive that Biden is “taking the high ground,” “not giving Trump a platform for his lies,” etc is risky and likely rejected by the less gullible portion of the electorate, but even if it fools only a small portion of the voters, that’s better for them than the alternative. I don’t think Biden will debate.
The Trump would relentlessly hammer home the failure of Biden to debate.