Posted on 08/29/2020 3:24:11 PM PDT by Libloather
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The Commission on Presidential Debates will host three presidential debates and one vice-presidential debate later this year. As is tradition, the debates to be held at universities.
The first presidential debate, when the incumbent President Trump will face off against Joe Biden for the first time, was to be held on Tuesday, September 29 at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. In late July, the institution withdrew from hosting due to concerns about the pandemic.
"I am grateful to the many members of the University community who have devoted countless hours planning this event, and to the Commission on Presidential Debates leadership for their professionalism and understanding," said Rev. John Jenkins, the president of Notre Dame, in a statement, per CNN. "But in the end, the constraints the coronavirus pandemic put on the event -- as understandable and necessary as they are -- have led us to withdraw."
The first debate will now be held at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
Similarly, the second presidential debate was expected to take place at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Thursday, October 15, but in June, they too withdrew from hosting the event due to health concerns amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis.
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The replacement location for the second debate is Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami. The final debate is still set for Thursday, October 22 at Belmont University in Nashville.
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I doubt it will happen.
So if they do the switcheroo and put Hillary on the ticket last minute, would the early votes for Biden/Harris be thrown out?
There aren't going to be any debates.
Biden will never debate Trump.
My prediction has been that first, either Jill or one of the grandchildren will have CoV-19. Joe will need to quarantine for this. Next debate, Joe will be CoV-19 positive with a fever. Viola! Two debates eliminated. Easy as pie.
It’s never happened before. Watch out for the dirty tricksters -
And if something happened after the convention but before the election, there’s a plan for that, too - national party committees would step in. After the election, though, things get murkier, as it’s uncertain how the result would work out in the Electoral College.
Thank you...and we know there will be dirty tricktsers.
If HoJo refuses a debate, Trumps people need to create the mother of all mock fake debates and really make the fake HoJo look really really really stupid
Yup
bust
‘...the institution withdrew from hosting due to concerns about the pandemic.”
So this is the strategy. Mi and ND are both totally in the tank for Biden. The venues will say we just cannot host the debate because of virus. Giving Bide cover. It’s preposterous of course the room could be empty except for moderators but MSM will do all it can to help the scam. There will be no debate.
I’ve been saying the same thing.
If Biden won’t debate Trump should make a commercial with questions he chooses then answer and then have any empty chair answer what Biden would say... Like on reparations and ANTIFA
Trump is such a showman that he could really do this.
“pelosi said that President Trump doesn’t deserve a debate.”
Yep - prompted me to tweet that The People deserve a debate to show how she “prioritizes”.
Keep in mind the debates aren’t real debates - they never have been.
The debates are fake news ambush attacks on whoever is the Republican.
Biden will gladly debate - it is to the Democrat’s advantage to have a fake news “debate“.
All this feigned reluctance is just a way of lowering expectations for Biden.
He will show up (pumped full of pharmaceuticals) and, as long as he doesn’t forget where he is and take his pants off or something, he will be declared winner by the fake news.
We should be raising expectations for Biden.
We should be talking him up as the ultimate debater - the master debater
Wow. I think you are definitely ON to something here. I'll bet this will happen...
December 1
Victims of domestic abuse said it was too painful to watch Biden debate.
They could not watch Biden act out their abuse.
VP Joe Biden reminded them of their abusers’ tactics
<><> the smirking,
<><> the put-downs,
<><> the laughing when they tried to make a serious point,
<><> not listening to their concerns.
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