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Reposting my thoughts from this morning:

Trump has a point. Why go on the network wall to wall with Trump hating reporters, when Kamala couldn’t be bothered to.
If I were playing 4-d chess with Harris, I'd be thinking that Trump was setting up a big trap for Kamala here. Hear me out...
Trump and Harris agree to a debate on Harris-friendly ABC as her first "coming out" party.
Harris has been promising to either:
Have a sit-down interview or a press conference with reporters "by the end of the month," or...
Announce her plans to have a sit-down interview or a press conference with reporters "by the end of the month.
Either way, her surrogates have been planting the line that "Harris will engage with reporters, but in her own time... when she's ready..."
Let's assume for the sake of argument that Harris was never going to sit for an interview or press conference, and instead was going to let the debate in friendly territory be her substitute for a press conference. Harris could plausibly tell reporters (and voters) "I already said everything that needs to be said in the debate with Donald Trump. I don't need to say it again to reporters."
If President Trump now throws the ABC News debate into question, that will rob Harris of the cover of the debate as her excuse for avoiding a press conference. In the meantime, she's wasted precious time preparing for a press conference because she was preparing to debate Trump instead.
If Harris tries to call Trump "afraid" to have a debate, Trump can reply with Harris being afraid to hold a press conference with reporters. Trump can point out all the press conferences he has held, including with hostile groups. Trump can say that Harris has been promising to have a press conference for longer than she's agreed to debate, so who's the one who's afraid here?
Trump should insist that Harris hold a press conference first, because she hasn't stated her policies in the convention, she hasn't put her policies on her website, she hasn't explained her policies in interviews, and she hasn't defended her policies in a press conference with reporters.
What is there for President Trump to debate, if Harris is thinking she's going to walz into the debate as an open-ended book and just attack Trump's positions while having stated none of her own in advance? What's the point of even showing up?
Then hammer Harris for trying to run an empty campaign that is based on nothing but attacks against Trump without standing up for anything of her own, and that he's not going to be a party to that.
Trump should say that the American people already know everything there is to know about Trump, and nothing at all about Harris. Then say that the reason that Harris has nothing to say is that there is nothing there. She's an empty suit that was propped up by the Democrats because they hid the true nature of Joe Biden from the American people, and Harris was front and center in that cover-up.
Trump should finish by saying, "Reject the Democrat scam, reject Harris, and vote to make American great again by electing Donald J. Trump for president!"

-PJ