Posted on 12/12/2019 5:24:59 PM PST by yesthatjallen
President Trump has been discussing with his campaign advisers whether or not to participate in the general election debates in 2020, two people close to the situation told The New York Times.
According to the sources, Trump doesn't trust the Commission on Presidential Debates, the nonprofit organization that puts on the debates. Specifically, Trump is apprehensive of who will be chosen by the organization to moderate the debates, the Times reports.
Trump's campaign reportedly declined to comment on what their plan was for the debates at a state-of-the-race campaign briefing in Arlington, Va.
During the 2016 campaign, the president persistently complained about his debates with former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, claiming that he was put at a disadvantage.
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If Plugs is the nominee, I think watching him debate Trump would be hilarious, enormously entertaining. If you thought Gore was a buffoon when he debated Bush, just imagine the epic level of buffoonery from Plugs.
I would predict Trump would trigger Plugs over and over to the point where Plugs would melt down and try to take a swing at Trump LMAO LMAO.
He can will by boycotting them and just barnstorming from venue to venue, nationwide.
Laying in broadside after broadside, from all directions.
He has shown a unique ability for marathon.
Ancient history ... no longer relevant
That's what I want to see.
Ignoring the debates and their candidate would infuriate Democrats.
Let Trump spend his time at rallies.
Let the Democratic nominee stand alone on national television ranting about how Trump won't debate him (or her).
“Let Hannity and Levin moderate one”
Nay, let Rush moderate a series of 3.
Or boycott.
He’s right, who would moderate it? Mark Levin? Rush? Yeah, never in a million years would they allow them, so you know it’s going to be leftists. Chris Wallace, and everyone at CNN. I think this is a good idea. Let them debate themselves. All the candidates are boring as hell and nobody is going to watch it
Great idea - the debates are rigged by the RAT media.
Hannity would interrupt all answers while Levin would act more like a prosecutor.
Agree. He doesnt know when to shut his pie hole. Ive noticed that the only person he wont talk on top of is Levin. Im guessing that Levin has informed Hannity that if he does it to him he will get up and walk.
Let Trump negotiate each candidate gets to pick 1 or 2 moderators to ask the questions.
Democrats would scream bloody murder.
I keep thinking there will be another Candy Crowley moment, or instead of the moderator siding with one side or the other, all the questions will be leaked to the Democrat candidate beforehand.
I disagree. I think Trump saved his campaign in the post Access Hollywood debate. Great performance.
And that is a fact, Donna Brazille got caught giving the questions to Hitlery. And did anyone go to jail...? No...
More than 3 years in, and thy still haven't read his book!
Fine by me. I hate those stupid things.
PDJT will not get fair shake from the Commission on Presidential Debates. By refusing to participate, he could negotiate the terms
If it is Biden, let them do pushups.
I don’t trust anything from The Shrill.
I’ll wait for POTUS to say this.
“I keep thinking there will be another Candy Crowley moment, or instead of the moderator siding with one side or the other, all the questions will be leaked to the Democrat candidate beforehand.”
Have a Lincoln-Douglas style debate, PDJT would dominate.
Shocks are good—they keep the Democrats off guard and gets their media hacks to scream wildly and incoherently (while complaining that Trump is not acting Presidential). ;-)
Classic Alinsky stuff.
No moderators—I like it.
Nobody wants to hear the moderators.
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