I believe it's a good idea.
It would infuriate Democrats and the media.
I can see the media holding monologues with Biden alone on stage and him rambling on and on and growing angrier and angrier that Trump is ignoring him and isn't taking him seriously.
President Trump should offer to appear at three one-on-one debates with no moderators. Each debate will focus on a primary theme, but the candidates will be free to wander if they wish. Topics would likely be 1) the economy/trade, 2) foreign policy/immigration, 3) health care/race relations. Side topics would likely be 1) taxes/climate change, 2) government corruption/drain the swamp, 3) gun control/crime.
Each candidate is given 60 minutes of time to use as they wish. Think of a giant chess clock, where the candidate presses a button when they finish and the clock automatically starts for the opponent. When a person's time is up, they are finished and the other person gets to use their remaining time un-rebutted.
When nobody has any time left, the debate is over.
The first debate would be a free-for-all as the candidates would likely forget about time-management and be all over the place. Disputes might arise, candidates would interrupt and talk over the other, one might just press the button to start the other's clock out of frustration. The bottom line is that the candidates will learn to police themselves during the debate.
The second debate would be better, but probably over-compensated in time management, resulting in sound-bites with no elaboration.
The third debate would be the clincher, where the most savvy candidate would have gotten their act together and figured out how to pull off the total package.
President Trump has already been perfecting this with his helicopter press conferences. He's been willing to meet with an adversarial press frequently and already knows how to think on his feet, as opposed to his predecessors who preferred the controlled optics environment where everything was scripted in advance.
-PJ
At the start of any negotiation: show you’re willing to walk away.
Just put I out there to drive them nuts
Good idea. Why give face time to a bunch of douchebag-liberals? We hired Trump to fix the horrible condition Obama and his party left us in.
Mixed feelings.
I think Trump could probably use it to his advantage. I think there’s always a chance to appeal to folks and explain what he believes is doing and such,...
If he doesn’t it becomes a socialist media/politician love-fest totally one sided and the media helping out their socialist pals....
That also might p1ss off a lot of people and get more to Trump just vecause they finally wake up to jow horrible the demtards and the demtard media are...
Dunno.
It’s obvious the author is trying to make it look like the President is afraid to debate....has anyone here noticed any fear in him?
Maybe it should be a rule that the incumbent gets to choose the debate venue and the moderators.
bookmark
Should should lay down terms.
1. The debates may be shown on TV and ought to be shown on TV but no news organization hosts any of the debates.
2. No one from the media is allowed to be the person asking the candidates any questions.
3. The choice of who will ask questions to the candidates is a choice consented to by both parties.
GREAT Idea, honesty is the best policy and the corrupt media should not be rewarded. I did this locally one year and boycotted the League of (all Democrat) Women voters debates and got huge media. Trump should do a Q&A on FOX and allow the people to ask sensible real questions, don't accept anything like "How will you save the world environment from ending the world in 12 years"?