Posted on 05/08/2023 6:53:03 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
President Donald Trump "will win any debate," but by taking them on, he also would go into a rigged system stacked against him, campaign spokeswoman Liz Harrington said on Newsmax Saturday.
"I think the major point is, he doesn't mind debating," Harrington told Newsmax's "Saturday Report."
"Everyone knows President Trump will win any debate and the people want to see him."
But the debate structure means networks are being chosen that have tried to set him up in the past, she insisted.
"They're choosing the Reagan Library," said Harrington. "That would maybe sound great in the past, but it's run by the publisher of The Washington Post. I mean, why should [Trump] subject himself to something that is so rigged against him? I think that's the point he's making."
Trump spoke out this week against the plans for the upcoming GOP primary debates after it was announced that the first one will take place in Milwaukee this August, with the second debate to be held at an unspecified date at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum in Simi Valley, Calif.
"I see that everybody is talking about the Republican Debates, but nobody got my approval, or the approval of the Trump Campaign, before announcing them," Trump wrote on his Truth Social page. "When you're leading by seemingly insurmountable numbers, and you have hostile Networks with angry, TRUMP & MAGA hating anchors asking the 'questions,' why subject yourself to being libeled and abused?"
"We'll see what happens, but he's certainly not afraid to debate and the American people see that he's clearly the front runner and deserves this nomination," Harrington said.
Meanwhile, Harrington, while comparing Trump's latest speeches and interviews with President Joe Biden's presidential campaign announcement, said there is "no comparison" between them.
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Yeah, Trump is better off sticking to safe venues/formats like CNN Town Halls.
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He can handle that event/venue/host no prob.
She’s right. But I still think Trump should participate in the debates. Let the people see, yet again, just how hard the establishment wants to take him down.
The debate itself isn’t the problem.....
The “PROBLEM” is the moderators & the questions that people like Donna Brazile hand over to Dem candidates.
Bkmk
It’ll be like 2020 all over again - where he had to debate his opponent and the lefty moderator as well (he said this during the debate).
I always wondered why he accepted to go on with these “moderators” in the first place.
Would the Rats accept Tucker Carlson as a moderator?
No. They’d call him a racist and that would be the end of it.
Their candidate would refuse.
Trump should do same with their lefty moderators.
No need for Trump to have a debate he already has one the thing all the rest doesn’t have his record not one president had done so much good in one term as Trump has.
It’s that alone what has the left in grave panic he’s the greatest threat to Marxism push of the left.
Guess why they want to take so much away from you so fast.
Actually,it won't be him who says it,he's incapable of uttering such a cogent statement.It will be his puppet masters at Rat Party Headquarters.
The only people who benefit from presidential debates (primary or national) are the networks! They prove nothing! Shouting “debates debates” lulls people into thinking it’s going to be some form of “Lincoln-Douglas” debate. Its isn’t and never will be, neither party nor the networks would let that happen. It’s a sham and exists only for entertainment!
Each candidate could pick a moderator for half of the debate..Flip a coin to pick podium and starting positions.
Agree it only gives the networks a turn to take their shot of who they don’t like and they ain’t democrats.
Anyone that debates Vivek is taking a huge risk. He is so smart and knows how to deflect less intelligent nonsense.Insults won’t land well on Vivek.
I’d like to see a debate between Vivek and Asa Hutchinson. It would be like a collision between a Mack truck and a Yugo.
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