Let the McRomBushes argue amongst themselves.
I personally think Gingrich’s advice is not only bad but crazy, voters want to see their candidates debate each other, in an open forum.
Trump showed up in 2016 and destroyed his rivals and gave himself the momentum to wrap up the nomination fairly quickly.
If he doesn’t go, his opponents will trash him anyway for being scared to face his rivals and any other criticism they can come up with. Trump will be reduced to responding on social media, which you know he will.
Then Trump and his rivals will be in this tit for tat debate war and not over real policy positions.
Yeah, why should he have to explain Omarosa, Cohen, Fauci, Birks, Tillerson, Jared, Scaramucci, Mattis, Sessions, Wray, Barr.. I’m sure there are more. He told us he was going to bring in the best people, but he brought in almost nothing but trash.
I second that!!!
A better idea,,,,
Get Clint Eastwood and some empty chairs and hold his own .
The only reason Trump is perceived as ahead is because he’s been running for months now and has never been challenged to present a program simply because he didn’t have to since nobody else was running or had announced at that point. Now you have everybody from Christie to RFK Jr running and presenting their ideas.
RFK Jr is a libertarian/Dem but will be an attractive candidate to many, especially since Trump seems to be leaning to the liberal side on the “social issues” and thus there’s less difference between him and the Dems on these issues. Most important, RFK Jr is bringing up the unmentionable, which is Trump’s support for and promotion of the vaccines and the shutdown.
Now that more people are officially running, Trump can’t coast along on name recognition, the sympathy he gained from that loony indictment, and his fanatical groupies. Biden apparently also plans to skip debates or even serious interviews.
Both of these old men need to get real. People have a right to know what the candidates think, how they express themselves, and even how they look in a public discussion.
We don’t “owe” our votes to anybody.
The purpose of the debate is to find out what the candidate will do if elected. Trump is already a known entity. Perhaps he can just have a big screen on the stage scrolling all the stats and accomplishments. He can then address anything else via TS afterward.
I think that Trump really enjoyed the debates in 2016, as it gave him the opportunity to belittle his opponents one by one.
I’m not giving my primary vote to anybody who refuses to debate.
2024 is not going to be politics as usual. The Trump years showed us definitively we have no two party system. We have one Uniparty and they did everything they could, and are still trying to this day, to destroy Donald Trump because he dared to change the DC apparatus. Ronnie D and the rest of the Repukes in the race are in there to defeat Trump and defend the status quo in The Swamp.
This is why we lose.
Where is everyone telling Biden he has to debate his challengers?
If Biden skips them, so will Trump.
On the other hand, it would make DeSantis the star of the show.
It used to be the opposite. If you couldn’t score high!enough you were excluded. Amazing how they’ll twist reason to GET Trump. The idea that the lesser candidates won’t get a shot at Trump also comes in to play. Never mind the sheer grotesqueness of openly silencing the front runner.
Trump should schedule a nationally televised rally at the same hours as the Republican debates. See first hand who gets the eyeballs.
You worry about the McRomBushes. I’d worry more about handing Biden a credible reason not to debate in the general election. Not to mention imo the electorate should hear Trumps positions and have them put to the test in the public sphere. Unless you’re concerned Trump’s lead will evaporate in debates. Which imo are one of his strengths.
As much as there is logic in that, I think Trump will because of his all-about-me narcism. He won’t be able to pass up the opportunity to toss it up with everyone for a few headlines. Besides, the Republican party should condition sanction of his candidacy upon his participation. Why not, he didn’t take over the RNC like most presidents.
Newt is right. Trump has a record to run on. Makes no sense being in a so called debate with a bunch of RINO dogs nipping at his heels.
What will all the other non-Trump candidates debate about? Will any of them say “let’s not make America great again, let’s just keep it going the way the left is pushing it”? Or, will they be forced to defend the main planks of the MAGA movement, and then claim they’ll do it better but without mean tweets?
What will all the other non-Trump candidates debate about? Will any of them say “let’s not make America great again, let’s just keep it going the way the left is pushing it”? Or, will they be forced to defend the main planks of the MAGA movement, and then claim they’ll do it better but without mean tweets?
The debates add nothing other than give the Communist media another chance to attack and distort.
Agree, UNLESS the formats are different, NO moderators, just time keepers. AND, if your name/policy comes up from someone, YOU get equal time to respond. So that way it’s about what YOU stand for, what the Dems are doing wrong, and if it gets into a attack on Trump he gets to respond w/o a pile on.