-PJ
Posted on 06/26/2024 9:02:05 AM PDT by lasereye
The 2024 election is Donald Trump's to lose.
Right now, he is running even with Joe Biden in all the national polls. He's running ahead in Arizona, Georgia and Nevada; he's running even in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin; he's closing within striking distance in Minnesota and New Hampshire. The map has radically expanded for him. Meanwhile, Biden's approval ratings are stagnant: he's stuck at below 40%. Americans' view of the economy remains dim, as does their view of Biden's foreign policy.
What's more, Americans' perceptions of the two candidates are unlikely to change dramatically before the election. Biden has been underwater with voters since September 2021 and his ignominious Afghanistan withdrawal. He's been losing to or dead even with Trump in the national polling since September 2023.
So far, the race has been about Joe Biden. No new information has been added to the litany of criticisms against Donald Trump since 2021. Meanwhile, Joe Biden has been the president — and he's been doing a terrible job of it, setting things on fire both at home and abroad. He's also in a state of obvious mental and physical decline.
But the debate could shift the focus back to Trump. Obviously, that's Biden's plan — and, presumably, the plan of the interlocutors at CNN. As George Stephanopoulos recently told CNN's Abby Phillip, the "most important question" is whether Trump will accept the results of the 2020 election as legitimate.
Which means that Trump had better have an answer that shifts the focus away from his views of 2020 and back toward 2024.
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Not tuning in?
Too bad. You’ll miss Obama leading Biden to the debate podium.....so Biden wont get lost...../s.
I’m still infuriated. Trump stepped on his own you know what because of his ego and big mouth! He was holding all the freaking cards. He could’ve had any venue any moderators he wanted, but instead, his effing ego got in the way and he put his big fat foot in his mouth. It’s unbelievable that he’s gonna go to the Clinton news network for another debate after the RNC promised the base, we will never do debates with a tag team again! My God, I can’t believe the stupidity of the Trump’s campaign team! I’m gonna say this right now and I’ll probably gonna get flamed but Biden already has this debate in the bag. And Trump handed him a lifeline. stupid is stupid! And yes, I will still vote for Trump because there’s no other choice, he is my candidate. But He just blew the biggest stake in the heart to Biden’s campaign ever in the US presidential history. He had it …he was holding it in his hand. FJB and his tag team are going to demolish Trump left and right like demons on cocaine. Because they know this is their last opportunity, not only to get Trump, but to help dementia cadaver Joe over the finish line. UGH!
it is the new hunter laptop gambit
Darn good question. Really dirty pool. We need to know the instigator of that suddenly appearing letter.
NEW MATH
2 debate Candidates.
No Audience.
60 New York Times Reporters assigned.
Includes 29 fact-checkers.
I think he agreed to it because he understands everyone is expecting a debate and it will make no difference - either you believe the fake news or you don’t - the debate will change nothing.
Unless one of them poops his pants on national TV this debate won’t even move the needle.
Shut up, Shapiro, you jerk.
Re poop his pants:
You know, I don’t find fault with the guy for being old; that happens to all of us ultimately. What I DO fault him for, and why any sympathy I may have had is gone, is because he’s a vindictive, jealous, arrogant, petulant, petty douche bag of a human being, who has been sucking off the American taxpayer since 1972 or thereabouts, and is full of anger and bitterness to all things American. That’s Joe in a nutshell. In other words, is the perfect representation of his entire entire party.
Versus a self-made multibillionaire in Trump, who genuinely loves his country and understands what the words “land of opportunity“ really mean, and who wants to see everyone have a chance to succeed.
Everytime Biden lies he should gesture with a squawking hand signal.
Trump was vetted and found competent to stand trial. Joe was found incompetent?
Trump should gesture when Biden lies so the conservative commentators following along can fact check in real time on their live feeds.
I fully expect Joe to go into his “Mr. tough guy” act.
Trump should have a gesture for that.
Agree.
That's why I've been posting this all week:
-PJ
The best way to stop this debate network ego bias is to go back to the way debates were moderated prior to 1996. Prior to the 1996 debates, the network broadcasting the debate had the host limited to moderating the debate, that is, timekeeping and enforcing the rules. A separate panel of questioners were from mixed media, including the competing networks and print journalists. Beginning with the 1996 debates, the only people questioning the candidates were from the network hosting the debates.By going back to past practices, perhaps the other talent at the hosting network won't be so defensive when guests come on the air to talk about the debates? It's too much for one (or two) to do: moderate the timekeeping and rules, ask the questions, listen to the answers, follow up with other questions.
It's better to let the moderate focus on moderating while the panelists focus on the questions and answers.
Case in point: Chris Wallace moderating the third debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
With time running out, Wallace asked Trump if he'd accept the results of the election.
The next day Wallace said that he lost track and "forgot" to ask Clinton the same question.Wallace: Mr. Trump, I want to ask you about one last question in this topic. You’ve been warning at rallies recently that this election is rigged and that Hillary Clinton is in the process of trying to steal it from you. Your running mate Governor Pence pledged on Sunday that he and you, his words, will absolutely accept the result of this election. Today your daughter Ivanka said the same thing. I want to ask you here on the stage tonight, do you make the same commitment that you’ll absolutely accept the result of the election.
Trump: I will look at it at the time. I’m not looking at anything now, I’ll look at it at the time. What I’ve seen, what I’ve seen, is so bad. First of all, the media is so dishonest and so corrupt and the pile on is so amazing. “The New York Times” actually wrote an article about it, but they don’t even care. It is so dishonest, and they have poisoned the minds of the voters. But unfortunately for them, I think the voters are seeing through it. I think they’re going to see through it, we’ll find out on November 8th, but I think they’re going to see through it. If you look --
Wallace: But, but --
Trump: Excuse me, Chris. If you look at your voter rolls, you will see millions of people that are registered to vote. Millions. This isn’t coming from me. This is coming from Pew report and other places. Millions of people that are registered to vote that shouldn’t be registered to vote. So let me just give you one other thing. I talk about the corrupt media. I talk about the millions of people. I’ll tell you one other thing. She shouldn’t be allowed to run. It’s -- She’s guilty of a very, very serious crime. She should not be allowed to run, and just in that respect I say it’s rigged because she should never --
Wallace: But, but --
Trump: Chris. She should never have been allowed to run for the presidency based on what she did with e-mails and so many other things.
Wallace: But, sir, there is a tradition in this country, in fact, one of the prides of this country is the peaceful transition of power and no matter how hard fought a campaign is that at the end of the campaign, that the loser concedes to the winner. Not saying you’re necessarily going to be the loser or the winner, but that the loser concedes to the winner and the country comes together in part for the good of the country. Are you saying you’re not prepared now to commit to that principle?
Trump: What I’m saying is that I will tell you at the time. I’ll keep you in suspense, okay?
Clinton: Well Chris, let me respond to that because that’s horrifying. You know, every time Donald thinks things aren’t going in his direction, he claims whatever it is, is rigged against him. The FBI conducted a yearlong investigation into my e-mails. They concluded there was no case. He said the FBI was rigged. He lost the Iowa caucus, he lost the Wisconsin primary, he said the Republican primary was rigged against him. Then, Trump University gets sued for fraud and racketeering. He claims the court system and the federal judge is rigged against him. There was even a time when he didn’t get an Emmy for his TV program three years in a row and he started tweeting that the Emmys were rigged against him.
Trump: Should have gotten it.
(Laughter)
Clinton: This is a mind-set. This is how Donald thinks, and it’s funny, but it’s also really troubling. That is not the way our democracy works. We’ve been around for 240 years. We’ve had free and fair elections. We’ve accepted the outcomes when we may not have liked them, and that is what must be expected of anyone standing on a debate stage during a general election. You know, President Obama said the other day when you’re whining before the game is even finished--
(Applause)
Wallace: Hold on, folks.
Clinton:-- It just shows you’re not up to doing the job. And let’s be clear about what he’s saying and what that means. He’s denigrating, he is talking down our democracy. And I, for one, am appalled that somebody who is the nominee of one of our two major parties would take that kind of position.
Trump: I think what the FBI did and what the Department of Justice did, including meeting with her husband, the Attorney General, in the back of an airplane on the tarmac in Arizona, I think it’s disgraceful. I think it’s a disgrace.
Wallace: All right.
Trump: I think we’ve never had a situation so bad
(Applause)
Wallace: Hold on, folks. This doesn’t do any good for anyone. Let’s please continue the debate and let’s move onto the subject of foreign hotspots...
To this day, President Trump is still being hounded over accepting the results of elections while Clinton is still acting as if she were the true winner in 2016.
This is what happens when debates are not conducted with separation of responsibilities. Moderating debates has become an exercise in ego management, not debate management. It's time to go back to the old ways of having a dedicated panel of questioners separate from the moderation of the debate.
President Trump cannot go on the record saying that.
If he does, then anybody that his DoJ tries to prosecute for lawfare during his second administration will use that quote to say they are innocent and being unfairly targeted by an out-of-control Department of Justice.
-PJ
My advice—no show.
CNN and the moderators are toxic waste.
Trump just needs to interrupt FJB a couple of times. Watch Joe lose his train of thought and get flustered.
You know, the thing!
-PJ
Lol
The report described the 81-year-old Democrat’s memory as “hazy,” “fuzzy,” “faulty,” “poor” and having “significant limitations.” It noted that Biden could not recall defining milestones in his own life such as when his son Beau died or when he served as vice president.
Isn’t it ironic that a person deemed too frail to stand trial could be running for reelection?
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