I suspect that bowing out now would do more harm than good to the Trump campaign.
Trump’s mistake was agreeing to this CNN debate in the first place. Each debate participant should have the right to pick two questioners of his/her choice. Nothing could be fairer.
But, no. Trump - and every GOP candidate before him - willingly steps right into the trap. It’s very frustrating.
Agreed—CNN is enemy territory filled with minefields.
It is totally beyond me why anyone on our side would voluntarily go there.
B.S. Trump didn't do any of the primary debates, and he won all the primaries with high numbers. The RATS turned him into a convicted felon, and he's still on top. He doesn't need to debate Joe. What he needs is for the RATS not to steal the Presidency away from him again, or kill him before the election. Debating isn't going to do anything to stop that.
Agreed that dropping out now is not a good idea, the time to do that was right up front. But I was thinking, what would Trump have to lose if he set out truly objective criteria for the debate (network, moderators) but the DNC would not agree and no debate?
each one should get to chose the others moderator.
Trump could pick Levin or someone like him that will drill him hard.
It’s been the same with every debate he’s been in though - and I can’t recall an instance where the D’s or the media came out on top.
Trump is a fighter, he doesn’t back down. If it were me, I wouldn’t - but Trump will do what he’s always done.
My bet is that he’ll reach out to all the D State’s, all the black and Latino voters. They’ll try to call him a racist - but that has worn so thin it’ll probably just expose them even more. They’ll also make sure they call him a ‘convicted felon’ - of which he’ll be prepared.
On the other hand, with Trump, you could look at it as not a fair fight - for the media. They’re so exposed, ratings collapsing, but are too arrogant to see their weakness. He’ll take it too them, heads will explode - even though it’s predictable.
[… no. Trump - and every GOP candidate before him - willingly steps right into the trap. It’s very frustrating.”
Trump faces the storm and does not shy away from the adversity of the venue. He has stated that he will be debating 3, not 1.
People will see it for exactly what it is — Trump unafraid.
“Trump - and every GOP candidate before him - willingly steps right into the trap. It’s very frustrating.”
Candidates are slaves to their egos but the Republican party is intentionally disenfranchising their own voters. Some would call it “malpractice”.
I don’t see it that way at all. They were 100% convinced he wouldn’t say yes. Played them.
Now they have Biden on a 7 day drug routine.
I like the idea about picking X number of questions. The way I would do it is one question on any topic and they submit a question for each topic on the list of topics for that debate. The moderator must ask the any question topic and one of the topic specific questions from each candidate.