Trump accepts offer to debate Biden for 4 hours

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  1. garyd

    garyd Well-Known Member

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    You wouldn't have to lock the door Biden couldn't remember where it was after 30 minutes. And Trump would be having to much fun to leave.
     
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    That's funny, but I'm serious. I don't need a third party to inject their own spin on a debate between my choices for leadership. I don't mean just Biden and Trump. We have the technology now for all election debates between candidates to be actual conversations between the two. It would cost next to nothing to have a good presentation of who each of the candidates are.

    Instead we're locked into this convoluted production of competition for 10 second sound bites on private media providers.
     
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    WalterSobchak Well-Known Member

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    Not good enough. It needs to be on a news station or a network station.
     
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    Don't trip as you back-pedal.
    :chuckle:
     
  5. Steve N

    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Do you mean like this?

     
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    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I'm surprised you said that, because on camera in front of the nation everyone will see Biden's clueless facial expressions to go along with his clueless answers.
     
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    Why would Biden accept?

    He's ahead in all the polls in all the battleground states.

    Trump has been publicly self-mutilating since March, his approval rate does not pass the 43% mark and there are only 5% undecided.

    Biden has no interest in debating against Trump, who seems to be chasing a horse much too fast for him.
     
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    Rush_is_Right Well-Known Member

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    Funny you believe the polls, tell all your friends!
     
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    For Trump to ask for a 4-hour debate against Biden, it's certain that he believes the polls as well.
     
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    Trump IS the sitting president, and any candidate worth his salt would chomp at the bit to debate him. It's free publicity and the sitting president is busy running the country and all the challenger has to do is prep for the debate. I've never heard of anyone not wanting to debate the person who he's trying to unseat.

    Face it, you know it, I know it, the entire country knows it, and that is Biden is likely to implode or put his foot in his mouth real deep with every chance he gets to speak, especially when he's asked questions.
     
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    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    And this is how fake news starts, Trump didn't ask for the debate, it was offered to him and he accepted. Now what would you have said if he turned it down?
     
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    Run with that, the truth is Trump doesn't run from a challenge. Thing is, this would be a cake walk. Trump wouldn't have to say a word, let Biden sink himself.
     
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    Backpedal from what? I pray that Trump stands in front of a camera off script for 4 hours.
     
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    WalterSobchak Well-Known Member

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    As low as Trump and his supporters are making that bar, Biden just has to breathe and the Country will vote for him over Trump.

    LOL, keep going.
     
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    Then why hasn't ol Joe accepted?
     
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    It's possible, but we'll never know.

    In any case, Trump will go down in history as the most damaging President to his own image since... ever.

    Good for you if you think Biden will look weak.

    As we speak, the chances are very low that voters will change their choice. And it's not Biden's absence from a 4-hour debate that's going to change that.

    Meanwhile, Trump struggles to bring Biden into the arena as the match eludes him completely.
     
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    Who would become the President if they kill each other?
     
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    4 hrs. LOL
    Neither will be able to stay awake for 4 hrs at a time.
     
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    Why?
     
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    Which one's still awake sending out tweets at 2am
     
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    A 4 hour long conversation jre style where Trump and Biden could talk as long as they want on a subject would be super productive.

    The current debate format is garbage and just fit for making sound bites, not expressing ideas.
     
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    Rogans show and format is infinitely better for expressing ideas than a presidential debate, which is garbage. They give someone 90 seconds to talk about healthcare or defense and then cut them off.

    You can't meaningfully discuss anything in the current debate format.
     
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    Accept what? Biden has accepted all 3 debates.

    Only Trump and his supporters wanna hear a circus on a podcast.
     
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    Have you not read this thread? LOL
     
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    Yep still isn't a reason why...
     

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