Old Sleep Don is in a lose-lose situation here. If Dementia Don changes his mind and shows up, then the smart black woman will chew him up and spit him out because he's no match for her, not even close. If Drowsy Don doesn't show up, Harris can emphasize in every answer what a yellow-bellied chicken he is. Harris has outclassed him. He should give up and drop out, but his narcissistic weaknesses and crazy weirdness will force him to plow deeper into lame loser territory. Everyone get out and vote BLUE!

Oh hey the Democrats are actually acting like they want to fucking win for once this election.

It's especially amusing that Trump is reduced to a sniveling ball of cowardice by someone the Republicans keep trying to characterize as a "DEI hire."

They won't do it, but it would be baller to set it up like a debate, and have the moderator prompt the empty Trump lecturn and have the camera hold on it for 5-10 seconds each time. It would effectively just be a Kamala campaign interview, but with a bit of shade casting between each question.

It's really weird that Trump wouldn't go to the debate

Absolutely. Dew it and give people your policy vs Project 2025.

Shit. Bring a Venn diagram or two and some belly laughs.

It almost has to be Alec Baldwin doing Trump at the no-show debate. Recent complications aside, his impression has always been the definitive one.

They need to do what BBC comedy show did one week when a politician guest didn't turn up and replace him with tub of lard.

Just put up a scarecrow with a Trump mask up on stage

She should just be unfailingly chipper, start calling him "old man" all the time, and framing everything around his insecurities.

"How they danglin' Old Man?" "Let the women speak, Gramps." "This country's too big for those tiny hands, Old Man." "Step aside and go yell at a cloud." "Shouldn't you be lying about your golf scores somewhere?"

That's always his plan of attack, so you KNOW it works on him. Mockery and dismissal will have him weeping with frustrated confusion. We've already seen the best he's got is "No, YOU are."

Trolls hate the light..bring it!!!!

They are going to call her weird for this, then go back and watch Clinton Eastwood yell at a chair.

i wonder which would be more entertaining.. him being there or not

i would hope shed play clips of his policies (hehe) from his own mouth at his rallies

.. just realized how sad it is i used the word 'entertaining'.. these things now seem far from informational

I would pay money to watch her debate a Conan O'Brien Clutch Cargo version of Trump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HItL9HhpP8

This is what they should do. Show up to a "debate", give Trump time to show up, start after a token amount of time has passed, and then just start answering the questions that the moderators ask with no need for a rebuttal. It turns from a debate into a televised town hall style presentation. Don't forget to interject that her opponent was too afraid to answer these questions at every opportunity.

I'll bet Trump is looking for some of those injections he claimed Biden used.

Should debate kennedy, so it splits Trumps vote more. Kennedy already thinks he is working for Trump and will most likely drop out right before the election and endorse him.

She seems to have developed some good political instincts after her pretty milquetoast run in '20.