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I feel like we should leave debates for coherent candidates
The joke here is American politics has degraded to this level.
An old man that can barely run the world's most powerful nation
Another old man that wants to be a dictator.
An entire nation that sees nothing wrong with this.
The whole country's a mess.
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Old man fight!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
But privately they concede they are counting on Trump collapsing under the weight of more than 90 felony charges and his penchant for conflict and outlandish claims turning off women and swing voters.
But the biggest concern is that putting Trump next to Biden on a stage and giving him equal time before a national audience would have some legitimizing effect on a candidate who regularly makes incendiary remarks and continues to claim that the 2020 election was stolen.
Some Democrats argue that Trump shouldn’t even appear on the ballot because they believe he violated the 14th Amendment, which bars anyone who took an oath to support the Constitution and later engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the country from holding federal office.
Wallace, who was a Fox News anchor at the time, later blamed Trump for bearing “the primary responsibility for what happened” and expressed frustration that voters nationwide didn’t get “the debate they wanted” or “deserved.”
The lead strategist of former President Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign acknowledged that Biden’s age is an issue but warned that avoiding a debate with Trump would only put a brighter spotlight on it.
Democratic strategist Steve Jarding said Trump lost any leverage in demanding multiple general-election debates by refusing to face his GOP challengers, including Florida Gov.
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Why? Historically, the sitting president has never participated in the primary or any other debates.
Edit: just so you bozos understand my point, I meant debating in terms of election. I understand there has been in discussion and debates outside of elections and I'm sure Biden and Trump will debate at the very end at some point (assuming trump wins or is even allowed to be in the primary). But my point still stands lol
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