Why Biden Will Withdraw From the Debates
American Spectator,
by
Rob Crisell
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
9/12/2020 4:24:03 AM
William Shakespeare famously observed that “all the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
One of these players, Joe Biden, is currently trying out for the biggest role of his life. Unfortunately, he’s in danger of bombing the audition. He’s flubbing lines, breaking character, and occasionally forgetting the plot.
His rambling, often incoherent speech in front of a supportive audience at a church in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on September 3 shows that he’s no longer playing the role of viable presidential candidate. Instead, he’s stumbled into the last scene of Shakespeare’s “strange, eventful history” — “second childishness and mere oblivion.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
mean Gene 9/12/2020 5:07:25 AM (No. 538142)
Toward the end of this essay, the writer implies that Joe's puppet masters will save his life by pulling him from ther debates.
But when, before now, have these puppet masters shown the least concern for Biden's life?
Sadly, many times their pushing him (maybe even drugging him) has looked like elder abuse.
Yes the debates might kill Joe, and, perhaps that is their plan.
Tone deaf Kamala might get a sympathy vote as a result.
No wonder Barack told Joe, "you don't have to do this."
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Cherrybark 9/12/2020 5:53:52 AM (No. 538162)
I will be amazed if Biden shows up for even the first debate. If he does, it will absolutely be must see TV. He got away with acting like a buffoon when debating Paul Ryan in 2012. Now he lacks the mental acuity to pull that act as a way to dodge serious questions. Biden gets confused trying to follow a scrolling teleprompter. The moderators will give him canned questions that he cannot answer without obviously reading notes from his podium. There is no way he can respond extemporaneously to constant needling from from Trump. And there is no way a moderator can control these attacks from the greatest showman in the nation. I so want to see at least one debate. On the other hand, I'm a little curious to see what Trump has planned should Biden not show up. Which ever way it goes, it is going to be very entertaining.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
laurenc 9/12/2020 6:10:41 AM (No. 538168)
I saw a theory that two days before the first debate, Joe will say someone in his campaign circle tested positive for the virus, and he must self isolate for two weeks, thus missing the debates.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 9/12/2020 6:20:30 AM (No. 538176)
The President needs to insist on a drug test and no teleprompters. He has Biden on the ropes.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
OBX Pete 9/12/2020 6:20:57 AM (No. 538177)
I can see it now.............Biden will try to withdraw from the "debates" unless he is allowed to have a teleprompter before him and an ear piece in his ear and maybe the questions in advance. Something is
going on on the dims side. They surely aren't serious with Biden as their candidate but who can figure out
how to get rid of him?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
anniebc 9/12/2020 6:30:31 AM (No. 538184)
That's some strategy. And when it fails, the backup plan is the VP Ho. Kamaleon got protested by Latinos when she snuck into Miami; she had to sneak in because of the fear no one would show up to greet her. Blacks and Latinos hate her, and dark-skinned black women will never allow her to be top two in the land; no way.
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It will be interesting to see if the network hosting the debate actually makes good faith preparations for it, or slow walks or even avoids preparation having been quietly informed beforehand it won't happen.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
govlawyer 9/12/2020 7:17:41 AM (No. 538209)
Drug test, no teleprompters, and NO camouflaged earpieces like Felonia had during the '16 debates.
Biteme will do whatever his handlers tell him to do....after all, he's depending on them to push his sorrow keister across the finish line by hook or by crook, mostly crook.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
rytwng 9/12/2020 7:34:29 AM (No. 538220)
Trump needs to bate him with a question that makes Biden lose his temper. He may try to attack Trump on stage.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Kitty Myers 9/12/2020 7:36:54 AM (No. 538222)
#3 That's not a bad theory. That way they can have a virtual debate with Joe getting all his replies given to him on a teleprompter that's out of the camera's view.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
sagman 9/12/2020 7:44:38 AM (No. 538230)
CHRIS WALLACE: Mr. Vice President, can you say unequivocally if you are for or against fracking?
BIDEN: Wait a minute, Mike. Damn earpiece. Hey, they’re jamming it! Trump is jamming my illegal earpiece.
WALLACE: Mr. Biden?
BIDEN: What? Oh, fracking. Course I’m in favor of fracking. It’s a normal urge. And we gotta replace the people Trump killed with his coronabeer bungling. But it’s gotta be done within the confines of marriage, which, as a lapsed Catholic I have to say, though hey, when the frost is off the pumpkin… and I’ll add that fracking during a protest is Ok by me, as long as you wear a mask for protection against, ah, communicable hyenas and, if you are of Western extraction, Occidental spillage.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bpl40 9/12/2020 7:52:16 AM (No. 538240)
Even when drugging the subject you have to be careful that it doesn't show. My guess is that the 'Rats are going to blow even that. Joe is going to find out very shortly after the lights turn on that it is not Paul Ryan but Donald Trump he is debating.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Paintman 9/12/2020 7:58:02 AM (No. 538250)
#9 said Trump should bait Biden. Spot on. Biden gets angry and frustrated easily and beclowns himself in lying bluster.
Easy Peezy.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
udanja99 9/12/2020 8:01:14 AM (No. 538253)
I’m with #9. PDT won’t even have to bully Fingers. All he has to do is ask something like, “What’s the name of that new grandson of yours? You know, the one who was birthed by the stripper? Have you even met him yet?”
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/12/2020 8:10:19 AM (No. 538261)
Biden is already withdrawing from the world and could not possibly get through a real debate. Even if he is given the questions and favored democrat answers beforehand, he will manage to scramble the answers and look like a deer in the headlights.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
FunOne 9/12/2020 8:11:02 AM (No. 538262)
I decided that there is no entertainment value to watching pro sports anymore, but I sure am looking forward to the debates for entertainment. I will follow this up with anticipating how the democrat controlled media will twist itself into so many ridiculous positions as they proclaim Biden to be the debate winner. Can't wait to enjoy all of this entertainment happening.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 9/12/2020 8:14:04 AM (No. 538265)
This would not surprise me in the least. Joe can't stand up against any adversarial questions or remarks, he gets angry to easily. Three debates, I don't think so.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 9/12/2020 8:34:19 AM (No. 538283)
One thing Democrats never mention is that when the Tulsa race riots occurred in 1921 Oklahoma was totally Democrat and this didn't start to change until 40 years later.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Daisymay 9/12/2020 8:34:43 AM (No. 538285)
If Biden doesn't show, Trump should have a Cardboard Biden standing by the other Podium Then go on with the debate as usual! I'm sure Chris Wallace won't participate, but Trump can have someone else act as the Moderator! Republicans will love it. Democrats will be outraged!!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 9/12/2020 8:39:15 AM (No. 538293)
If Bite Me can't even handle a few debates, his minders should take him back to his basement, not allow visitors, and announce he his being sent to a memory care facility and has withdrawn from the dim ticket. Enter Gramps as the replacement. But, oops, Gramps has a coronary so enter Billary who will experience the mother of all landslide defeats. Meanwhile, the dim base and Kamalie forget who their presidential candidate is.
In all seriousness, if Bite Me's advancing dementia is this bad, and it certainly appears to be, his wife needs to speak up and tell his minders that he is dropping out. And with Kamalie lurking in the background, forget about a sympathy vote if he were to stay in.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 9/12/2020 8:51:47 AM (No. 538310)
Joe Biden at this point is just a 'screen saver' for the democrats there has to be a plan in the making by the left. Biden is a low IQ fool before the dementia took over. Joe Biden deserves all the misery heaped on him and the debates will be a disaster if they take place.
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I agree with #3, Bite Me is never going to show up and the China flu is a very likely scenario. It fits there talking points.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 9/12/2020 9:16:50 AM (No. 538341)
If nothing else it will be fun to watch Trump push Joe's buttons for 90 minutes. By the end Old Joe will be soaked in sweat and crying 'uncle'.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
gone2pot 9/12/2020 9:22:37 AM (No. 538346)
Biden can show up, talk about his leg hairs, cornpop, creating jobs for the 600 million unemployed American women, the one hundred years of enduring the Chicom virus, Trump's plan to defund the police and the Marxists will STILL say Joe won hands down and half of the brain dead fidiot voters who won't watch the debates will believe it. Joe could stand at the podium and drool for 45 minutes and he will have won according to the media. Too many people in this country are under strong delusion, under some kind of pretzel-logic mental vertigo that will not allow them to change nor understand any kind of facts, data, and truth. I've never seen anything like it in my life but it's all over the world now, especially in this country.
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Joe Biden WILL participate in the debates, as long as he receives one concession from Trump: to account for the disparity in IQ levels, Joe will require Donald to tie 3/4 of his brain behind his back.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 9/12/2020 9:26:54 AM (No. 538354)
I will be very surprised if Biden enters even one debate as it would show the viewers his mental incapacity. Biden could not use a teleprompter or Trump would ensure the audience knows Biden is reading answers to questions given to him in advance. Even then he would get lost in his words.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
chillijilli 9/12/2020 9:33:38 AM (No. 538366)
They can't allow Biden to debate because his dementia renders him completely unpredictable. He can be lucid and engaging (as when he accepted the nomination) or he can be vacant and unable to communicate. The Demos can't control HIM, so they'll have to where find a way to control his ENVIRONMENT.
1. He will fall or get exposed to Covid. His physician will say the debates are too rigorous and he must withdraw. Joe will spar with his Dr, showing his determination. The media will boast about his bravado. In the end, he'll finally agree to debate via at-home video where any number of coaching techniques can take place off camera. Tech "failures" will occur if he strays too far off track. Environment controlled. Mission accomplished.
2. A variation of #1, except his handlers determine there's no way he can perform reasonably. His Dr advises he withdraw. Kamala can't step in because she's only been vetted for VP, not POTUS. Hillary offers to stand-in for Joe at a live debate with Trump. Joe never regains his strength. Voters forget who he is, So does he. Hillary's already been vetted for POTUS, so she yields to the Demo's clamoring crowds and runs on a historic 2-woman ticket.
Perhaps this was the plan all along? They are NOT just discovering Joe's dementia right NOW, that's for sure.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 9/12/2020 9:42:02 AM (No. 538375)
The rats will demand that "due to the Chinese virus" demented Joe can only have a debate via Zoom. This way, nobody will know that he is reading the answers from the teleprompter. Also he will be sitting down, so if his Depends are full, the leak will be off camera.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 9/12/2020 9:43:46 AM (No. 538377)
The main danger to Biden in regards to the debates is his reliance on the teleprompter or note cards to answer even simple, prescreened questions in interviews and town hall situations. Even with those aids, he can't remain coherent.. And in the debates, he'll be deprived of those aids. I believe in his aged arrogance he'll insist on participating in the first debate, but after that his puppetmasters will prevent him from embarrassing himself in public any further.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Laotzu 9/12/2020 9:52:12 AM (No. 538385)
I've been saying -- Biden will crash and burn in the first debate. His staff will lie and say he was coming down with COVID (hence the bad performance) and now must bow out for the remainder.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
singermom9 9/12/2020 9:52:37 AM (No. 538386)
If Biden will not debate Trump should be allowed to have the stage for the entire time scheduled. He can stand there by himself and speak or answer questions.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 9/12/2020 9:53:09 AM (No. 538387)
#14 wins the Internet, today! I don't care who ya are , that's funny!
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
BigTimeTrumper 9/12/2020 9:57:56 AM (No. 538392)
SlowJoe simply can't stand for 90 minutes much less be coherent....so he will back out with the help of the Presstitutes....the PRESSTITUTES then will demand a four on on interview of our Best ever POTUS.... alone...to which Trump must reply ....NO I will however debate the Dims real POTUS candidate.... Nasty Peelosi....he MUST NOT debate the Veep candidate..... heels up Kamilia....That's punching down and he MUST NOT down punch a minority female Liar....Peelosi however he can expose as the total fraud and every bit mental midget as OBiden
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 9/12/2020 9:58:06 AM (No. 538393)
Author is correct. Biden's withdrawal will ultimately force a Torricelli moment in mid-October when the Democrats will replace Joe Biden with Andrew Cuomo on the ticket.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Kafka2 9/12/2020 10:02:48 AM (No. 538397)
Biden will try to weasel out of debating President Trump. If all other excuses fail, he will suddenly come down with Covid-19 at the last minute. As much time as "hidin' Biden" has spent in his basement, it would be nearly impossible for him to be infected by Covid-19.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
bighambone 9/12/2020 10:21:20 AM (No. 538423)
Think COVID! Shortly before the first scheduled presidential debate Biden’s operatives will probably “out of the blue”announce that Biden has tested positive for COVID and must head into quarantine and “unfortunately” must cancel Biden’s debate appearance(s), those COVID fears and quarantine for Biden will continue until after the last scheduled debate, when another announcement will be made that Biden has miraculously recovered. Who would have thunk it?
Unfortunately there are a lot of really low information voters around the country who would feel sympathy for Biden and vote for him with the thinking that since Biden was said to have contracted COVID that he would be better at beating COVID. Of course oblivious to the fact that no politician in the world can defeat the COVID pandemic that is a complex matter for medical science to solve.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
cartcart 9/12/2020 10:31:47 AM (No. 538436)
If there is a run on Redbull energy drink, it’s because he is going to have a lot of enemas to give him the stamina for a debate. Just hope someone asks him “what got into you?”
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
dbdiva 9/12/2020 10:33:50 AM (No. 538440)
Thanks #11! I laughed so hard I actually cried!
This is SloJoe to a "T".
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
zzzghy 9/12/2020 10:46:33 AM (No. 538456)
Rob Crisell is very kind and understanding here and we all appreciate this. But the bottom line is sloppy joe biden is finished so brace yourself for some seriously dirty dem shenanigans in the next few weeks.
There's no way in satan's bloody hell that kamalamadingdong can take the White House even if the dems sell their rotted souls to a thousand devils and cheat at the speed of light so get ready for something even more ridiculous.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
ilovedogs 9/12/2020 10:51:13 AM (No. 538460)
I’m with the people who think this is a plot to embarrass Trump. I just wouldn’t be surprised if he showed up looking presidential
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
Arby 9/12/2020 11:03:41 AM (No. 538471)
If he tries to weasel out of the debates the independent voters will know what the conservatives already know--that he is unfit to be president and, essentially, an empty shell who somehow flip-flopped his way up the greasy pole. Sorry for the mixed metaphors but I was trying to imitate his voice.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Arby 9/12/2020 11:05:20 AM (No. 538474)
Second thought: if he attempts to play sick, put him in a plastic cage and let him speak with a portable microphone.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
Hazymac 9/12/2020 11:26:13 AM (No. 538494)
A presidential candidate's withdrawing from the debates should lead to withdrawal from the race. Let Trump debate an empty chair. In my opinion, there is no way Biden's handlers could let him out for such an event. Trump would gently insert the needle and Biden would explode, dog-faced on his pony and hyperventilating. He'd revert to his normal gelatinous mental state, and "Dr." Jill would have to come out and usher this broken machine off stage. Then replace his Alzheimer's drip with Thorazine.
Biden, undoubtedly on an IV drip feed of dementia medication when not in public, appears immune to humiliation. If it happens, he won't be aware of it anyway. No harm, no foul. There's no one home. The pilot light is out.
How much could the Democrats respect American voters when they nominate for president and truss up a corrupt, dying man with a two digit IQ and a case of progressively advancing dementia? For the good of America, the Democratic (sic) Party needs to be consigned to the lunatic fringe. They're all about destruction and the extinction of our God given constitutional rights. They need a generation to relearn what America, the last great hope of mankind, is all about.
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It is actually better for Trump if Biden pulls out because anything short of totally embarrassing himself will be viewed as a Biden victory and if he manages that in the first debate he will definitely forgo the last two. Lets face it the moderators will toss Biden softballs and he will probably have a teleprompter so Trump will not be debating Biden but the moderators, facy checkers, and Biden handlers at the other end of the teleprompter. In that setup Trump has everything to lose and nothing to win. All Biden is expected to do is not let out too much drool and not grope anyone. With expectations that low how do you not "win"?
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
msjena 9/12/2020 11:38:04 AM (No. 538507)
If he skips the debates, I hope the Trump team blasts him with commercials, asking, if he's afraid to debate Trump, how can he stand up to Putin, Kim Jong Un and the Chinese?
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Every time Biden stumbles or starts babbling incoherently the moderators will cut to the fact checkers who will fact check something Trump said while Joe's teleprompter gets reset so he can answer yet another question about the sainted Beau.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
fairplay 9/12/2020 12:02:14 PM (No. 538536)
But Biden is still not afraid to stand up to Bullies!
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
NoJokeMan 9/12/2020 12:30:39 PM (No. 538561)
Biden will not debate! Antifa will riot outside the Cleveland debate center or will call in a bomb threat; heck Bidens staff will call in the bomb threat if they decide to tell Antifa not to riot; thereby, according to the commie dems and MSM, making it unsafe for any of the debates. The commie dems and MSM will get their talking points together and state that Trump has caused all the unrest and it is his fault that Biden can’t debate. However, true intelligent Americans, you know the intelligent Americans who love our country and what it stands for, sorry left, that omits you, will see through the buggery of the commies and vote accordingly regardless of no debating.
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 9/12/2020 12:55:23 PM (No. 538588)
Trump does not need the debates. The debates need Trump. Since Candidate debates are not constitutionally mandated, and since they were begun by some post-menopausal women (the so-called 'nonpartisan' League of Women Voters) for fun and profit to get their gasbag group some public notice, there is no need to have debates any longer. Now if some enterprising group should devise a League of Male Caucasian Voters, there'd be some traction. File under research in the ''anachronism section.''
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
Cardsfan 9/12/2020 1:19:41 PM (No. 538607)
What if the whole thing is a big “rope-a-dope” scam. Fake the whole confused old grandpa act and show up at the debates as his old self?
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 9/12/2020 2:21:01 PM (No. 538656)
"even fly off the handle" I think this a real possibility. All Trump has to do is contradict him, calmly but firmly with incontrovertible facts. Biden will get furious and have no control. Will he start screaming at Trump? Some of the crazy Left would probably love to see that since, given a chance, they are always screaming too. But but to middle America, a screaming Joe will knock himself out of the race.
I hadn't thought about the "exposed to COVID" gambit but that only works if you only have one debate planned. If Biden uses the gambit for Sept 29, how about the Oct 15th date? Any exposure would have been resolved by then. Most people think that Biden is mentally compromised. If he doesn't show up, he is not going to overcome that impression. If he does, he will likely confirm it.
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
pensom2 9/12/2020 2:33:29 PM (No. 538662)
Everyone suspects Biden will try to avoid debating Trump. The real question is, what do the dems plan to do afterward?
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Reply 53 - Posted by:
Omen55 9/12/2020 3:34:19 PM (No. 538711)
Trump/GOP will pound him 24/7 with speeches & poly ads as the Coward Biden hiding in his bunker.
The floor of the House & Senate would be full of it as well.
Demedia would get laughed at even by many on the left for trying to make his case.
No political consultant would want to try & defend against that.
It would be fun to watch.
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Reply 54 - Posted by:
Annie Xango 9/12/2020 3:37:21 PM (No. 538714)
#51 re his screaming...I seem to remember when he was debating Ryan that he was
screaming/shouting at him very bizarre..I thought at the time he was on or off some meds. could never understand why people keep saying he "won" that debate. it was obvious to me that Ryan trying to be "polite" to the demented fool..
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Reply 55 - Posted by:
Red Ghost 9/12/2020 3:45:09 PM (No. 538723)
More and more I'm thinking Dems are not putting as much of an effort into winning the presidency, but instead will be going full throttle on keeping the House and winning back the Senate. If they can steal the presidency that would be icing on the cake. With both houses in Democrat control Trump will be pretty much neutered. Every executive order will be a battle in the courts. And forget about getting any more judges. And the judge thing is very high on the Democrat list of priorities. He will be impeached again and depending on how many seats Dems can steal in the Senate, they might have a chance at convicting him. With good old Mittens and a few other deep state Rhinos, they just might make the numbers.
I can only hope that Team Trump is planning for this contingency in their "what if" exercises, since good ole' Mitch doesn't seem the least bit concerned about retaining the Senate. As much as I think Kevin McCarthy is a total lightweight, I think he with Ronna McDaniel are making an all out effort to get back the House. But, we need to take EVERYTHING in November if we are to keep America, America.
MAGA
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Reply 56 - Posted by:
singermom9 9/12/2020 5:20:46 PM (No. 538792)
If Biden is a no show Trump should have the whole time. Questions or not-just talk for that time.
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Reply 57 - Posted by:
Kutchk 9/12/2020 9:58:18 PM (No. 538955)
Danger Warning ... could also be that Biden is playing the hapless hopeless lost soul now. So at debate time the bar is set so low that if he doesn’t slip and fall on his own drool he is declared the winner.
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