Trump refuses to participate in virtual
debate on Oct. 15: ‘I’m not going
to waste my time’
NBC,
by
Christina Wilkie
Original Article
Posted By: FlyRight,
10/8/2020 8:46:56 AM
POINTS
The second debate between President Trump and Joe Biden, slated to take place on Oct. 15, will be held virtually, the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates said Thursday.
Minutes after the announcement, however, Trump said he would not participate. “No I’m not going to waste my time on a virtual debate,” he said.
The debate commission’s decision came six days after Trump announced early last Friday that he and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for coronavirus.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
marbles 10/8/2020 8:49:34 AM (No. 565732)
The perfect setup for Biden and cheating. Of course Trump want no part of it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
janjan 10/8/2020 8:59:54 AM (No. 565735)
It is not up to the media or this pathetic debate commission to assess Trump’s medical condition or risk of contagion. ‘Listen to the science’, which they constantly harp about, would mean that Trump’s personal physician should make the call. This is just another ploy to stack the deck for Biden. The President is totally right to refuse.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mathman 10/8/2020 9:02:15 AM (No. 565742)
Who will moderate? Obama? Michelle? Carville? Hillary?
FARCE!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Daisymay 10/8/2020 9:05:29 AM (No. 565744)
The next debate would still have been Two against One! So, even if it had gone on as planned, it was going to be a waste of Trump's time. We all know those Debates are set up to help Biden, so this one would be even more so if it were virtual. When a question would be asked by the Moderator, three people in the room with Biden could rush to hand him the answer he should give, written out on double spaced page! Who would know? Nobody!! Trump is right. He time is valuable, so he should use it to have a Rally! Let Biden debate himself!
88 people like this.
Gee a debate against the person running Biden’s teleprompter. That would be useful.
What a waste of time.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
stuBdoc 10/8/2020 9:11:20 AM (No. 565751)
What a horribly biased description of the first debate! But wouldn't expect different from NBC news. The second debate is going to be at least as poorly moderated even if in person, with a moderator who used to intern for Biden.
36 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/8/2020 9:15:24 AM (No. 565760)
I agree. Now that Biden and Harris have shown the entire country what bitter, dishonest and ignorant stooges they are, why take it further? Donald Trump has more important things to do.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 10/8/2020 9:17:35 AM (No. 565765)
A virtual format would give Scully way too much room to push his lefty bias toward Bite Me and gives Bite Me easy access to cue cards and ear pieces for getting his taking points from his minders.
Correct decision, Mr. President.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 10/8/2020 9:18:34 AM (No. 565767)
The "moderator" of the vice-presidential debate is currently writing a biography - - - - of Nancy Pelosi!
And as other posters have pointed out - - the "moderator" of the upcoming debate is a DNC/Biden hack.
Bipartisan commission? Then why have the "moderators" of every debate been drooling, far leftist partisans?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Zigrid 10/8/2020 9:22:23 AM (No. 565772)
I absolutely trust President Trump....his decision is HIS to call...if Biden was in a basement safe space his handlers could feed him the answers to questions between moderators on the screen....this debate was between two people...not the moderator and handlers...
40 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
AmericaYes 10/8/2020 9:22:28 AM (No. 565774)
Joe was doing better when he was seen in public. With Biden leading the polls, his handlers are returning him to the basement strategy. Trump has been hurt and hampered by his Covid confinement. Getting back on the road among the people should help him.
After Pence's good performance, and given it would be a another 2 against 1 debate regardless of format, doing a rally may well be far more effective.
The question now is: what will Basement Biden, his media, and the moderator do? Can they do anything that won't look blatantly partisan and won't make Joe look weak and hiding?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 10/8/2020 9:23:33 AM (No. 565775)
Bi-partisan debate commission that a roaring laugh right there. After that first horrible display called a debate I thought the President shouldn't do another one unless it was a moderator of his choice like Mark Levin then you could watch Biden shrivel on the vine.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
TCloud 10/8/2020 9:24:21 AM (No. 565776)
Trump wins *the debate* on that!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 10/8/2020 9:24:41 AM (No. 565777)
The truth is the Trump-haters don't want Trump anywhere near a microphone. The second person they don't want anywhere near a microphone is Joe Biden. Why? Trump tells the truth, and Biden is a brain addled fool.
Don't be surprised if the rest of the presidential debates are canceled out of 'concern' for CV19.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Anti_democRAT 10/8/2020 9:45:44 AM (No. 565810)
Tell them he will wear a moon suit on self contained air and then see who is covering for who
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
grayjay 10/8/2020 9:49:28 AM (No. 565813)
This is exactly what Biden wants....no debate. And a Trump rally is only seen by his fans. I think it's a big mistake for Trump to not participate.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 10/8/2020 9:51:13 AM (No. 565815)
Seems like the debate commission just admitted that they don't trust masks.
If masks really work, then why go virtual at all?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
smokincol 10/8/2020 9:51:21 AM (No. 565816)
when the big man says something, he damn well means it!! we need 4 (or more) years of President Donald J. Trump. the greatest President in modern American history.
VOTE VOTE VOTE in person so your vote will have meaning.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 10/8/2020 9:57:13 AM (No. 565829)
Debate Commission. End it. What would be great would be to have the candidates pick their own moderators, one or two each. Tucker?Mark Steyn? Hilarity would ensue. Biden would dissolve in a puddle of water.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 10/8/2020 9:57:36 AM (No. 565832)
This is nothing but fraud. Demented joe can be there all wired in and a few teleprompters in front of him with the answers.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Namma 10/8/2020 9:59:10 AM (No. 565834)
PRESIDENT Trump knows exactly what would go on if the debate was virtual. (one more reason for the dems to keep the wuhan virus going). Ole joe will not need to wear a wire. (which has yet to be explained as to what the wire was for) PRESIDENT Trump will be cut off at exactly two minutes. Ole joe will get more time.
I totally understand why PRESIDENT Trump refuses to debate like this. He is not a fool. Also, two dem moderators, time for a Republican to moderate.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 10/8/2020 10:10:12 AM (No. 565853)
I suspect they are afraid someone might return the favor and purposefully contaminate their area.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 10/8/2020 10:42:58 AM (No. 565880)
Get rid of these media gotcha parties. I applaud the President for refusing to be ambushed again. No GOP should ever participate in anything involving the media. No moderators. A real debate with topics published in advance, a time keeper.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
2assume 10/8/2020 10:51:08 AM (No. 565886)
Like the saying goes.
Fool me once
shame on you.
Fool me twice
shame on me
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
BarryNo 10/8/2020 10:53:35 AM (No. 565891)
They are not honestly describing the debate.
Contemptible.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
MaMe2 10/8/2020 11:09:23 AM (No. 565926)
Questions ahead of time, cue cards, teleprompters.. no thanks
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Arby 10/8/2020 11:13:28 AM (No. 565934)
This is the Donald's first salvo. He knows the networks are salivating over the thought of drawing a 70,000,000 viewer audience. He'll do things on his own terms.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
stablemoney 10/8/2020 12:04:40 PM (No. 565985)
Trump should have a tv interview with Rush Limbaugh as moderator and past clips of Biden telling everyone what he would do.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
bamboozle 10/8/2020 12:08:57 PM (No. 565989)
A townhall debate filled with DNC partisans? Each with a properly loaded questions? Not worth the time in my view.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 10/8/2020 12:10:51 PM (No. 565992)
Rush just announced that TRUMP is going to co-host the show with him tomorrow.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
udanja99 10/8/2020 12:16:13 PM (No. 565999)
Biden says that he’ll still do the “debate”. It will be interesting to see how many people tune in to watch Biden debate himself versus those who tune in to watch PDT’s rally. Actually, watching Biden debate himself might be pretty entertaining.
6 people like this.
Reply 32 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 10/8/2020 12:21:23 PM (No. 566004)
Thank you, President Trump. I would not even watch such an even under penalty of death!
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
DVC 10/8/2020 12:30:46 PM (No. 566018)
Biden can have pre-recorded segments to slice in as needed, fixed up from 3 or 8 takes, or have a "technical difficulty" if Slow Joe goes off the rails entirely.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
kono 10/8/2020 12:33:11 PM (No. 566024)
Why not just apply the plexiglass protection approach that supposedly made the veep debate safe?
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
TXknitter 10/8/2020 1:06:50 PM (No. 566055)
I am so proud of Trump. Its especially rigged since Trump came on the scene, this is true. However, every four years, our side stupidly pretends the rigged Presidential Debate Commission, the moderators and the setups are legitimately fair events. The winners are the MSM who then get not only debate ratings but 48 hrs of spewing THEIR bias against Trump for voter consumption. God bless you President Trump.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 10/8/2020 1:55:52 PM (No. 566099)
For everyone getting their knickers in a crunch, there will be a debate before the election. Something will be decided shortly so there can be a 2nd debate. It isn't going to be left as is.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Omen55 10/8/2020 2:39:38 PM (No. 566164)
All of dem on the "debate" panel want the power to cut off Trump's mic.
NO WAY!!
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
padiva 10/8/2020 3:08:03 PM (No. 566202)
Both candidates should wear golf shirts to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that neither candidate is wired with an audio device.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Bazi 10/8/2020 5:12:21 PM (No. 566322)
POTUS is having a virtual rally on Rush tomorrow! Which is not a waste of time! Trump 2020! MAGA!
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 10/8/2020 5:15:44 PM (No. 566330)
I roll on the floor laughing every time I hear the Debate Commission described as "non-partisan." Glad POTUS has finally caught on and is refusing to go along with their nonsense.
3 people like this.
Reply 41 - Posted by:
franq 10/8/2020 5:26:04 PM (No. 566338)
Absolutely the best decision.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
gop_guys 10/8/2020 6:27:40 PM (No. 566385)
I’ll be listening to Rush tomorrow with Trump hosting. OMG, can’t wait!
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
or gate 10/8/2020 7:04:16 PM (No. 566407)
Biden will call Trump a SOB.
Then the mods will kill Trumps Mike.
Then the libs will believe it.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
bighambone 10/8/2020 8:02:53 PM (No. 566451)
President Trump and Mike Pence have been the most transparent President and Vice-President in the modern era, and have not been involved in any financial corruption. When the media asks Trump or Pence a question they always gives the media an answer, that sometimes is not the answer the media wants to hear because the media these days are not journalists, but are the propaganda arm for Biden, Harris, and the Democrats. In contrast when it comes to Biden and Harris they answer no questions of substance and say I will answer questions after the election, as they are obviously trying to hide their extreme leftist agenda, that the leftist and socialist Democrat Party will demand that the very weak Biden, who clearly has age related declining cognitive abilities, along with the extreme socialist Harris implement. If Biden and Harris are elected you can look to countries like China, Iran, and North Korea to become very aggressive towards that USA, knowing that Biden is sure to appease them. As
Biden again becomes a corrupt financial “rain maker” for his family members and political backers. Who knows, Biden might even send his son to China as the US Ambassador setting him up to suck big bucks out of China.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
4Justice 10/8/2020 9:18:41 PM (No. 566514)
Good call. It would definitely be a set-up. The Democrats never fight fair. They are completely manipulative. . Btw, who decides who moderates these debates? Why are they ALWAYS leftist DemonRats??
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
preciosodrogas 10/8/2020 9:32:28 PM (No. 566525)
I agree. No way to stop Biden from cheating. there is a way to have the debate though. They could hold it in an location that has been properly cleaned and have each candidate at separate stations. I think the idea could be made to work. Just make it glass enclosures, Biden's a cheat. That said, I trust PT to make the right call. I also think some thought should go into certain preconditions. I'd like to see some push-back against the out-of-control moderators. This is a serious matter and the moderators are a joke. Moderators need to adhere to a set of agreed upon rules.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 10/8/2020 11:45:29 PM (No. 566595)
The Commission is only doing it for Biden so he can remain in the basement. So who cares anyway - Biden or his VP selection never have any truthful answers or thoughts for the next 4 years under their administration, and the narrator just lets it slide.
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