It is for Trump. Shouting down others is exactly how he maintains power always has been. He has a long track record of this from fleeing contractors to being a slumlord to grabbing women to taking documents and refusing to give them back to talking over everyone during a debate. He isn’t going to show up becuase all of these little power plays he uses to gain the upper hand he negotiated away thinking he would take advantage of his opponents speech issues. He now has a debate partner who is a woman and he can’t be beaten by a woman in his mind and it is really hard for him to think about debating when he can’t use his power tricks (stalking talking over, making fun of the person to deflect good solid polity points etc) especially on a woman. In actuality the debate format is fair, but for trump it feels constraining because it is fair. |
It's the *same* campaign. Had anybody else run, there would have been some issues transferring Biden's funds to the new campaign. As it is she just moved from the VP slot to the top of the ticket. |
Trump has conflict of interest with Fox which doesn’t seem to bother him— or are people already forgetting that he shared legal representation with Hannity? Who employed Michael Cohen?
Leaving aside Trump’s conflict, Fox is not appropriate to host election debates given their attempt to interfere in the 2020 election results. Harris should not debate there— obviously. Buttigieg can show up that day to wreck Trump if he needs the attention. |
Did you see his Fox-friendly interviews this week? He can't answer questions. He doesn't know any actual substance. He rambles. His plan with the Fox interview is to talk over Harris and have MAGA egg him on. He wants to turn it into a mudslinging wrestling match because he can't debate with substance. That's also why he won't do the Fox event by himself as Harris plans to do with ABC because it'd be really embarrassing for him. |
Ok. Well then Harris is fine. She can go to the ABC debate and make her case. The empty podium will do better then trump can do so he should stay home. |
I think Harris will be fine with doing a Fox debate. But they have to negotiate a date and use the same rules (mics off, no audience--otherwise it's a MAGA-crazed sporting event, not a debate). |
Buttigieg vs. Trump would be a thing of beauty. |
And she'll own the media cycle for that week, while moderates/independents/undecides see Trump's weakness. It generally doesn't matter what MAGA thinks. Their votes are banked (to the extent they show up to the voting booths...) |
He is such a whiny little b**ch |
She would be fine but they should both refuse to go on Fox after the lies they told about the last election. That has a consequence. |
Why would she do that? She has no incentive to give in to Donald’s demands. If he doesn’t show up on ABC, he looks like coward. |
she should not do it. Neither should he. |
Fox gave Trump debate questions. |
“Trump has made the debate a point of pride. He recently boasted to the Times that he’d won it despite being a novice, and despite the “crazy Megyn Kelly question.” Fox, however, may have given Trump a little help. A pair of Fox insiders and a source close to Trump believe that Ailes informed the Trump campaign about Kelly’s question. Two of those sources say that they know of the tipoff from a purported eyewitness. In addition, a former Trump campaign aide says that a Fox contact gave him advance notice of a different debate question, which asked the candidates whether they would support the Republican nominee, regardless of who won. The former aide says that the heads-up was passed on to Trump, who was the only candidate who said that he wouldn’t automatically support the Party’s nominee—a position that burnished his image as an outsider. Kelly also declined to comment, but she broached the subject in her 2016 memoir, “Settle for More.” She wrote that the day before the debate Trump called Fox executives to complain, saying he’d heard that Kelly planned to ask “a very pointed question directed at him.” She noted, “Folks were starting to worry about Trump—his level of agitation did not match the circumstances.” When this passage stirred controversy, Kelly tweeted that her book “does not suggest Trump had any debate Qs in advance, nor do I believe that he did.” Yet her account does suggest that Trump had enough forewarning to be upset, and that he contacted Fox before the debate.” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/the-making-of-the-fox-news-white-house |
Why can't they just do this on C-Span? Trump could have one of the Fox journalists and Harris can have one of the ABC journalists, as long as there is not a conflict with a lawsuit (don't know if this exists or not). And it should take place before early voting starts, which I understand may be as early as September 6 in some states. |