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Anonymous wrote: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.

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).

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Will there be a live audience at the debate?

There will be no live audience, a request from Biden’s campaign to avoid giving Trump the chance to play to the crowd.

How will microphone control work during the debate?

To prevent interruptions, candidates' microphones will be muted when it isn't their turn to speak, an effort to curb Trump's tendency to interrupt.

https://www.fox7austin.com/news/biden-trump-debate-rules-2024.amp

The Biden-Trump debate had rules Biden insisted upon; Trump should not be held to any rules he negotiated with Biden.

Step up Kamala. Show us you are not afraid.

He can't debate without interrupting and a live audience? Then he should find a different job then being president.

Why won’t Kamala commit to the debate?

She did but not on lying Fox. They do not get to spew lies about the 2020 election and then get a debate for 2024. Lying actually has consequences.

The entire MSM lied about the health of the president of the United States and colluded with the DNC to keep the American people from finding out the president was deteriorating mentally and physically.

Prove it and get your big fat settlement in court.

If Trump is so old, has dementia, can’t speak or think, why doesn’t Kamala show up
to the debate and show the difference between the two candidates? She was a prosecutor and says Trump is the kind of person she’s used to dealing with. She should have be able to destroy Trump in front of the American people easily.

She should not do that on fox. They screw over the viewers with their lies and the candidates should refuse to debate on such a network.

Trump went on CNN; why can’t Kamala go on Fox? A president should be able to speak to everyone.

Did CNN lose an 800 million dollar court case about lying?

Kamala is a former prosecutor. She knows how to handle bad guys. If she gets elected she will be America’s president and deal with heads of state who also lie. Putin? She can handle a debate at Fox, can’t she?

The don't deserve the debate. She will crush him on a different network.

Are you saying her voters don’t deserve the debate? Oh, wait, no one voted for her. But what about independent or undecided voters? Do they deserve the debate?

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Democrats don’t like voters. Voters are unnecessary to democrats, as someone somewhere decides who democrats run.

You're just mad that we picked a winner. You should try to do the same. Trump lost last time out you fools.

You should be eager to watch your winner destroy Trump on Fox.

Fox lies and neither candidate should debate on fox.

Brazile under siege after giving Clinton debate question

After hacked emails published Monday by WikiLeaks appeared to reveal Brazile, during her time as a CNN commentator, giving advance notice to Clinton’s camp about a debate question.

“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

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Anonymous wrote:Will there be a live audience at the debate?

There will be no live audience, a request from Biden’s campaign to avoid giving Trump the chance to play to the crowd.

How will microphone control work during the debate?

To prevent interruptions, candidates' microphones will be muted when it isn't their turn to speak, an effort to curb Trump's tendency to interrupt.

https://www.fox7austin.com/news/biden-trump-debate-rules-2024.amp

The Biden-Trump debate had rules Biden insisted upon; Trump should not be held to any rules he negotiated with Biden.

Step up Kamala. Show us you are not afraid.

He can't debate without interrupting and a live audience? Then he should find a different job then being president.

Why won’t Kamala commit to the debate?

She did but not on lying Fox. They do not get to spew lies about the 2020 election and then get a debate for 2024. Lying actually has consequences.

The entire MSM lied about the health of the president of the United States and colluded with the DNC to keep the American people from finding out the president was deteriorating mentally and physically.

Prove it and get your big fat settlement in court.

If Trump is so old, has dementia, can’t speak or think, why doesn’t Kamala show up
to the debate and show the difference between the two candidates? She was a prosecutor and says Trump is the kind of person she’s used to dealing with. She should have be able to destroy Trump in front of the American people easily.

She should not do that on fox. They screw over the viewers with their lies and the candidates should refuse to debate on such a network.

Trump went on CNN; why can’t Kamala go on Fox? A president should be able to speak to everyone.

Did CNN lose an 800 million dollar court case about lying?

Kamala is a former prosecutor. She knows how to handle bad guys. If she gets elected she will be America’s president and deal with heads of state who also lie. Putin? She can handle a debate at Fox, can’t she?

The don't deserve the debate. She will crush him on a different network.

Are you saying her voters don’t deserve the debate? Oh, wait, no one voted for her. But what about independent or undecided voters? Do they deserve the debate?

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Democrats don’t like voters. Voters are unnecessary to democrats, as someone somewhere decides who democrats run.

You're just mad that we picked a winner. You should try to do the same. Trump lost last time out you fools.

You should be eager to watch your winner destroy Trump on Fox.

Fox lies and neither candidate should debate on fox.

CNN isn’t a garden of truthful roses. Donna Brazille worked at CNN and gave Hillary debate questions.

Fox gave Trump debate questions.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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).

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.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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).

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.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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).

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.

He is such a whiny little b**ch

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Anonymous wrote:Both candidates need to get a grip and start negotiating behind the scenes. Neither Harris nor Trump gets to unilaterally decide the terms of the debate.

September 10th was already negotiated.

There is no "both sides" here.

It was negotiated between the Biden and Trump campaigns, not the Harris campaign.

She needs to do her own work here and not just slide in on Joe’s coat tails.

Trump seems to be doing the work for her by making himself look too frightened to debate her.

Like try for a second to think about how a normal, non Trump-fan would perceive this. They had a debate scheduled, Biden dropped out of the race, and Trump wants to rearrange the format to one that is friendlier to him. Why? What could be wrong with the earlier format other than he feels he can’t win without some advantage?

I think many people recognize it for the strategic move it is. He agreed to the debate with Biden knowing all Biden’s challenges and foibles.

Now he is running against a different candidate and acting accordingly.

It’s all gamesmanship and is actually very sad for our country. I stand by my statement the two campaigns need to renogotiate behind closed doors.

Because he can't debate without being able to interrupt his opponent? That is ridiculous.

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.

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...)

Anonymous wrote: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.

Buttigieg vs. Trump would be a thing of beauty.

Anonymous wrote: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.

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).

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Anonymous wrote:Both candidates need to get a grip and start negotiating behind the scenes. Neither Harris nor Trump gets to unilaterally decide the terms of the debate.

September 10th was already negotiated.

There is no "both sides" here.

It was negotiated between the Biden and Trump campaigns, not the Harris campaign.

She needs to do her own work here and not just slide in on Joe’s coat tails.

Trump seems to be doing the work for her by making himself look too frightened to debate her.

Like try for a second to think about how a normal, non Trump-fan would perceive this. They had a debate scheduled, Biden dropped out of the race, and Trump wants to rearrange the format to one that is friendlier to him. Why? What could be wrong with the earlier format other than he feels he can’t win without some advantage?

I think many people recognize it for the strategic move it is. He agreed to the debate with Biden knowing all Biden’s challenges and foibles.

Now he is running against a different candidate and acting accordingly.

It’s all gamesmanship and is actually very sad for our country. I stand by my statement the two campaigns need to renogotiate behind closed doors.

Because he can't debate without being able to interrupt his opponent? That is ridiculous.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Both candidates need to get a grip and start negotiating behind the scenes. Neither Harris nor Trump gets to unilaterally decide the terms of the debate.

September 10th was already negotiated.

There is no "both sides" here.

It was negotiated between the Biden and Trump campaigns, not the Harris campaign.

She needs to do her own work here and not just slide in on Joe’s coat tails.

Trump seems to be doing the work for her by making himself look too frightened to debate her.

Like try for a second to think about how a normal, non Trump-fan would perceive this. They had a debate scheduled, Biden dropped out of the race, and Trump wants to rearrange the format to one that is friendlier to him. Why? What could be wrong with the earlier format other than he feels he can’t win without some advantage?

I think many people recognize it for the strategic move it is. He agreed to the debate with Biden knowing all Biden’s challenges and foibles.

Now he is running against a different candidate and acting accordingly.

It’s all gamesmanship and is actually very sad for our country. I stand by my statement the two campaigns need to renogotiate behind closed doors.

Because he can't debate without being able to interrupt his opponent? That is ridiculous.

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Both candidates need to get a grip and start negotiating behind the scenes. Neither Harris nor Trump gets to unilaterally decide the terms of the debate.

September 10th was already negotiated.

There is no "both sides" here.

It was negotiated between the Biden and Trump campaigns, not the Harris campaign.

She needs to do her own work here and not just slide in on Joe’s coat tails.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Both candidates need to get a grip and start negotiating behind the scenes. Neither Harris nor Trump gets to unilaterally decide the terms of the debate.

September 10th was already negotiated.

There is no "both sides" here.

It was negotiated between the Biden and Trump campaigns, not the Harris campaign.

She needs to do her own work here and not just slide in on Joe’s coat tails.

He’s chicken and needs his supports around him to feel safe.
And you call democrats snowflakes!
She will do her own work at the debate. Do you really think Biden and trump talked directly to negotiate the terms? Their teams did that, so no renegotiation is necessary.

If trump was not weird and power seeking he would have said ‘we need to revisit the terms of the debate’ and kept the time and location the same. Instead he is trying to baby out of it.

The Art of HIS Deal is not upholding contracts. It is why he is a felon- low integrity

What does he want to change about the terms that he could handle with Biden and can not manage against Harris?

He wants to talk over her (mics always on) and he wants to physically stalk her like he did Hillary.

He wants to use his waning physical strength as a man against a woman- duh

Do he not going to show because of the microphone terms? Give us a break. Talk when you mic is on and then shut up. It's not that hard to do

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.