Trump on Saturday argued it was “too late” to have another presidential debate because Americans have begun casting their ballots in the 2024 election.
He has no clue when the election is and is looking for an excuse to say no. I’m sure a staffer told him this idea.
I heard somewhere that we might expect Trump to flip on this when he realizes it leaves Vance as the last one in the debate spotlight.
I'll just repeat someone else's idea I saw elsewhere on Lemmy. She and Walz should challenge Trump and Vance to a marksmanship contest down at the gun range. He'd never go for it, but the image is hilarious. Admittedly, it would loose Harris some support from her base, but it would lose Trump a lot more from his to see him being shown up in such a visible way on one of his base's favorite topics. Harris has stated that she is a gun owner, and you know she's the type to take safety and skill training before she ever bought one, while on the other hand, if pansy-ass Trump has ever handled a live firearm in his life I will eat my hat. Both VP candidates have military training, but I'd still expect a pretty big skill gap between a decorated career infantry NCO and a newspaper staffer in a uniform.
Lose
I’d settle for an old fashioned duel at 10 paces.
Do it Jeopardy style. Goad him in by saying we're going to determine who the smartest candidate is once and for all. Invite Stein to keep it interesting.
That's a great idea. Since Trump has declined, invite Stein in his place.
If he saying he's not going to be there, you know he's 100% going to be there. He's many terrible things, but he's consistent AF when it comes to doing the exact opposite of what comes out of his mouth.
Republicans want to shield their senior citizen from showing off his cognitive decline.
That's why they need to make it personal: call him out as scared, he'll take the bait sure as shit
Hmm, reminds me of another republican tv-host-turned-president 🤔
She's going to show up, he won't, and it'll be an opportunity to take tough questions without having to share time and a stage with a gasbag idiot.
I actually think that would probably go poorly for Harris. The mistake-tolerance for Harris is tiny because left and left-leaning voters are often hyper-purity idealogues. Trump's supporters are also working on a purity ideology, but they are extremely mistake-tolerant because their purity test is literally supporting Trump. He's basically one, long series of mistakes and it barely moves his numbers.
Harris does not have that luxury by any stretch of the imagination.
I'm actually kind of worried that this will happen. In that vacuum she's going to use the time to bridge the gap between the left and the right. The last thing I really want from her is more talk about supporting fracking, more soft stance on Palestine, and more words about hardline on immigration. I get that she's trying to draw more of the right in politically but I'm also worried that she is dangerously close to having the far left get disenfranchised.
Serious question.
What percentage of the population do you consider 'Far Left?'
So radicalized that they actually believe that there's no difference between Harris and Trump?
It's a diminishingly small number. For instance Gaza is a loud issue with strong divides. But polling shows it's a very tiny fraction for whom it's a deciding factor in their vote preference. It's just that the tiny fraction of people is very loud, typically young, and on social media like Lemmy.
For many of this tiny minority, it has become more a personality than a political or even ethical issue. They're wildly overrepresented in, for instance, discourse on Lemmy; conversely, they represent a tiny, almost meaningless amount of voters who would not vote for Harris because of it, no matter how many all-caps posts they make about EVERYONE ELSE IS VOTING FOR GENOCIDE.
Also, they never seem to notice what Trump did to the Kurds.
A higher % of those over 65 support Israel than the % of those under 35 that support Palestine. Those over 65 vote, those under 35 don't. That last fact is true no matter the country and no matter if there's a party centered around what younger people want. It makes no political sense to go and cater to people who won't vote anyway.
I hate this, but it's true.
You're getting downvotes. Sad, because you're only telling what is true.
And I get it, it sucks but getting elected depends on getting votes and if there's a group that doesn't vote no matter what then it's no wonder the strategy doesn't revolve around them.
I think the far left (if they're going to vote) aren't likely to be pushed away by more moderation from Harris. They're already far more politically engaged than the vast majority of people. Meanwhile, there are a lot of apolitical people who dislike Trump, but just don't want to vote and feel like they don't know enough about Kamala to feel comfortable voting for her (my Catholic Republican mother, for example). I think that group probably has more people in it than the far left does, and more exposure to Kamala's normalcy relative to Trump is a good thing for swaying them, given the shift in the polls following the last debate. I'll always be disappointed when the Dems pivot right instead of left, but I think the logic is sound in this case.
Each of these swings out into right field are wedges that the right uses to drive people toward independent votes.
Define "disenfranchised"
They will feel that the value of their vote isn't worth the time to cast it. They will no longer be driven to vote and will stay at home. That this effect will negate, if not cripple, the numbers we'd have even with whatever moderate right can be convinced to vote.
That's not what disenfranchised means. If someone has a choice to vote, including choosing to abstain, they are not disenfranchised.
Nah he'll be there, his ego won't let him stay away. We'll have to hear it sane washed as his "just stay tuned" showmanship master plan, but we'll know it's just ego.
Never know, those bone spurs might act up again and prevent him from appearing.
He really wanted to do it but he was too tired. Sad!
"tough" questions.
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He'll do it, but only at Fox, or better yet NewsMax.
Maybe RT actually.
CNN is right wing like FOX now btw
They changed ownership in 2022 and their ideology and business model was to mimic the tenets of ”journalism” that FOX news uses. Here is a good article on the change and if you’re paying attention you’ll notice their Trump coverage is much friendlier than 4 years ago.
Why billionaire John Malone’s shadow looms over CNN
“I would like to see CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with, and actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing,” he said. Then he suggested a model: “Fox News, in my opinion, has followed an interesting trajectory of trying to have ‘news’ news, I mean some actual journalism, embedded in a program schedule of all opinions.”
Live from Moscow.
Trump just wants a level playing field, so it's important that all questions - whether for Trump or for Harris - be approved by Putin personally.
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Once was enough. VP debate is coming soon, then it will be time for the election.
And once again, he'll decline.
trump failing to show up should be marked as fear
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