What if you gave a debate...

[Jolly]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-questions-why-he-should-participate-in-gop-primary-debates/ar-AA1ajWB0

[George K]

Clint Eastwood can provide a chair...

[Doctor Phibes]

This is so out of character for him. He's normally such a modest man.

[jon-nyc]

A debate without him present might be more fun. And more fruitful since he’d likely get criticized more. Imagine him “live truthing” the debate as his name comes up.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in What if you gave a debate...:

A debate without him present might be more fun.

If for no other reason than to hear Vivek, or Nikki, say, "Remember the good old days when Trump criticized Biden for hiding?"

[jon-nyc]

That’s a good point. Maybe Biden should offer Trump his Delaware basement for sitting out the primary.

[Copper]

@jon-nyc said in What if you gave a debate...:

Maybe Biden should offer Trump his Delaware basement for sitting out the primary.

That might make Mr. Trump a winner, again.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Copper said in What if you gave a debate...:

@jon-nyc said in What if you gave a debate...:

Maybe Biden should offer Trump his Delaware basement for sitting out the primary.

That might make Mr. Trump a winner, again.

From winner to whinger

From a cult of personality, to a cu....well, you get the picture

[Jolly]

@Doctor-Phibes said in What if you gave a debate...:

@Copper said in What if you gave a debate...:

@jon-nyc said in What if you gave a debate...:

Maybe Biden should offer Trump his Delaware basement for sitting out the primary.

That might make Mr. Trump a winner, again.

From winner to whinger

From a cult of personality, to a cu....well, you get the picture

Said by a person with no personality. OTOH, you are a Brit...Personalities require a transplant.

[taiwan_girl]

@George-K said in What if you gave a debate...:

@jon-nyc said in What if you gave a debate...:

A debate without him present might be more fun.

If for no other reason than to hear Vivek, or Nikki, say, "Remember the good old days when Trump criticized Biden for hiding?"

Geoarge, we have great minds alike! I was thinking the exact same thing. 555

(But, President Trump does have a point. There is more downside than upside.)

[jon-nyc]

It occurred to me that if Trump refused debates in the primary it will be much easier for Joe to refuse them in the general.

[Jolly]

Works for me. At least in the general.

I thought the debates were quite biased in the last cycle.

[Mik]

I don't know. I think it would just make everybody look bad.

[Copper]

The debates will be a great chance for Mr. Trump to get a little publicity.

It couldn't hurt to get his name out there so everyone knows who he is.

[Axtremus]

@Mik said in What if you gave a debate...:

... make everybody look bad.

Trump is a natural at that.

[Renauda]

@Copper

It couldn't hurt to get his name out there so everyone knows who he is.

Have you considered donning a sandwich board and handing out leaflets with Trump’s full name and photo at your local Wal-Mart parking lot?

[Jolly]

@Renauda said in What if you gave a debate...:

@Copper

It couldn't hurt to get his name out there so everyone knows who he is.

Have you considered donning a sandwich board and handing out leaflets with Trump’s full name and photo at your local Wal-Mart parking lot?

I haven't seen a sandwich board in years. Do they still do that in Canada?

[George K]

@Jolly said in What if you gave a debate...:

Do they still do that in Canada?

OF course they do....

https://www.billboardchris.com

[Renauda]

@Jolly

I haven't seen a sandwich board in years.

Saw one a couple of years back with someone in a clown costume promoting a Little Caesar’s 2 for 1 pizza sale.

[George K]

Trump Plans to Skip G.O.P. Debate for Interview With Tucker Carlson

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/us/politics/trump-debate-tucker-carlson.html

Former President Donald J. Trump plans to upstage the first Republican primary debate on Wednesday by sitting for an online interview with the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, according to multiple people briefed on the matter.

In the past 24 hours, Mr. Trump has told people close to him that he has made up his mind and will skip the debate in Milwaukee, according to two of the people briefed on the matter.

Mr. Trump is notoriously mercurial, and left himself something of an out to change his mind with an ambiguous post on his website, Truth Social, on Thursday. He wrote that he’s polling well ahead of his rivals and added, “Reagan didn’t do it, and neither did others. People know my Record, one of the BEST EVER, so why would I Debate?”