Oh hey the Democrats are actually acting like they want to fucking win for once this election.
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Almost like the "young" candidate has more fight in her.
Never forget that about one week ago everybody was telling us "Suck it up. Biden will be the candidate. There's no chance he'll drop out." Biden bowed to the pressure because people were calling their senators about this.
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It's especially amusing that Trump is reduced to a sniveling ball of cowardice by someone the Republicans keep trying to characterize as a "DEI hire."
They won't do it, but it would be baller to set it up like a debate, and have the moderator prompt the empty Trump lecturn and have the camera hold on it for 5-10 seconds each time. It would effectively just be a Kamala campaign interview, but with a bit of shade casting between each question.
Everyone forgets but trump dropped out of the town hall debate with Biden in 2020. Biden actually showed up and just did the townhall by himself. He came off pretty well but godamn did he look like Jeff Dunham's puppet Walter because they had him squinting up at a mezzanine of questioners with all the lights in his eyes.
It's really weird that Trump wouldn't go to the debate
Quite weird. Maybe it's because it would be past his bedtime? He IS the oldest candidate to ever run
Hey, to be fair- he’s a busy guy. He has a lot of things going on. Maybe he’s planning to sexually assault someone that day. Or defraud investors. Or defraud banks. Or defraud campaign fund contributors. Or defraud a charity. Or start an insurrection. Or try to pressure a state government to overturn an election. Or try to blackmail a foreign government into producing dirt on his political opponent, or maybe he’s cheating on his wife. Or stealing government documents. Or selling government secrets to our enemies….
Seriously, he's got so much to do though. Like he's already set the precedent, can't get soft now. /s
It almost has to be Alec Baldwin doing Trump at the no-show debate. Recent complications aside, his impression has always been the definitive one.
I feel like there's be some ethical, possibly legal, problem with presenting an imposter as an opponent at an official debate. It's a bad precedent. Besides, Baldwin comes with too much baggage right now
Shane Gillis gets the Trump scumbaggery down just right.
It takes a scumbag to play a scumbag.
Oh boy what'd he do?
Besides, ~~Baldwin~~ Trump comes with too much baggage right now
Really? baggage is what makes him worse than Trump?
I didn't say he was worse than Trump, just that running a shoddy film production that culminated in him fatally shooting someone doesn't make him a good associate of a presidential candidate
I would argue that 34 felony counts doesn't make Trump a good presidential candidate, but that didn't stop him. What's Alec Baldwin gonna do that will stop him from running at this point??
I don't think anyone here is going to dispute that. Just that Harris doesn't need to associate herself with Baldwin
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They need to do what BBC comedy show did one week when a politician guest didn't turn up and replace him with tub of lard.
Also more recently when Boris Johnson didn't want to show up for a climate change debate, Channel 4 replaced him with a slowly melting ice sculpture instead. This pissed him off so much he tried to privatise and sell off the whole station lol.
Man, American reporters need to attend some training over there!
Aww I was hoping it would be a sculpture of Boris Johnson himself. They should make one OF Trump and dress it in an oversized suit and everything
Just put a big Mac on a chair and put Trump's nameplate under it
Just to really piss him off, pair it with a Mexican Coke, ya know. The good stuff with sugar
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We could do a chicken made of cheetos with a terrible hair piece.
Just put up a scarecrow with a Trump mask up on stage
Part of the joke is how the debate process has been entirely hijacked by the parties themselves. News networks used to host these events, now they just get filming rights. The League of Women Voters used to present a neutral venue, but the parties went behind the organization's back to set demands more appealing to the candidates.
Trump refusing to participate in any kind of debate is just the latest in a long history of hostage-negotiation style organizing. I suspect they'll end up on stage some time before November, after enough horse trading has taken place. But it'll be so canned and superficial as to hardly matter.
I think they call that a scareboomer.
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She should just be unfailingly chipper, start calling him "old man" all the time, and framing everything around his insecurities.
"How they danglin' Old Man?" "Let the women speak, Gramps." "This country's too big for those tiny hands, Old Man." "Step aside and go yell at a cloud." "Shouldn't you be lying about your golf scores somewhere?"
That's always his plan of attack, so you KNOW it works on him. Mockery and dismissal will have him weeping with frustrated confusion. We've already seen the best he's got is "No, YOU are."
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Trolls hate the light..bring it!!!!
They are going to call her weird for this, then go back and watch Clinton Eastwood yell at a chair.
i wonder which would be more entertaining.. him being there or not
i would hope shed play clips of his policies (hehe) from his own mouth at his rallies
.. just realized how sad it is i used the word 'entertaining'.. these things now seem far from informational
I would pay money to watch her debate a Conan O'Brien Clutch Cargo version of Trump.
This is what they should do. Show up to a "debate", give Trump time to show up, start after a token amount of time has passed, and then just start answering the questions that the moderators ask with no need for a rebuttal. It turns from a debate into a televised town hall style presentation. Don't forget to interject that her opponent was too afraid to answer these questions at every opportunity.
Should debate kennedy, so it splits Trumps vote more. Kennedy already thinks he is working for Trump and will most likely drop out right before the election and endorse him.
I'll bet Trump is looking for some of those injections he claimed Biden used.
She seems to have developed some good political instincts after her pretty milquetoast run in '20.
I’m sure Kamala would like to hangout with the debate moderator instead
The debate moderator would probably also be a better presidential candidate than Trump (I guess almost everyone would be better at this point)
Can't wait to hear her refered to as Madam President.
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