Ultimately, it’s his call.
This is checks calendar 2024. Candidates don’t need to debate, they all have to agree to it. If Trump doesn’t want to debate, then it’s not going to happen unless they basically give into his demands, because ignoring debates no longer looks bad (which is insane, but here we are).
I think debates don’t really matter anymore because what these people say and do is reported on constantly all day every day. That wasn’t how it used to be.
That’s not necessarily represenative of how they act in person, spontaneously.
I go in assuming all social media is basically a lie.
Why are you getting your news from social media?
I don’t lol.
I do read lemmy some now though, and a ton of sources for stuff are (unfortunately) on X
You can absolutely be in the loop on important stuff without going to Twitter.
Stop supporting that shitstain and that Nazi haven by going there.
I’m just saying a lot of real news has to cite Twitter as a source, because it is a source.
No one likes it.
Literally nobody on the face of the earth, thinks that he isn’t afraid.
Why would he be afraid? She is not particularly smart, and she is very off putting. I think any extra time of her speaking would be a positive for his campaign.
- Degree in PolSci and Econ
- Head of econ soc, debate team, AKA sorority
- Doctorate of Jurisprudence
- president of NLBSA
- Passed the bar
- Immediately made Deputy DA
- chief of Career Criminal Division
- elected to SF DA as the underdog of 3 candidates, ran unopposed for second term
- First woman, African American and South Asian American Attorney General
- Won a legal challenge against a coalition of the five largest mortgage lenders for better rates
- Brokered privacy policy with FAANG+HP+Blackberry
- Elected to Senate, committees on Budget, Homeland Security, Fed Spending, Emergency Management, Intelligence, Judiciary, Constitutional Rights, Privacy in Tech
- Chosen as VP pick
- Co authored withdrawal from Afghanistan
- Negotiations with France over nuclear submarines
- Thurgood Marshall Award
- Newsweeks 20 most powerful women in 2005
- Time100 three times, twice before becoming VP
- bipartisan justice award
- Two honorary doctorates
- two books + a children’s book
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- not as smart as Trump
Hmm, yeah, sure.
I never said anything about trump intelligence, but I dont see her at particularly smart. Smart people would be someone like Vivek or Elizebeth Warren, Harris is not in their league so she doesnt have that advantage.
And many of those this are not really brags…
He came out far on top in the last debate, doesn’t seem like he has any justification to make changes.
I still don’t get all the gaslighting. I watched the Biden Trump debate, and Biden did just fine.
You must have been watching a different debate
Nope, watched the first 30 minutes of it. Unless he had a literal stroke the last half hour. He did fine. Just looked old and tired, which apparently means he did awful in the debate. Meanwhile, trump lied constantly, and didn’t answer half of the questions he was asked. But all anybody talked about after the debate is how bad Biden did, and how he should step down.
The media is the reason Biden did bad at the debate. I agree with you. Biden didn’t have the best showing, but if you listened to what he said, he made good points and answered questions well enough. He did lose track and mumbled some, which is part speech impediment and part age, but not a new phenomenon. Trump lied about every, didn’t answer many questions, and sounded like an idiot. Yet after the debate no news stations said anything about how shitty Trump was, just how old Biden is.
I hope him stepping down works out, but the media made him lose the debate, not his performance against someone who did worse.
