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shockey80

(4,379 posts)
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 01:32 PM Jun 2020

The debates will be a complete and total disaster for Trump.

The debates will be about Trumps unimaginable failures. He will look like a damned fool trying to defend himself about the pandemic. Defending himself about not defending our troops.

Trump may realize this. I don't know what he will do, but he does have a history of getting out when he knows he can't win.

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The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,719 posts)
1. If they happen at all.
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 01:34 PM
Jun 2020

Trump thinks he's smarter than everybody else, but Biden is a very good debater - he just isn't loud. He ate Paul Ryan's lunch and Ryan is a whole lot smarter than Trump.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
2. Every time he was getting skunked in a deal, (which was usually the case) he would walk...
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 01:37 PM
Jun 2020

away and claim victory.

His football league was a notable exception-- it had promise, but work was involved getting it back
on trac, so he walked. And a lot of people were hurt, but he gave himself a bucket of brownie points.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
3. Wont be any, he cant stalk Joe from behind like he wants to harm him the way
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 01:40 PM
Jun 2020

the traitor did to a great patriot named Hillary Clinton.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,182 posts)
5. They were the same when it came to his debates with Hillary.
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 01:42 PM
Jun 2020

Problem is, these days the spin is so thick, his supporters will insist that he wiped the floor with Biden.

sop

(10,190 posts)
7. If moderators fact-check Trump's bullshit during the debates, Biden won't have to say a word.
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 01:44 PM
Jun 2020

The entire debate will resemble one of those batshit crazy Trump press conferences, where he calls women journalists "nasty" after they challenge him. I can see Trump storming off the stage at some point.

FM123

(10,053 posts)
8. I remember how well Joe did at the last one with just Bernie....
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 01:47 PM
Jun 2020

While the ones with a million folks on stage were not his best, one on one was a good format for him he came across as smart, sharp, and kinda witty!

SWBTATTReg

(22,129 posts)
9. Won't happen. Trump is a coward and will come up w/ some lame excuse to not participate...
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 02:28 PM
Jun 2020

in all 3 debates. Just watch. He always manages to come up w/ some lame or idiotic excuse after something happens, in that always, he's not to blame. Instead of the saying 'the buck stops here', with trump, 'the buck never stops here'.

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
10. There will be no debates. At best there will be back-to-back "town hall" pseudo-debates...
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 02:50 PM
Jun 2020

There will be no debates. At best there will be back-to-back "town hall" pseudo-debates... but even that's doubtful, in my opinion.

keithbvadu2

(36,816 posts)
12. Trump will try to turn it into a rally.
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 03:06 PM
Jun 2020

Trump will try to turn it into a rally.

Lies? No problem! Fully capable.

pnwest

(3,266 posts)
14. He'll do the first one, cause he thinks he's smarter than Joe and his ego
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 03:22 PM
Jun 2020

won't let him not at least TRY to show up Joe. He's a bully and he thinks he can shout and bully his way around Joe. He'll remember fondly how he stalked Hillary around the stage, and how (he thinks, and Fox reinforced) he soundly won each of the debates against her, and think "this'll be cake". He'll end up getting his ass kicked, and be ridiculed, and find an excuse to nope out of the rest of them.

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