US Trump says he will not participate in virtual presidential debate - President Corona pussies out of the 2nd debate after breaking the rules for the first, WHAT A COWARD

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Trump says he will not participate in virtual presidential debate

President Trump said Thursday that he would not participate in a virtual debate, minutes after the organizing
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President Trump said Thursday that he would not participate in a virtual debate, minutes after the organizing commission announced that next week's event would be virtual to protect the health of those involved.
“I’m not going to do a virtual debate,” Trump, who was diagnosed last week with the coronavirus, said in an interview on Fox Business, claiming the Commission on Presidential Debates is “trying to protect” Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

“I’m not going to waste my time with a virtual debate. That’s not what debating is all about. You sit behind a computer and do a debate, that is ridiculous,” Trump continued.
The commission said Thursday morning that the second presidential debate on Oct. 15 in Miami would take the form of a virtual town hall meeting “to protect the health and safety of all involved.” The commission said the candidates would participate from separate, remote locations and the moderator and meeting participants from Miami.
The president was diagnosed with COVID-19 on Oct. 1.

After Trump’s remarks, Biden deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield called for the town hall event to be postponed until Oct. 22 — originally the date of the third debate — so that Trump “is not able to evade accountability.”
Trump on Thursday indicated that his campaign was not informed of the commission's decision before it was announced.
Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh said, “This was a decision they made without consultation with our campaign but it’s in line with their history of doing everything they can to protect Joe Biden.”


The Hill has reached out to the commission for comment.

Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien, who also was diagnosed with COVID-19 last week, issued a statement Thursday morning, describing the decision by the commission as a “pathetic” effort to “rush to Joe Biden’s defense.” He said that Trump would hold a campaign rally next Thursday instead.

Stepien issued an additional statement Thursday afternoon, asking that the second and third debates be pushed to Oct. 22 and Oct. 29 and held in person. The Biden campaign rejected that proposal, however.

The developments seem to guarantee that next week’s debate will not happen as planned and inject uncertainty into the final debate, currently scheduled for Oct. 22. Trump has insisted that he won the first debate last week, but his aggressive performance has been criticized by Republicans as a missed opportunity that may have turned away some voters.

Before his COVID-19 diagnosis, Trump had signaled he would oppose changes to the two remaining presidential debates. The commission was weighing changes in order to instill more order, after the first debate descended into chaos last Tuesday as Trump frequently interrupted Biden and Fox News host Chris Wallace struggled to maintain order.

Trump’s campaign has accused the commission, which describes itself as a nonpartisan panel, of working to assist Biden.

The president’s phone interview Thursday morning with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo marked his first interview since revealing his coronavirus diagnosis last week.

Trump insisted he was feeling “perfect” and that he doesn’t believe he is contagious, while signaling eagerness to return to the campaign trail to resume his large rallies, which have been criticized for eschewing public health guidelines. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that individuals self-isolate for at least 10 days after the onset of symptoms from COVID-19, which has killed more than 210,000 people in the United States to date.

“I don’t think I am contagious at all,” Trump, who began working from the Oval Office on Wednesday after remaining in the White House residence, insisted.

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After breaking the rules of the first debate (all people brought needed to be tested within 72 hours of the debate) or lying, Trump like a total coward has ran from the second debate. I remember when all the cocky, complacent "conservatives" were telling me that Biden would run from the debates and hide, yet when the hour dawns Trump is nowhere to be seen? He has no shame and the emperor has no clothes :story:
 
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heathercho said:
>Biden's campaign don't want to debate Trump.
>Pull out all stops to avoid it, wants virtual debate.
>Trump gets Corona Virus. Oddly after debate. What a coincidence!
>Biden won't debate Trump, wants virtual debate.
>Pence mops the floor with Da Hoe.
>Mysteriously a fly appears.
>Deadline releases, by "complete accident", an inflammatory prep article on Pence having Covid.
>Biden's campaign flips out some more.
>Pelosi wants to call on the 25th to get rid of Trump, coz he's taking steroids.
>But Biden's leading in the polls +16.

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Give me what you're smoking please dude
 
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Arm Pit Cream said:
The article i posted directly quoted Trump, learn what "opinion articles" mean. Mocking Trump from hiding from the debates isn't an opinion when he's bragged about it.

Keep coping with rather than addressing the content by attacking the character, very mature and doesn't make you look like a @X Prime tier npc bootlicker.

It's cute Americans think they export anything though :story:
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See, that's amusing to me, because as far as I can tell, in any thread other than events like debates and such, when you can plop down your smug opinions and then let the event take the attention away from your posts, all you ever export to this site is condescending obvious left wing leaf faggotry.

We all get it, you despise our current President. No one really cares. I'm only really replying to your shitpost because I'm bored. If it matters to you that much, become a citizen and vote here, otherwise, learn some better coping mechanisms for your political impotence.

Trump was right to say "fuck that noise" to a virtual debate. There would be all kinds of fuckery. Well, ok, more than usual, anyways.
 
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See, that's amusing to me, because as far as I can tell, in any thread other than events like debates and such, when you can plop down your smug opinions and then let the event take the attention away from your posts, all you ever export to this site is condescending obvious left wing leaf faggotry.

We all get it, you despise our current President. No one really cares. I'm only really replying to your shitpost because I'm bored. If it matters to you that much, become a citizen and vote here, otherwise, learn some better coping mechanisms for your political impotence.

Trump was right to say "fuck that noise" to a virtual debate. There would be all kinds of fuckery. Well, ok, more than usual, anyways.
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you have serious and unironic brain problems if you conflate debate threads with opinion pieces from news outlets.

I know they say americans are dumb but jeez
 
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Imagine being a Canadian singularly obsessed with the politics of a superior country they don't even live in.

Crying inside every day, not-so-secretly wishing they lived in that country so their opinion could have an iota of relevance to the world at large.

Sad. Many such cases.
 
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X Prime said:
Imagine being a Canadian singularly obsessed with the politics of a superior country they don't even live in.

Crying inside every day, not-so-secretly wishing they lived in that country so their opinion could have an iota of relevance to the world at large.

Sad. Many such cases.
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The Canadians had a chance to join us. Twice. First during our Revolution, then again during the War of 1812. Instead they decided they'd be loyal to King and Country and now they have to deal with French-Canadians living there as punishment. Would there be French-Americans if Quebec was under the Stars and Stripes? Fuck no, that faggotry would be forced out of them with cultural assimilation and modern-day Quebecers would consider it quaint that they ever spoke French in the first place. You Canadians get what you fucking deserve.
 
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Snekposter said:
The Canadians had a chance to join us. Twice. First during our Revolution, then again during the War of 1812. Instead they decided they'd be loyal to King and Country and now they have to deal with French-Canadians living there as punishment. Would there be French-Americans if Quebec was under the Stars and Stripes? Fuck no, that faggotry would be forced out of them with cultural assimilation and modern-day Quebecers would consider it quaint that they ever spoke French in the first place. You Canadians get what you fucking deserve.
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There's literally historical proof of that too. Cajun French is all but a dead language, the only thing that survived American rule was the food culture, because gluttony is certainly an American weakness.
Well, that and Catholicism, I guess.
 
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The Commission on Presidential Debates on Friday canceled the second debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden after the President declined to do a virtual debate despite concerns over his Covid-19 diagnosis, organizers said.

The cancellation is the culmination of a furious 48-hour back-and-forth between the commission and both campaigns and means what would have been the third debate in Nashville on October 22 will likely be the final meeting between the two candidates. The Wall Street Journal was first to report on the commission's decision.

"It is now apparent there will be no debate on October 15, and the CPD will turn its attention to preparations for the final presidential debate scheduled for October 22," the commission said in a statement.

The commission, with the backing of their health advisers, announced on Thursday morning that -- because Trump tested positive for the coronavirus -- the debate that was scheduled for Miami would be held virtually, with the two candidates appearing from remote locations. Trump swiftly rejected that plan, saying he would not show up and setting off a series of events that put the future of all general election debates into question.

In response to Trump's cancellation, a Biden spokeswoman swiftly said that they would have agreed to a virtual format for next Thursday's contest, but because the President had seemingly bailed, they would book another format for the former vice president to take questions. And they did just that when, later in the day, ABC News announced they would be hosting a town hall with the former vice president.

"Vice President Biden looks forward to making his case to the American people about how to overcome this pandemic, restore American leadership and our alliances in the world, and bring the American people together," Biden campaign spokesman Andrew Bates said Friday in a statement. "It's shameful that Donald Trump ducked the only debate in which the voters get to ask the questions -- but it's no surprise."

The Trump campaign, in response to their candidate backing out of the debate, issued three statements on Thursday that slammed the commission, pushed the Biden campaign to agree to an in-person debate and said they would be willing to push the October 15 debate back a week to October 22 and then move the third debate to October 29, just days before the November 3 election.

But Biden's campaign rejected their proposal, with campaign spokeswoman Kate Bedingfield saying in response, "Donald Trump doesn't make the debate schedule; the debate commission does."

The Trump campaign has argued that because the President's physician, Navy Cmdr. Dr. Sean Conley, has cleared him for travel, the commission should move the debate to an in-person setting.

"There is therefore no medical reason why the Commission on Presidential Debates should shift the debate to a virtual setting, postpone it, or otherwise alter it in any way," Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien said in a statement.

Trump is now in talks to do a town hall with NBC on Thursday in lieu of the debate, according to a person familiar with the plans, but that source cautioned things have not been finalized yet.

If that event comes to fruition, both candidates would be participating in town halls in separate events instead of the debate, which was scheduled to be a town hall-style format.

The cancellation is a political loss for Trump, who is down in all national polls and either behind or tied with Biden in key swing states. The loss of a debate deprives the President of a platform that he needs at a time when his campaign is trailing. The first debate between Trump and Biden, a chaotic affair, was watched by more than 73 million people.

The reality for the commission, however, is that once Trump backed out and Biden agreed to an ABC town hall, a second debate between the candidates was unlikely, according to multiple sources familiar with the negotiations.

And commission head Frank Fahrenkopf told CNN on Thursday night that Trump campaign's push to hold an in-person debate next week in Miami after the President had already backed out of the contest did little to change the Commission on Presidential Debate's belief that any debate next week must be virtual.

"The Cleveland Clinic would have to clear it," Fahrenkopf said. But, he added, that does not get the Biden campaign back involved, something the head of the commission believed was unlikely to happen after conversations with top Biden aides.

"They've moved on and are going to do this thing with ABC," Fahrenkopf added. "It doesn't look good unless the Biden campaign changes their mind."

Negotiations between the campaigns and the commission earlier on Friday did nothing to change the fact that the likelihood of a Miami debate was low.

"It is fair to say it is looking like Miami will be cancelled," a source familiar with today's negotiations told CNN. "I don't think there is any movement on either side that will make Miami happen."

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Totally nothing to do with Scully fucking up and showed he was in the tank for Biden. Surely.
 
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Cilleystring said:
I've said in several other threads with canadian opinion articles that we have those downtown core canadians who love talking about how much better they are than americans, while living off posh american imports and emulating american culture. Its some weird form of virtue signaling and coping to make them good inside.

@Arm Pit Cream you gotta grab yourself a Moosehead and pick up a hockey stick bud.
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He needs to give his balls a tug.
 
ConfederateIrishman said:
So now the campaigns can just have their followers say 'no u' at each other when the opposite tries to criticize them for bailing; Looks like this might be it for debates then. One debate where centrists just threw up their hands and called it a shitshow and another debate where a literal fly is the only thing from calling it a decisive Pence victory.

Overall no real influence on the election besides putting people more on edge in general.
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Called it.
 
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