I DON'T NEED DEBATES to know who to vote for (and against) in 2020, do you?

[CousinIT]

Trump is ALREADY whining that the debates "aren't faaaaaair"! Seriously. The big orange thumbsucking, knuckledragging TURD is ALREADY whining about debates.

I don't need the debates to know I'm going to vote for the DEMOCRAT on the ticket, do you?

Screw the debates. I don't need 'em!

Trump campaign warns debate commission the president may not participate if process is not ‘fair’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-campaign-warns-debate-commission-the-president-may-not-participate-if-process-is-not-fair/2020/01/24/3664fb28-3ed0-11ea-971f-4ce4f94494b4_story.html

. . . . (I think the debate commission isn't likely to kowtow to his whining) . . .

“We pick the dates, we pick the places, without any input from the candidates,” Fahrenkopf said.

The commission has a long-standing practice of choosing the moderators without any input or veto power by the campaigns. “We pick with no consultation whatsoever,” Fahrenkopf said, and campaigns are forbidden from communicating with the moderators ahead of the debates.

Commission officials say they pick individual journalists, primarily those with television experience, not to represent their networks but because of their own professional reputations. “We do not choose a network or a newspaper,” said Janet Brown, the commission’s executive director. “We look at the body of work of the journalist.”

Trump is free not to participate. In 1980, before the commission existed, then-President Jimmy Carter refused to participate in a debate with his Republican challenger, Ronald Reagan, because he objected to the presence of third-party candidate John B. Anderson, whose poll numbers were strong enough for him to be invited. In that case, Reagan and Anderson debated without Carter.

[Sherman A1]

1. Personally, no I don't

But that doesn’t negate that debates and in my view town hall discussion are a good idea.

[mucifer]

2. Well considering most of the candidates will drop out by the time I get to vote I agree

We don't have a democracy if some citizens get more choices than others because they live in Iowa.

[bearsfootball516]

3. There is absolutely no chance he participates in debates.

This is just their attempt to give him cover.

Can you imagine him trying to debate Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg or Amy Klobuchar? It would be a slaughter.

[abqtommy]

4. Poor widdle twumpy, feeling low and frumpy. Who knew that besides his interest in corruption

he was also concerned about fairness. The jokes just write themselves!

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

5. The ONLY person he will debate is Sander's

Mark my words.

Remember Hillary debate where he skulked around? I'm betting he will do worse to Sander's to try and make him appear fragile.

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. Bloomberg. That would be worth the price of admission. tRump the coward would never agree to a

debate with Bloomberg.

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

8. I do agree 100 percent

If Joe fails he would be my second choice as of this moment.

[patricia92243]

7. It would be nice if they put an empty chair in Trump's

place, then it could be addressed as if he were there.

[2naSalit]

9. No. ...nt

[Wounded Bear]

10. Well, not in the general, no...