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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,192 posts)
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 09:43 PM Aug 2020

Trump's Debate Moderator Wish List Is Stacked With Fox News Stars and Pushovers

The Trump campaign released a list of suggested moderators for this year’s presidential debates and, perhaps unsurprisingly, it is loaded with many of the president’s favorite right-wing pundits and Fox News personalities.

As the president pushes for more debates against former Vice President Joe Biden, his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday sent the presiding commission a letter requesting a fourth debate and an early September start to the events due to early mail-in voting.

Calling the current timetable “an outdated dinosaur,” Giuliani wrote that by the time the first debate—currently scheduled for Sept. 29—occurs, “as many as eight million Americans in 16 states will have already started voting.” Therefore, per Giuliani, even if the commission won’t approve an additional debate, the campaign wants to move the final debate scheduled for Oct. 22 to the first week of September, before the first ballots are sent out.

The letter concluded with a list of 24 names the Trump campaign submitted for “consideration as moderators” since Biden has “confirmed he is indeed available to leave his basement for the fall debate.” (Team Trump has repeatedly implied that the vice president is looking to “weasel” out of the debates.)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-debate-moderator-wish-list-214357170.html

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Trump's Debate Moderator Wish List Is Stacked With Fox News Stars and Pushovers (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2020 OP
First question: SCantiGOP Aug 2020 #1
Interesting... Mike Nelson Aug 2020 #2
Yup, me too! SheltieLover Aug 2020 #6
Yup, me too! SheltieLover Aug 2020 #7
Just the opposite. Tom Traubert Aug 2020 #13
all republican candidates do that mucifer Aug 2020 #3
I can't believe he's still pretending he'll be able to debate Biden. area51 Aug 2020 #4
So, Biden's wish list should include Rachel Maddow, Jonathan Swan, Yamiche Alcindor, The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2020 #5
This!👆 SheltieLover Aug 2020 #8
+1 jrthin Aug 2020 #9
He wants the moderators to debate Biden for him. chriscan64 Aug 2020 #10
Well as long as we have a wish list - I want to see Malcolm Nance Liberal In Texas Aug 2020 #11
Joe Biden should reject any right-wing plants Trump recommends. Jim__ Aug 2020 #12

SCantiGOP

(13,873 posts)
1. First question:
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 09:50 PM
Aug 2020

“Daddy, what would happen if Sleepy Joe won?”

I didn’t see Ivanka on the list, which surprised me.

Mike Nelson

(9,967 posts)
2. Interesting...
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 09:51 PM
Aug 2020

...what this is really conveying, to me, is Crooked Donald trying to back out of debating. He's setting up "conditions" that could/should not be met. The candidates should not be picking the questioners.

 

Tom Traubert

(117 posts)
13. Just the opposite.
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 10:58 PM
Aug 2020

He is making outrageous and self serving demands because so he can either have moderators that will favor him, or Biden will decline to debate and Trump them will be able to push the “Hiding Biden” meme. Biden needs to stand strong and demand moderators that will be fair and rules that will be fairly and fully enforced.

area51

(11,920 posts)
4. I can't believe he's still pretending he'll be able to debate Biden.
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 09:53 PM
Aug 2020

#DementiaDonnie

#LameDuckTrump

#TrumpVirus

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,839 posts)
5. So, Biden's wish list should include Rachel Maddow, Jonathan Swan, Yamiche Alcindor,
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 09:53 PM
Aug 2020

Jim Acosta, Jake Tapper, Weijia Jiang, and Lawrence O'Donnell.

chriscan64

(1,789 posts)
10. He wants the moderators to debate Biden for him.
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 10:14 PM
Aug 2020

Why doesn't he just send a pre-approved list of voters while he's at it?

Liberal In Texas

(13,576 posts)
11. Well as long as we have a wish list - I want to see Malcolm Nance
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 10:21 PM
Aug 2020

as a moderator. He won't put up with crap and he'll have some interesting questions for the Siberian Candidate.



Jim__

(14,083 posts)
12. Joe Biden should reject any right-wing plants Trump recommends.
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 10:39 PM
Aug 2020

Trump needs the debates; make him pay for them.

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