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Topics for final presidential debate announced and boy will Donald Trump be in trouble
NBC News White House Correspondent Kristen Welker has just announced the topics for the final presidential debate next week on October 22 in Tennessee. There are six topics, most of which are...
rawstory.com
9:14 AM · Oct 17, 2020
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/topics-for-final-presidential-debate-announced-and-boy-will-donald-trump-be-in-trouble/
NBC News White House Correspondent Kristen Welker has just announced the topics for the final presidential debate next week on October 22 in Tennessee.
There are six topics, most of which are policy-driven topics, where Trump routinely is challenged. They were chosen by Welker, and released through the Commission on Presidential Debates, as the Associated Press reports.
They are: Fighting COVID-19, American Families, Race in America, Climate Change, National Security, and Leadership.
Trumps response to the coronavirus pandemic has been panned by Republicans and Democrats alike, and his approval rating on the issue, which most Americans place as the most important, is 57.4% disapprove, and just 39.8% approve, according to FiveThirtyEights analysis.
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ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)His approvals on this topics are under water.
Any bets he cancels?
Turin_C3PO
(14,022 posts)He can't turn down free air time. Too much ego.
wnylib
(21,557 posts)BS his way through, as usual.
He will also not answer questions he does not like and will respond off topic with accusations against Biden/Harris, etc. Moderator will not hold him to topic. He will try to run over his time and talk over Biden, unless they cut his mic.
In other words, it will be Trump as usual. There should be no in-person audience because the Trump team will not wear masks and nobody will order them out if they refuse or remove them after arrival. They want to infect Biden, who should walk out if safety protocols are not followed. Biden should not appear in person in the same room with Trump or any Trump team member in the first place.
Volaris
(10,274 posts)You want to answer a question by pissing on the nice rug like a unbroken housepet, then you can suffer in kind.
wnylib
(21,557 posts)Bayard
(22,121 posts)On those issues. Loudly.
Takket
(21,607 posts)none of those topics will be discussed and like the first debate it will just be drumpf saying whatever he wants for 90 minutes over Biden's time.
Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)Are they going to be able to mute Trump when he won't stop talking? And will he be required to be tested?
Sneederbunk
(14,297 posts)turned down from 11 to 10.
lame54
(35,311 posts)Packing the court, packing the court, packing the court, packing the court, and packing the court
Aviation Pro
(12,181 posts)Yeah, so?
PTWB
(4,131 posts)crimycarny
(1,351 posts)Trump will try to throw Joe off his game by talking about the fake Hunter Biden laptop scandal. Whoever is prepping Joe had better prepare him for Trump throwing the most vile insults out there about Hunter, including the alleged pictures of Hunter smoking crack cocaine with prostitutes. There is no bottom for Trump now, so he will do and say anything. Biden's debate prep needs to prepare for this. It would be like someone calling your wife a wh*re or the c-word to your face--that's how low Trump will go.
PCIntern
(25,572 posts)And say: This...THIS is our President? The turn back toward him and say, That is the biggest lie youve ever told except for the other 25000 lies youve told. Or That is the most ridiculous thing youve ever said except for everything else youve ever said
crimycarny
(1,351 posts)Buttigieg is the master at responses that throw an accusation right back in the face of the attacker, but in a smooth as butter way. Let's hope he gives Biden some tips on the type of response that will make Trump look like the unhinged fool that he is.
Volaris
(10,274 posts)Hey man, if drugs and hookers are good enough for the President of the united states, they're damn well good enough for MY KID.
DallasNE
(7,403 posts)America has by far the worst outcome, both with cases and deaths, of any developed country in the world. It is not even close. So how does being dead last, with over 220,000 Americans now dead from the disease grounds for approval. I just don't get it.
stevesinpa
(143 posts)this speaks to the power of the republican propaganda machine, led by channels like fox news and oann. there are too many americans who will believe anything told to them by a right wing liar, and they will never believe anything against trump no matter how much evidence there is.
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)Brainwashing the ignorant masses 24/7.
DallasNE
(7,403 posts)To the Gabriel Heater radio show, so this has been around for a long, long time. Also Paul Harvey, Robert Novak and others.
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)They can't hold a candle to the evil hateful radio jocks of today.
Boogiemack
(1,406 posts)behavior in the Executive Branch. Or about emoluments, federal contracting etc.
Richard D
(8,759 posts). . . there's a snowflake's chance in hell that the orange moron will stick to the topics.
Illumination
(2,458 posts)Person, woman, man, camera & TV!...
patphil
(6,196 posts)Talking over Joe to rattle him didn't quite work out for Trump. Actually it was a disaster that fueled a surge in Biden's poll numbers.
Maybe he can play the smug asshole card and just smirk at the camera and mug for his base.
But, it won't get him any more votes than he already has, which is no where near enough to win.
Of course he can lie about everything, his usual modus operandi, but that has worn really thin with the American Public. They've heard all that shit before and it stinks so bad people just tune it out.
So what will he do? Attack Biden's character? Attack Hunter? Attack Obama's birthplace? Bengazi? Hillary's e-mails? All of the above?
He really doesn't have anything new to offer right now; anything that will expand his base.
This is a man who is so used to lying about everything that he can't tell the truth in a way that anyone outside of his base would believe.
He's only doing this to have a chance to get the praise of his loyal subjects. Other than that, he's totally screwed.
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)Especially in the Battlegrounds.
The polls don't even have to really close - only needs a few outliers so that when Putin's ballot counting software kicks off in a few key precincts it will not be noticed and the press will jjust say another bad year for the polls.
Joe and the Dem Senate and House contenders need a 6% or more cushion in the polls and a huge turnout to prevent this theft.
And That is OUR Job. GOTV and VOTE LIKE YOUR LIFE AND COUNTRY DEPEND ON IT.
They do.
boyedav1969
(93 posts)He probably still thinks he won the first debate, because that's what he's being told by his echo chamber. In the eyes of his base, the strong-arm bully approach won the night. Even so, I don't think he's capable of reigning himself in.