This is convoluted “logic” but then consider the source, Mr. Shark and Batteries in the Mojave. A few days back Sean Hannity let it slip on his show that maybe Donald Trump should cancel the June 27 debate and wait for the September debate. Or even possibly have a debate scheduled right before the November 5 election. The subterfuge was seen for exactly what it was, which is that Trump doesn’t want to debate Biden because he knows he’ll get clobbered. Now the way things look Trump may be willing to debate Biden but he’s talking crazy about “losing the debate on purpose.” And he’s talking about another Democrat replacing Biden on the ticket, which is sheer madness. Not going to happen.
The presumptive Republican nominee also joked Thursday that he might decide to throw the event, but his reasoning made little to no sense. Trump explained that his polling suggests that Biden is more popular than any of the Democrats that the party might tap to replace him, should they somehow choose to pull the plug on his campaign after the debate.
“This guy does better than the Democrats that you’re talking about, including [Gretchen] Whitmer,” Trump said, referring to the governor of Michigan. “He does better than them, I don’t quite understand that. I’m a little surprised. But, he actually polls better than all the people you’re talking about, and so, they don’t want to take him off, it depends.”
“Maybe I’m better off losing the debate, I’ll make sure he stays. I’ll lose the debate on purpose, maybe I’ll do something like that,” Trump added.
It’s less likely that Trump wants to keep his opponent, who is by his own admission popular among Democrats, in the race, and more likely that Trump wants to create a sort of safety rail in case he flubs his performance. Trump’s game plan is simple: if he does poorly, it was on purpose, and if Biden does great, it’s because he was on drugs.
Here’s the tape and the dialogue about the debate starts about 9:25.
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Trump’s setting the stage for failure, which is a good idea actually. But now you have it, when he loses to Biden on the debate stage it will be because of a very clever 12-dimensional chess strategy of his, to keep Biden on the ticket because Biden polls better than the other Democrats — which would logically mean that he should want to get Biden off the ticket right? Oh, never mind.
Cutting his mike? What good will that do? He will then shout over Biden. What will the supposed talking heads do about that? Answer? LET HIM BECAUSE THEY ARE JUST PAWNS IN THE GAME.
If ever the thought could manifest itself, “He should drop Dead!” is most appropriate.