Who is running the Trump campaign nowadays, anybody know? More specifically, has anybody bothered to talk to the candidate and put him on notice of his impending doom schedule vis a vis a second debate date with Kamala Harris? Because the information coming out right now, this very hour (two p.m. PDT as I write) and what Donald Trump himself has said, are 180 degrees diametrically opposed. That screams EFF UP to me.
Remember this? pic.twitter.com/OeqKxmuIu1
— Kat’s Concept of a Plan: Vote #HarrisWalz (@KMR31871) September 12, 2024
Hoe kay. I’ll go along with that. I’m elated, in fact. But….can somebody explain this to me, please?
Do you see the same dates and time stamps that I do, friends? Now if these time stamps are accurate, Jason Miller’s post was put on Twitter by KamalaHQ, and then about a half hour later this comment of Trump’s “THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!” was reposted. So you tell me, does this not positively reek of miscommunication and chaos?
The “first debate” was Trump’s town hall with Sean Hannity. Harris said she had no intention of attending that, that her intention was to stick to the September 10 debate that the campaigns had already agreed upon. That debate has come and gone.
My best guess right now this moment is that Team Trump has set this September 25 date unilaterally. If that’s the case, then it is clear bad faith. I don’t know exactly where Harris will be September 25, but the New York Post is running a piece, quoting a Team Trump member who says the Harris team “needs to stop fucking around.” Evidently Harris is angling for an October date and therein lies the conflict.
“We have accepted a debate in September … why October?” the Trump spokesperson responded Thursday.
If they “accepted” a debate date in September, beyond September 10, then it should be information that is readily available. It is not.
Another Trump spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, seemed more open to discussing an October debate, saying the campaign would be “absolutely” on board for talks while maintaining their preference was for a forum later this month.
“President Trump committed to three debates this election cycle. There’s only been one. Kamala Harris has only committed to one. We already committed to the NBC debate on the 25th,” Leavitt told The Post after the Tuesday debate.
Trump adviser Tim Murtaugh argued this week that the Harris camp wasi looking for another debate because “she knows she has more work to do.”
The former president himself has been the most tepid of his team about the chances of a second debate with Harris and third of the general election cycle.
“When you win, you don’t really necessarily have to do it a second time, so we’ll see,” the Republican nominee said Wednesday during a visit to Shanksville, Pa., to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Both campaigns are claiming their candidate won the debate and of course Trump has loads of polls that tell him that he won by as much as 70%. Fantasy is a wonderful thing, is it not? For the moment and until I hear otherwise, I’m going with Trump’s repost of the all-caps NO THIRD DEBATE decision.
Another first in the history of politics. Never before, in the last six weeks of an election, has there been confusion about whether a final debate is in the works. Again, I’ll speculate: At least some of Team Trump believes that Trump needs to go in and do a mop up job on his first disaster. So they are planning a third debate.
BUT — if Trump says no, then it’s no. Unless, I guess, he can be persuaded that he must do a third debate. Or — and this is entirely plausible — Trump does not intend a third debate but he’s going to make like he wanted one more (or two more; he’s still counting Fox as Debate 1, even though it was never agreed on by both campaigns) and claim Harris bailed.
If you can think of other scenarios, please share.
I would love another debate so I could watch Kamala mop the floor with his flop sweat. I don’t think his campaign would be stupid enough to let him because they know as well as we do that the turd pile is not all there. I also think that no matter what he says, he knows she is smarter, better prepared, has actual policies she can present and she just out-classes him on every level. He won’t want that humiliation again.
Trump wants a third debate, but only on a date when Harris cannot attend.
look, folks, chaos is their middle name, right?
The playbook is to put out competing statements of their own, then blame the other side for any confusion, and then blame the other side for backing out of the deal.
A deal that had never been made except inside their own tin foil hats.
I never believed fully he was gonna show…hey thumbs down…your boy is a fascist pig and a COWARD! Now that the world has seen him flop around like a fish our of water, the COWARD doesn’t really want to go through that again. What he wants is to get her on the nazi network where he’s given the questions ahead of time, and can spew all the lies he wants with the hired guns smiling lovingly and the Maga audience will fawn over his every word while booing Kamala everytime she takes a breath. They desperately want to have fodder for their ads and soundbites. Tell them to go phuck themselves. See if he’ll agree to the same network and moderators, THEN watch the cockroaches run when the light gets turned on. No way that coward agrees to a level playing field. Kamala doesn’t need to go into the nazi stronghold…she WON. Jason is just a two hundred bag of manure paid to spread shit for his nazi leader.
Have another debate. We’ve seen Harris already sink the stiletto up to the hilt into D—ump. Another debate will give Harris the chance to really give that stiletto a bloody good twist. It’d be such a delicious thing to watch. Then D—ump will really get the message.
Post…only on a legitimate network. For Trump and his band of nazis to demand she do it on faux news is equivalent to her demanding it be on msnbc with Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes as moderators. Hey even expert snake handlers wouldn’t lower themselves into a pit full of black mambas.
Town Hall with University kids being the monitors. Why can’t we have something different? Zoom? PBS and not cable? A few more debates the better! Plenty of time! Have one Nov.1st. THINK out of the box!!
Of course V.P. Harris has more work to do. She has until the Nov. election to do a whole lot of work making the country really see what a complete and utter ass von shitzinpants is, how unfit he is to be president. One debate in which she wiped the floor with his shitty ass was only the beginning of the work. Another debate would be great but if chicken-shit, whiny baby is afraid to go head-to-head with her, well, I”m not worried. Dumb-ass lies constantly and spews shit wherever he goes-she’ll have plenty of ammunition to use in campaign events, ads, interviews, etc.
was the 9-25 date part of the original deal with the Biden campaign?