Though I'll bet Trump does not participate: the announced schedule Presidential Debates

[hlthe2b]

2020 Presidential Debate Schedule Announced for General Election

The presidential debates will be held in Indiana, Michigan and Tennessee, and a vice-presidential debate will be held in Utah.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/11/us/politics/when-are-the-2020-presidential-debates.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

The nonpartisan commission that governs presidential debates announced on Friday the dates and sites for the three presidential debates and one vice-presidential debate during the 2020 general election.--snip--

The presidential debates will kick off Sept. 29 at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, according to the Commission on Presidential Debates. (The campus is adjacent to South Bend, Ind., where Pete Buttigieg, one of the candidates for the Democratic nomination, is mayor.)

The others will be held Oct. 15 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Oct. 22 at Belmont University in Nashville.

A spotlight on the people reshaping our politics. A conversation with voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.

The lone vice-presidential debate is scheduled for Oct. 7 at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Will he turn down the opportunity to appear before a yuuge national TV audience?

He thinks he's smarter than everybody else and could take down anybody in a debate. He's the Dunning-Kruger Effect made flabby orange flesh.

[hlthe2b]

3. I think he is mentally deteriorating sufficiently to be afraid of it if he can find a face-saving

way to avoid it. He's already sought to make the claim that the nonpartisan commission is biased against him.

Many have forgotten that he did not do well against HRC in the debates. It will be infinitely more difficult for him now, given his demonstrated loss of active vocabulary and confusing words that sound or "look" alike. Not to mention the podium design may not be as conducive to his holding on for dear life with both hands or by "stomach lean" to hide is increasing balance issues that we see now almost constantly. Many of the large group of psychiatrists, neurologists and other medical professionals commenting on him suggest that Adderall or similar amphetamine has been his "aid" (evidence his constant sniffing and frequent dilated pupils when he appears particularly "hyped" for a rally or formal appearance), but that can only cover for so long.


Yes, his ego is at stake but he's not going to want any suggestion of his physical/mental decline. So, I'd bet he will not appear or at best, do one if he bullies the commission into bringing on Fox type moderators.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. He's not very self-aware.

His debate performances sucked, but he doesn't think so. I don't think he knows how much he's deteriorated since then. We shall see, though.

[greymattermom]

2. If he debates, the moderators

should repeat his nonsense and ask him what it means. His words coming from a sane person would make it obvious that he speaks nonsense.

[CanonRay]

5. Three Universities...that's probably not Trump-friendly country

but he's not going to show anyway.

[Jarqui]

6. He won't debate. He can't handle it. Too many lies to defend. nt

[Happy Hoosier]

7. If he refuses to debate, the Dem nominee should go on alone with an empty podium for Trump.

Suck it, Eastwood.

[dawg]

8. I'd sit a rubber chicken behind the other microphone.

A rubber chicken with a shitty comb-over.

[Polybius]

9. He threatened not to participate in 2016 too

I think he's lose 5 points automatically if he stays home.

[Mc Mike]

10. Well, a backup plan would be to have our candidate go to another forum, and debate Alec Baldwin,

who can just say all the stupid one liners we'd get from shitler in any case. Make it a 90 minute infomercial where the Dems show what a piece of shit Rump is.