Have you heard the good news? There’s not going to be a presidential debate this week. Anecdotally speaking, everyone I know is happy to hear this. The last Trump-Biden debate was so bad, so unwatchable, it moved CNN’s Dana Bash to dub it a “shit show” and it moved me to wonder aloud to my roommate: “Can they say ‘shit’ on cable news?” (Dana Bash says yes.)
But of course Trump is pissed about this and he can’t let it go. Though Biden agreed to a virtual debate on Thursday—given the president’s recent covid diagnosis—Trump refused, insisting that he’s well enough to debate in person. “[There’s] no medical reason why the Commission on Presidential Debates should shift the debate to a virtual setting, postpone it, or otherwise alter it in any way,” Bill Stepien, Trump’s campaign manager (who also tested positive for covid), said at the time. “The commission must stop protecting Joe Biden from this in-person debate and allow the event to proceed as it was agreed to months ago.”
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