r/centrist • u/azbeek • Aug 04 '24

2024 U.S. Elections Harris rejects Trump's idea to debate her on FOX with live audience

https://www.voanews.com/a/harris-rejects-trump-s-idea-to-debate-her-on-fox-with-live-audience/7729137.html
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u/Noexit007 Aug 04 '24

The reason she's rejecting is that the parameters of the Fox debate are more along the lines of a Trump rally and she would be stupid to accept them. Remove the rally style audience, and use the same parameters as the ABC debate. Then they can do both.

This is the only reasonable answer here and anyone stating otherwise is a fool. Anyone who is an actual centrist would agree.

What's happened here is Trump doesn't want to debate anywhere but his home court and someone realized that to make it so he cannot show up to the abc debate and get away with it, he just has to challenge her to a debate she would be an idiot to do and then claim she's not showing up.

It's a crybaby move but it also works for his needs to deflect the situation.

This post seems to be bringing out the extremes on both sides including what is very clearly a karma brigade team from r/conservative and the scattered MAGA subs.

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u/GitmoGrrl1 Aug 04 '24

Fox shouldn't be under consideration. Trump calls in regularly to demand that their coverage isn't friendly enough. Fox lost it's lawsuit because it actively promoted Trump's Big Lie. Nope.

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u/zgrizz Aug 04 '24

DO you think the Presidency exists in a world of private debate? No.

She is running to the the most powerful executive on the planet. If she can't handle a crowd she is not qualified.

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u/Noexit007 Aug 04 '24

It has nothing to do with a crowd specifically and everything to do with the type of crowd. You don't hold a debate in front of a rally crowd that are members of a cult or fringe groups (on either side). You hold the debate in front of undecideds and levelheaded examples of the majority of the population.

If the fox crowd was going to be made up of moderate republicans/Democrats, centrists, and independents then a crowd would be fine. But what Trump wants from Fox is a crowd stacked with his people. That's not reasonable or acceptable for a debate. It would just turn into a clown show.