Fear of a 'mean, bully Trump' showing up at Harris debate has his advisers on edge: NYT

When a mange riddled deranged old wolf comes out of sheep's clothing... News as 11.

I mean, they are sending a convicted felon against a former prosecutor.

They are not sending their best people, as many people say.

Remember, everybody thought the last debate was going to be a cakewalk for Biden. All he had to do was show up and not look like a sundowning dementia patient. And look how that turned out.

Harris may be able to "handle it" in that he's not going to get her all worked up where she'll break down and cry or something. But will she be able to hold her own on the debate floor? She is untested in that realm and her rally speeches show that she's still not the most confident public speaker, and I could see a situation where Trump just doesn't allow her to get a word in edgewise. Even if he says nothing but his usual incoherent word salads, if he can essentially bully her into silence by just throwing her off with his usual interruptions, firehoses of lies, and shouting down her responses, it could bolster his strongman persona, play to his mysoginist base by "putting her in her place", and give some independent voters the impression that she can't keep up.

Like I said, Harris hasn't been tested. Arguing in a courtroom is one thing when there's a judge who can keep the opposition in check and has the ability to enforce it. It's different when it's moderators who are toothless and can't or won't do anything about Trump who doesn't give a shit about the rules at all. And her continuing uneasiness when she gives rally speeches in front of friendly crowds makes me wonder how she'll handle someone who's game plan is literally to make her look like she belongs back in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant.

Harris' game plan right from the beginning is that he goes to the debate and just lashes out. That's why she wanted the open mics. But like I said before, Biden got the debate he wanted on his terms and it ended up ending his campaign. Hopefully Harris isn't making the same mistake.

A sound bite of him soiling himself on mic would be fun.

Hopefully he blows a vein or two

I’d love it if he got so raged out that he had a stroke on live tv.

nobody is going to watch this who hasn’t already decided

Exactly. Hillary cleaned his clock in the debates and lost. Professor Lictman has documented many debates where the election winner lost. Debates mean nothing. That said, there are other much more reliable factors and Professor Lictman has used them to predicted that Kamala Harris will win this election.

Well, let him run head-first into this trap of his own making. Let the nation decide when Harris can address all given issues with ease and coherent sentences while Trump produces random gibberish.

If they don't get fired first!

They're falling over themselves to suck his dick. None of those people is in any way compelled to do what they're doing. None of them deserves the slightest bit of pity.

They certainly don't get paid enough for for this shit

Misogynist toadies gotta eat y'know.

He’s gonna light his own ass up and she is just going to sit silently while he screams like a little boy.

I think they just mean he's going to be shouting and borderline, if not outright, sexist and racist.

Do we? Has he firmly committed to not being there?

Physically, anyway. Mentally? Depends on how late in the evening it is.