Should Joe Debate? II May 6, 2024May 7, 2024 In response to my thoughts last week: Ed Costello: “Why not refuse to debate unless Trump admits he lost the 2020 election?” → So simple. And brilliant. If he “agrees” — and then, once the debate starts, says something Trumpian like, “I only said that so I could get Joe on stage and get the truth out to the people” — the moderators should be prepared with endless questions on just this one topic (“why did your own head of election security, Chris Krebs, call it ‘the most secure election in history?’ after all, you told us repeatedly that you appoint only ‘the best people’ — did you appoint an incompetent to this important job?” . . . “why did all 62 judges, many of them your own appointees, in all 62 cases you brought alleging election fraud, throw you out of court?” . . . “you have called former vice president Dick Cheney a ‘great guy,’ yet in light of the way you have conducted yourself since you lost the election, he says that ‘in our nation’s 247-year history, there has never been an individual who is greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump’ — can you explain why?” . . . and on and on) until his head explodes. Kathleen M: “Debates would need to be done without an audience with questions being asked by League of Woman Voters or a suitable other group of regular citizens in order for me to even consider Joe Biden standing on the same stage with the current defendant.” → That, too. And as proposed in the piece I linked to last week, the moderator would have to have a mute button to prevent either candidate from interrupting the other.