Heather Cox Richardson points to what the Harris campaign says as Trump tries to weasel out of debating Harris:
“Our understanding is that Trump’s handlers prefer the muted microphone because they don’t think their candidate can act presidential for 90 minutes on his own.”
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #MentalStability #MentalAcuity
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"Over the past few years, observers who have been paying attention to Trump have noted that he appeared to be sliding mentally and warned that when voters saw him again outside his Mar-a-Lago cocoon and his rallies they would be shocked. That prediction appears to have come true."
#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #MentalStability #MentalAcuity
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"Trump seems to have little interest in doing the actual work of campaigning, instead swinging between grievance-filled rants and flat recitations of his apocalyptic worldview, trying to stay in the center of public consciousness with outrageous lies and, as he did in his suggestion that he would not debate Harris, telling people to 'stay tuned!'”
#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #MentalStability #MentalAcuity
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"It’s clear that millions of Americans don’t care that Trump is ostensibly mentally unfit to be president. Neither do the leaders of his party. But if American democracy winds up surviving this existential jousting, the public should demand that measures be put in place to avoid allowing mentally unstable or cognitively unwell people to sit behind the most powerful desk in the world ever again."
~ Kim Wehle
#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #MentalStability #MentalAcuity
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/cognitive-fitness-mental-health-test-president-trump-biden
Mike Luckovich's commentary on the debate dodger.
#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/8/27/2265919/-Cartoon-Debate-dodger
"I don’t think that even the outlets that recognize the troll are giving the Kamala Harris campaign enough credit for the jujitsu they’re engaged in with the debate. …
Because of a decision Joe Biden made, Donald Trump has lost the ability to choose whether he wants to face someone like Kamala Harris."
~ Marcy Wheeler
#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate
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https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/08/27/kamalas-campaign-pushes-trumps-impulse-control-problems/
"And he’s stuck: The thing his MAGAts like about him is his spontaneous riffs, many of which rely on the humiliation of others. But if he calls the Vice President the N-word or bitch publicly, it’ll further sink him in the polls.
At least from the moment that Kamala started to put on campaign events that Trump would love to pull off, the campaign has been damaging Trump’s ego."
"Undoubtedly Michelle and Barack Obama (among others) made that worse at the DNC. And all that makes some outburst that could doom his campaign more likely."
Perfect, except maybe the note should start, "Little Donnie..."
Yes, and I feel that there should be age limits too. Even normal age related cognitive decline can blur some of the intricate details that so many policies have, causing politicians to sign/not sign them into law without understanding the broader scope of effects.
I did think about that too, but in this particular case I felt like an exception was needed.
Decisions with age related mental decline could impact millions of people. If it were me personally, I'd back down if I had to make a decision like that and I was slowing down.
Not everyone is aware of their mental status though, so someone stepping in is sometimes necessary.
I know it's not a favorable POV, but that's my position on this particular matter.
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