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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump is hard to debate because he doesn't debate. He rambles, lies, and ignores the question.
Kamala needs to say things like
Im afraid in his advanced age he doesnt understand the questions.
He didnt answer. He rambled. Let me answer for you.
No one knows what he means but I can respond to the question for the American people.
8 years later and we better learn how to debate Trump. He has brought down many skilled orators and smart people (even if we greatly disagree with their politics). Its theater to him. Its not an intellectual exercise. She has to guard against demanding questions from the moderator and defend her flank against his stupidity! Kamala will have her hands full.
TommieMommy
(607 posts)Trueblue1968
(17,755 posts)But in a way that will make his head explode !!!!!!!!
tanyev
(43,980 posts)onandup
(540 posts)nm
Silent Type
(5,490 posts)something similar.
And assuming the debate will be on split-screen, bet she's working on appropriately mocking facial expressions to show when trump says stupid stuff and lies, which will be most of the time.
ProudMNDemocrat
(18,408 posts)As she points to tRump..."You asked him a direct question and all he gave in response was LIES! Do YOUR DAMN jobs for once!" Then answer with the time she has left.
Rest assured, the ABC moderators will take notice.
I can dream.
Alliepoo
(2,381 posts)How I would LOVE to see her do this!!!
wnylib
(23,613 posts)Last edited Sun Sep 8, 2024, 04:46 PM - Edit history (1)
Attacking the moderators like that is counterproductive. But dismissing everything Trump says as lies or gibberish is a good move. Then she can move on to her own articulate responses.
Most likely the moderators will ask Harris for a response to something Trump says, so she can choose, if she wants to, anything worth countering with facts and say that the rest was such gibberish that it's not worth wasting her time on. She can make him look foolish, old, and out of touch. I want to hear her say that he didn't answer the question and just rambled nonsense.
no_hypocrisy
(48,041 posts)Gish Gallop. Irrelevancy. Appeal to Authority. Hasty Generalization. Overgeneralization. False Comparison. Appeal to Emotion. Ad Hominem.
20 Types of Logical Fallacies and Examples (scroll down)
https://www.campusexplorer.com/student-resources/logical-fallacies/
epreic01
(140 posts)Early in the debate that she will not waste the American peoples time responding to lies and conspiracy theories. This debate is not about me or Donald Trump. It is about the American people and who is ready to lead our country forward with clear eyes and a steady hand.
Squaredeal
(494 posts)Then she can proceed to answer the question.
If Trump decides to call her by her first name, no mater if he intentionally mispronounces it or not to try to belittle her, she should just call him Don to give it right back and put him in his place. It would really rile him too.
Liberal In Texas
(14,169 posts)A Gish Galloper doesn't stop talking and keeps changing the subject to not let the other side refute the lies.
In the case of this debate coming up, the closed mics for the side not supposed to be talking might be a good thing.
GoodRaisin
(9,380 posts)he didnt answer a single question and lied every time he opens his mouth.
CrispyQ
(37,578 posts)It was a long rambling answer & when he was finished, Chris said, "Now, here was the question." He played back the question, which was about climate change, & not one thing Trump had said was about climate change. But of course there was no pushback from the questioner.
rainin
(3,104 posts)about climate change and don wasn't able to focus long enough to answer the question that was asked. Maybe next time he will " Then proceed to give her answer
CrispyQ
(37,578 posts)He's deteriorating rapidly since his "debate" with Biden. It's beyond shameful that most of the media isn't making this at least as much of an issue as they did with Biden.
getagrip_already
(16,908 posts)And of course they will point out how tsf appeared strong and imposing while at the same te saying kamala was weakly responding and avoiding answering the question.
They might as well post it now.
GoodRaisin
(9,380 posts)They will whitewash him and critique her. Weve been down this road before and its always the same trolls waiting under the bridge.
gulliver
(13,303 posts)His performance in the debate with Biden was abysmal, shifty, lying, bragging. His acting skills were not half what they were in 2016. Fear, bitterness, and age have caught up with him.
Martin Eden
(13,216 posts)And absolutely NAIL him for it, so that everyone watching knows it's an easily disprovable lie.
Then address the voters, especially Republican voters. Say that when he boldly lies to you about important matters like that, nothing he says can be trusted.
Jersey Devil
(10,013 posts)except maybe to briefly state "his answer was full of lies". Instead, she should concentrate on presenting her own ideas and opinions so that voters can get to know her better. Everyone knows that Trump constantly lies, even his own supporters, so pointing out that he lied about this or that accomplishes nothing. The impression that should be made is about her ideas and how helpful they could be.
geo1
(78 posts)Yes, let that idiot blabber, flail, and fling his crap, then land concise blows. I'd be willing to bet that the microphone mute argument was strategically orchestrated by the Harris campaign. (Please don't throw me into that briar patch!) I'd sure want that clown on mute while I was answering questions. I feel very confident that Kamala, Tim, and their campaign people know what they need to do to win this election. We need to concentrate on doing our part to help get out the vote.
kacekwl
(7,300 posts)It's a question and answer session.
Gaytano70
(753 posts)...like what spews from the 🟠💩's anus lips is the"truth."
Girard442
(6,323 posts)...we could drive a stake through the heart of the idea of political debates? They have become a joke.
A really lame joke.
Hermit-The-Prog
(36,144 posts)ColinC
(9,846 posts)An audience of millions of people
Sogo
(5,539 posts)Older people vote in large numbers.
wiggs
(7,988 posts)inability to answer, his incompetence, his ignorance, his limited command of issues, his incoherence, his victimhood and narcissism, the fact that much of his cabinet and staff think he's a moron or unfit...those will get under his skin. And those are questions, along with his age, that are recently 'in the air' for public discussion. However obvious and clear his limitations have been to DUrs and others for years, the issue with his disordered and increasingly limited brain is new to many.
There's no one on earth who hasn't heard him lie. Not new.
llmart
(16,137 posts)I'd like to see her work in this statement:
"I would like to congratulate my opponent on finally admitting that he lost the 2020 election to President Biden."
Keep that info out there.
rainin
(3,104 posts)I heard part of the reason President Biden struggled in the beginning was trump was constantly talking in his ear. trump believes he's god so he'd go ballistic if she disrespected him like that. Hahahaha That would be awesome
polichick
(37,420 posts)ThoughtCriminal
(14,199 posts)They will say nothing about Trump's rambling, word-salad, non-answers, but will spend hours analyzing the part where Harris needed to clear her throat midway though a detailed foreign policy answer.
lame54
(36,333 posts)"Well, that was a stream of horseshit. Now, let's talk about..."
Hekate
(93,494 posts)Trump. Does. Not. Debate.
He spews a firehose of sewage, which no so-called moderator cares to stop, and which overwhelms his opponents who have no opportunity to respond in any meaningful way.
That is not a debate.
Takket
(22,356 posts)drumpf hangs on simply by the media just shrugging off everything he says as drumpf being drumpf.
bdamomma
(65,124 posts)are they going to let him just lie about things and not say that's not true what you are saying to the felon?????
Are they going to put the country first before their profits????? Ha, I don't think so. I really don't even want to even listen or hear that POS felon. He's a criminal. But I must stand with my candidate for President . VP Harris.
I will be here of course; you guys are my like-minded intelligent people!!