Rush Limbaugh has been saying for weeks that Joe Biden would skip the presidential debates in the fall. Now former Clinton press secretary Joe Lockhart has taken to CNN.com to argue Biden should skip it, in an article headlined “Joe Biden could still lose this election.” On Saturday, Michael Smerconish put him on TV to make the case, and quoted from it: “ Whatever you do, don’t debate Trump. Trump has now made more than 20,000 misleading or false statements according to the Washington Post . It’s a fool’s errand to enter the ring with someone who can’t follow the rules or the truth.” On Twitter, Sen. Ted Cruz cracked “Basement strategy, part 2.” It never occurred to Smerconish to ask Lockhart that if it sounds undemocratic for Trump to talk of moving the election, doesn’t it sound undemocratic for Democrats to talk about skipping the tradition of presidential debates? This is CNN, the network that gave about 27 Democratic candidates hours and hours of “town hall meetings” with fellow Democrats, but somehow they can’t advocate for a two-sided debate. Instead, Smerconish just suggested Trump would make hay out of it. MICHAEL SMERCONISH: Joe, if the president is watching this right now, I could see him rubbing his hands together and saying, oh, my God. That would be perfect because then I, of course, get to say he’s afraid to get on the stage with me. It has to do with his cognitive abilities. JOE LOCKHART: Yes. Well, he will say that. And I think as I wrote in the article it’s worth the risk. This is a president who as I said in the article is incapable of telling the truth. He spins these conspiracy theories out there. And up until now most of those theories are broadcast […]
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