{"id":23266,"date":"2020-08-03T18:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T22:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=23266"},"modified":"2020-08-03T18:43:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T22:43:37","slug":"this-is-how-the-democrats-are-cunningly-attempting-to-justify-biden-bailing-on-any-debates-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=23266","title":{"rendered":"This is how the Democrats are cunningly attempting to justify Biden bailing on any debates with Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Former Clinton Press Secretary Urges Biden \u201cWhatever You Do, Don\u2019t Debate Trump\u201d<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>\u201cIt\u2019s a fool\u2019s errand.\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Steve Watson<br \/>\nSUMMIT News<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23273\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23273\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/GettyImages-1224610739.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"420\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23273\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/GettyImages-1224610739.jpg 800w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/GettyImages-1224610739-300x158.jpg 300w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/GettyImages-1224610739-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-23273\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WILDWOOD, NJ &#8211; JULY 03: Girls walk past President Trump 2020 and Joe Biden 2020 sweatshirts displayed for sale on the boardwalk on July 3, 2020 in Wildwood, New Jersey.  New Jersey beaches have reopened for the July 4th holiday as some coronavirus restrictions have been lifted, along with casinos, amusement rides and water parks at limited capacity. (Photo by Mark Makela\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Bill Clinton\u2019s former press secretary has urged Joe Biden not to debate President Trump, claiming that \u201cit\u2019s a fool\u2019s errand\u201d because Trump will not \u2018follow the rules\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Appearing on CNN over the weekend, Joe Lockhart followed up\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/07\/27\/opinions\/biden-trump-presidential-election-lockhart\/index.html\">an op-ed<\/a>\u00a0urging that Biden will be consumed by having to \u2018fact check\u2019 everything Trump says.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1289560337910575108&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fsummit.news%2F2020%2F08%2F03%2Fformer-clinton-press-secretary-urges-biden-whatever-you-do-dont-debate-trump%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=223fc1c4%3A1596143124634&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1289560337910575108\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhatever you do, don\u2019t debate Trump,\u201d Lockhart wrote in the piece, adding that \u201cTrump has now made more than 20,000 misleading or false statements according to the Washington Post.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a fool\u2019s errand to enter the ring with someone who can\u2019t follow the rules or the truth, lockhart continued, adding that \u201cBiden will undoubtedly take heat from Republicans and the media for skipping the debates. But it\u2019s worth the risk as trying to debate someone incapable of telling the truth is an impossible contest to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump \u201cwill take the truth and destroy it, and Biden will be in the position of correcting him over and over and over again. I don\u2019t think he should give him that platform.\u201d Lockhart said during the CNN interview.<\/p>\n<p>No mention, however, of the fact that many on the left do not want Biden to debate Trump because they know Biden is prone to complete brain freezes and his own untruthful statements, such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2020\/jul\/20\/facebook-posts\/yes-biden-has-said-150-million-americans-died-guns\/\">a recent assertion<\/a>\u00a0that 120 MILLION Americans have died from Coronavirus, and 150 MILLION have died from gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>A recent poll found that only 54 per cent of Americans believe Biden is capable of debating Trump.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/07\/14\/poll-only-54-of-americans-think-biden-is-capable-of-debating-trump\/\">The survey also found<\/a>\u00a0that almost a third (29 per cent) of voters thought it would have no impact on Biden\u2019s campaign if he refused to debate Trump, while 56 per cent thought it would hurt his candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/07\/01\/video-biden-says-he-has-been-tested-for-cognitive-decline-and-is-constantly-tested\/\">recently asserted<\/a>\u00a0that he is \u201cconstantly tested\u201d for cognitive decline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, all you got to do is watch me and I can hardly wait to compare my cognitive capability to the cognitive capability of the man I\u2019m running against,\u201d Biden declared.<\/p>\n<p>Other polls show that 38 per cent of American voters think Biden has \u201csome form of dementia,\u201d including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/06\/30\/one-fifth-of-democrats-think-biden-has-dementia\/\">one in five Democrats<\/a>. 61 per cent of voters also think Biden should address the dementia issue publicly.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has noted that it is highly concerning that his rival for the Presidential election cannot even speak properly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhenever he does talk, he can\u2019t put two sentences together,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m0YKf-caVuY\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s wonderful to say I feel sorry or that\u2019s too bad, because I do, except we are talking about the presidency of the United States, and it is just not acceptable.\u201d Trump added.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/08\/03\/former-clinton-press-secretary-urges-biden-whatever-you-do-dont-debate-trump\/\">https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/08\/03\/former-clinton-press-secretary-urges-biden-whatever-you-do-dont-debate-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Clinton Press Secretary Urges Biden \u201cWhatever You Do, Don\u2019t Debate Trump\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}