{"id":31260,"date":"2020-10-09T17:54:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T21:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=31260"},"modified":"2020-10-09T17:54:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T21:54:31","slug":"how-does-a-treacherous-chris-wallace-who-colluded-with-joe-biden-lecture-president-trump-about-the-second-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=31260","title":{"rendered":"How does a treacherous Chris Wallace who colluded with Joe Biden lecture President Trump about the second debate?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Chris Wallace Says President Trump \u2018Made a Big Mistake\u2019 By Bowing Out of Virtual Debate<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->By Colby Hall<br \/>\nMEDIAite<\/p>\n<p>Fox News anchor\u00a0<strong>Chris Wallace<\/strong>\u00a0put in as stark as terms possible that, in his esteem, President\u00a0<strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>\u00a0made a \u201cbig mistake\u201d in bowing out of the virtual second debate.<\/p>\n<p>News broke early Thursday morning that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/election-2020\/breaking-commission-on-presidential-debates-announce-second-debate-will-be-virtual\/\">th<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/election-2020\/breaking-commission-on-presidential-debates-announce-second-debate-will-be-virtual\/\">e Commission on Presidential Debates had announced<\/a>\u00a0that the second planned debate, set for October 15th, would be held with both candidates receiving questions from Town Hall participants in Miami via remote insert studios. Shortly after that story broke, President Trump appeared in a phone interview with Fox Business anchor\u00a0<strong>Maria Bartiromo<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/election-2020\/breaking-trump-tells-maria-bartiromo-he-wont-do-virtual-debate\/\">immediately announced that he would not participate.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since then, former Vice President\u00a0<strong>Joe Biden<\/strong>\u00a0has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/news\/abc-news-announces-town-hall-for-biden-moderated-by-george-stephanopoulos-same-night-as-second-presidential-debate\/\">announced his plans to participate in a Town Hall interview hosted by ABC News\u2019\u00a0<strong>George Stephanopolous<\/strong><\/a>, while the Trump campaign has signaled interest in participating in a second debate that now seems impossible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/election-2020\/debate-chaos-trump-bails-on-virtual-version-and-demands-live-event-biden-plan-his-own-town-hall-commission-still-refuses-in-person-forum\/\">Confused<\/a>? Don\u2019t be. Because Chris Wallace opened with \u201cI actually don\u2019t think it\u2019s that complicated. I think there is not going to be the debate next week, and, pretty clearly, I think the president made a big mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it was unreasonable for the commission to say, look, given all the concerns about people\u2019s health that we are going to make it a virtual debate,\u201d he continued, defending the Commission\u2019s decision to host the debate virtually.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere I think the president made a mistake is maybe a virtual debate isn\u2019t an in-person debate, but it\u2019s better than no debate,\u201d Wallace explained. \u201cThat\u2019s what the president will get now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wallace then explained why a debate is more important right now for Trump than for Biden, noting that \u201cHe is behind in the polls. He has two opportunities; it seems to me two big opportunities to flip the script, which were the two debates, and he gave one of them away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/chris-wallace-says-president-trump-made-a-big-mistake-by-bowing-out-of-virtual-debate\/\">https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/chris-wallace-says-president-trump-made-a-big-mistake-by-bowing-out-of-virtual-debate\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Wallace Says President Trump \u2018Made a Big Mistake\u2019 By Bowing Out of Virtual Debate<\/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-31260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}