Biden Should Pull a Trump and Skip the Debates

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Donald ditched the Republicans and Joe should ditch Donald.

Without question, Biden should deny Trump this opportunity.

Trump's decision to skip last week's debate made strategic sense. Why give a bunch of runners-up, has-beens, and never-going-to-bes—most of whom have as much of a shot at being the next president as my Labrador retriever—oxygen, a platform, and higher ratings at this stage of the primary. This same logic is why incumbent presidents haven't participated in primary debates in decades.

Ahead of the first RNC debate in Milwaukee on Aug. 23, the Biden-Harris 2024 Campaign and Democratic National Committee launched billboards, a plane banner, and a mobile billboard truck in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.But the reason Biden should skip debating Trump is far different. It is not that he is so far ahead it is not worth giving Trump the oxygen. Far from it.

To say Trump has a casual relationship with the truth and reality is the understatement of the year. While in office,'s analysis, Trump was telling nearly 40 lies a day in his final year in office. And while fact-checkers stopped tabulating after he left office, that number has surely only skyrocketed as Trump has spent the last two years repeating lies about the 2020 election ad nauseum.

Give Trump a mic, a stage, and a large audience, and he will use the platform to do nothing but spread more lies. And likely with little pushback or fact-checking from the moderator. Just ask

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