DON'T DEBATE...

[myohmy2]

...Joe, DON'T DEBATE trump unless 100% physical separation is guaranteed between you and trump, your people his people and the commission's staff...

...trump's an asshole...he'll find some reason to walk over towards you, to try to shack you up, to try to shake your hand or to get in your face someway...in self-defense you'll backup or retreat, the optics and trump's ensuing verbal exchange will be horrible...you can feel it Joe, trump's going to do this...

...I'm even worried about Kamala tonight debating the zombie without 100% physical separation guaranteed to all parties...

...you and Kamala must be kept safe...

...play safe, be safe...

[jcgoldie]

1. Make them be transparent about the timeline

When was the last negative test?

When was the first positive test?

They evade it completely because its very evident he was walking around infecting people AFTER he knew he was positive... the only question is when was that Tuesday, Wednesday? We know it was at least Thursday.

But that should be the minimum to agree to any debate. And October 15th is too early regardless as its only 14 days since the ANNOUNCEMENT that he was positive.

[avebury]

2. I read something a few days ago where they had not

been testing him everyday. They assumed because everyone else was being tested that they didn't need to test him. That is their problem because it feeds into the narrative on how careless he and his minions have been.

[jcgoldie]

5. ...or they were testing him everyday...

...and ignorance seems like a better excuse to them at this point than having willfully spread the disease due to attempting to coverup the diagnosis.

[Marius25]

3. There is no real benefit to debating him at this point.

Trump's polls crashed from his horrible first debate, and Joe has a valid reason to not want to be around him now since Trump is infected.

[mucifer]

4. I hope the debate commission is using a better rapid test than the abbott test

[captain queeg]

6. I hadn't considered trump might do something like that

Try to come over closer, that would certainly be his style. At this point I don’t think they’ll end up debating but I hope if they do Joe is firm about the rules, demand some way to enforce them. I flashed on when Clinton debated Bob Dole, he sort of took a threatening step toward Bob, just enough to get a bit of reaction. I’m sure that was part of the plan at the time. Of course I’m sure it was just a bit of theater or mind game. With trump the psycho you really don’t know what he’d try. Like his followers he might try to cough on Joe or something

I don’t think trump is doing ok physically. Maybe that’s just wishful thinking but I think he’ll be back in the hospital. But Joe doesn’t need the debate, he’s way ahead, so don’t give into any of their BS.

[Johnny2X2X]

7. I agree

Trump will use his Covid as a prop, he’ll walk towards Biden knowing Biden must back away to stay safe and then make an ad about Biden being afraid of him.

[Buckeyeblue]

8. Trump needs to pass a series of independently administered tests in he days leading up to the debate

Obviously, his own people will lie about it.And the health of the next president needs to be protected.