She was pointing to Trump’s problem with making true statements….
But at the debate?
It WILL be Donald Trump’s reality v s Joe Biden AND the questioners…
There will be no audience which Trump like to play off….
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday there shouldn’t be any presidential debates this year between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, adding that the president would debase the debate stage with poor behavior.
“I don’t think there should be any debates,” Pelosi told reporters. “I do not think that the president of the United States has comported himself in a way that anybody should that has any association with truth, evidence, data and facts.”
“I wouldn’t legitimize a conversation with him nor a debate in terms of the presidency of the United States,” she added.
Biden and Trump are set to face off during three debates before Election Day, with the first scheduled for Sept. 29 at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Pelosi acknowledged that Biden, who has expressed excitement for facing the president, didn’t share her view on the debate. But she still told reporters about her distaste for Trump’s past debate performances.
Pelosi called Trump’s 2016 debates with Hillary Clinton “disgraceful,” emphasizing how he loomed behind her on the stage as she spoke. Clinton lateradmitted that Trump’s lurking made her “skin crawl.”
“He’ll probably act in a way that is beneath the dignity of the presidency,” Pelosi said. “He does that every day.”….
Biden’s in….
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Thursday said that he would debate President Trump shortly after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) suggested that Biden shouldn’t “legitimize” the incumbent president by participating in debates.
“No. As long as the commission continues down the straight now as they have, I’m going to debate him,” Biden told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell when asked whether he would consider not debating Trump following Pelosi’s comments.
“I am going to be the fact-checker on the stage while I’m debating him,” Biden continued…..