Donald Trump says he won't attend the GOP debate.

As other candidates prepared to get personal,

Rhonda Sandsk's campaign hits the turning point

and Hunter Biden's lawyers target Joe Biden.

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Well, we finally reached it. It is debate week on Wednesday this week. There will be a Republican debate. Will the frontrunner be part of that Republican debate? Absolutely not. Donald Trump's like, no, not interested. I'm leading by 80,000 points. I don't need to be part of the debate. And frankly, I totally get it. I get it. He did the same thing in 2016 after the Megan Kelly debate where he didn't like the questions he was asked. He simply left the next debate. He just absconded. He was like, I'm not going to be part of this. It didn't hurt him in any way, shape, or form. On a logical level, it makes perfect sense from not to take part in the Republican debate. At a sort of principled level, he certainly should because there are serious questions to be asked about whether he should be the nominee or not. This is true for anybody who's running for the nomination. Joe Biden should be debating Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for sure. And people who are voting for Trump in the primaries should remember this tactic because I promise you, promise you, promise you, one year from now when Joe Biden is the nominee. if Donald Trump is the nominee. Joe Biden will not debate Donald Trump. Get ready for it. It ain't going to happen.

Joe Biden will the nominee. If Donald Trump is the nominee,

Joe Biden will not debate Donald Trump. Get ready for it. It ain't going to happen. Joe Biden will make any excuse. He's not going to get on a stage with him. And Donald Trump's people will say, well, he's afraid. And at that point, every Democrat and every member of the media will come back and say, well, Donald Trump didn't debate any of the Republicans. Why exactly should Joe Biden debate Donald Trump. Biden's excuse will be something about trumping an insurrectionary or Trump being a criminal indictee or whatever it is. And the media will side with Joe Biden and there will be no debate. So if you are nominating Donald Trump because you think he's going to debate Joe Biden, just get ready. Joe Biden is not going to debate Donald Trump. But put that aside, there's a perfectly logical reason for Donald Trump not to debate the rest of the Republican field. Namely, he is leading them by leaps and bounds. There's a brand new CBS poll. And what it shows is Trump way out in front at 62% of the vote. 62% of the vote for Donald Trump. That is a massive number for Donald Trump. Now, one of the theories about Trump had been that he was going to hover around in the 30s,

maybe in the 40s.

If he was lucky, he would break 50, him at 62% is not challengeable.

Because what that means at 62%, obviously, is that no consolidation of the field is likely to matter.

Now, it's obviously super early.

A lot can happen between now and January, including possible actual court time for

the former president of the United States. However, a huge percentage of Trump's base is very

locked in on Donald Trump, which man, you buy the ticket, you're going to take the ride.

Whatever it's going to be, it's going to be. I'm just going to say every tautology I know right

now because the reality is that everyone knows Donald Trump's flaws as a candidate. Every single person in the United States has an opinion on Donald Trump. Donald Trump is baked into the cake. You're taking an awful big bet, Vader. This had better work. I mean, if Donald Trump is the nominee, you're running directly against four separate indictments that are

coming down in the first half of next year, you're running directly against the generalized

American perception that Donald Trump was not a good actor between November 4th of 2020 and January 6th

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