Well, howdy there internet people, it's Bell again. So today we're going to talk about

Trump, debates, doubt, and polls. Trump is once again trying to create doubt about

whether he'll show up to the September debate

with Vice President Harris. But now it's for a different reason. His first excuse was that Harris

wasn't officially the nominee yet.

Well, that's gone.

She's got the delegates.

Now Trump is saying, quote, if I didn't do the debate,

they'd say, oh, Trump's not doing the debate.

Well, yeah, if he doesn't do the debate people will say he

didn't do the debate. That's the kind of brilliant insight Trump is known for.

He went on and that's when it got well a little weird. I mean right now I say why

should I do a debate I'm leading in the polls and everybody knows her, everybody knows me.

First, the purpose of a debate isn't supposed to be self-serving and be all about

whether he thinks he can win without it.

It's supposed to be about giving the American people the choice

and presenting policies and visions.

Second, he's leading in the polls? Is he though?

We could go through and pick and choose polls and then debate whether each poll is a good poll,

or we could just use a polling average.

538's a polling average.

538's national polling average has Harris up by 1.5 points at the time of recording. Almost all of the recent polling and average shows Harris leading and one of the polls gets her a five-point lead.

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