Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour 3.

How on earth is it like the third hour?

Welcome, it's Eric Erickson here.

Wow, time moves fast on radio.

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The Democrats are playing this up, and there's some relevance to it and I should have played

it last hour, but I want you to hear this. This is circulating among Democrats and Trump's

opponents on the right. He's too cowardly to even show up and debate. I hear he's afraid to debate. Is that true? I hear he's afraid to debate. Now I understand he's canceling the debates. Let's see what happens. I think that's not going to be a good move for it. You want debate, so do I. I want debates, sir. You said you would like to have more than three debates with Joe Biden? I said, I'll have three in any amount they want. Three debates is fine or make it four. They're playing very cute. They're trying to get out. There's no question about that. And I'll do any amount that they want. It doesn't make any difference to me. You said you would show up for Joe Rogan if he did a four-hour debate between you and Joe Biden. Well, it was sort of done in jest and all, but I would.

I mean, I think it's good.

I think Joe has to be exposed.

We have a sleepy guy in a basement of the house who doesn't want to do debates.

I don't think he wants to debate at all.

I've seen that he wants to try and blame COVID for that too.

He's not getting out of his basement.

He's got a, you know, basement deal going.

So they're all playing this up. It is really smart for Donald Trump to not do this first debate.

It is really dumb of Donald Trump to preclude himself from doing future debates. And the reason is, if something were to happen, if someone else does get traction,

he might want to debate, and now it will look like he was a coward.

And is only coming in because of polling changes.

Now, maybe his polling won't change.

Just walk through this with me.

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