It's a debate. It's up to the opposing debater to refute what the other person said.
Yes…hold him accountable when nobody’s watching.
I know you’re smart enough that virtually every debate in politics is predated by several days worth of debate prep by the candidates involved.
Debate prep and locking yourself in camp David as war with Russia heats up are not next to each other on the scale.
Apparently you think Joe is incapable of refuting Trumps lies and needs moderator assistance.
And you think journalists are there to be Trump’s PR people, fact-checking him in secret long after viewers have gone to bed.
Probably a better strategy than sharks and batteries imho…
Post debate analysis is long after viewers have gone to bed?
The point of a debate is for the two people to debate.
Yes…camp David…where POTUS is famously locked away and out of contact with the outside world the entire time he’s there.
We’ve also never had someone like Trump who lies and makes incorrect statements more easily than breathing.
disagree
If it were done in good faith sure. In the past candidates may have lied on a few things here and there to better make a point and then I'd agree that it would be the other candidate's job to refute that. But with Trump it's a while different thing... he's flooding the zone with lies and he isn't arguing his positions in good faith. If we just relied on Biden to refute the lies he would just spend the whole debate doing that. That's not the point of this. The point is to display why your policies and positions are the best for our country. All trump has is muddying the waters. It's quite clear no one disputes Trump can't win if we hold him accountable and make him actually defend his positions because we all know he doesn't have any.
Your comment on Trump is somewhat true, if it stopped with Trump, but it didn't, because then we got Biden. It's easy to take shots at Trump, but why doesn't Biden get held to the same standard. We can discuss all the lies about growing up in the Jewish, Puerto Rican, Polish communities, or attending synagogues or black churches, or being a truck driver, or getting arrested for civil rights protests, or Uncle Bosie getting eatne by cannibals, or graduating in the top of his class, or being a star football player, or getting an appointment to the Naval Academy, and on and on. Those are all about Biden himself.
During the debate it's up to the 2 people on stage...or at least it should be IMO.
In an ideal would yes that's what would happen I agree. But the moderators job is to also make sure things are fair for both and while you don't think it's fair they provide fact checking I don't think it's fair to turn the debate into a shit show. It's the moderators job to maintain equality as much as possible and with Trump part of that involves calling out his lies. I'll say this they should stick to just calling out the blatant lies and anything subtle should be on Biden to point out.
Again tho - Biden telling tall tales, stretching the truth, etc., isn’t uncommon for the average politician…and he absolutely should get called out whenever he does it - and he mostly does.
Shame about his uncle being eaten by savages in papa new guinea. Just embellishment though, right?
Once again. That isn't the moderators job...or shouldn't be.
