CNN Panel: Should Biden Debate Trump?

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Wallace: “Trump‘s moved to declare the race over by challenging President Biden to start debating. Now. But Trump skip the GOP debates and Biden has dismissed Trump as someone outside political norms who tried to overturn the last election, lulu should Biden debate Trump.”

Garcia-NAVARRO: “Yes. And I‘m saying this as a journalist because I believe and also as someone who believes in democracy, I mean, I think I‘ve had a big problem with the fact that Trump has not wanted to participate in any but these GOP debates I think it‘s been good for him. I think it‘s managed to actually sort of swell support and sort of places him as the front runner. But I mean, I want to see a healthy debate. I want these two people to come together and actually talk about the issue.”

Wallace: “Would you say if he clinches the nomination by mid-March start now or wait till labor day?”

Garcia-NAVARRO: “I think he should I think I think you should wait but let me just put a caveat here. I think Biden should debate Trump. I also think it‘s very important how he debates Trump. I think I would like to see, first of all, it‘d be with the fact-based media. I would like to see someone like you, Chris, perhaps moderated perhaps someone like kara, perhaps someone like me I‘m just saying the second thing I would like to see is that I‘m not sure that I would like to have it be with the rabble-rousing public. And I mean, this is from the far left and the far right pesky voters. Voters do not just if there were just regular voters, that‘s one thing. But what we‘re going to see now is perhaps agile potatoes on both sides, on the left maybe people who are angry at Biden over the issue of Gaza. And on the right, maybe people who are very much pro Trump.”

Wallace: “Should the president of the United States share a stage? With someone and an accord that standing that platform to someone who says he didn‘t lose the last electiom.”

Goldberg: I don‘t I honestly don‘t know. I mean, there are two different questions here. One is is it in Biden‘s political interest? And then that is predicated on the question of is he physically up to doing it? I think there‘s good reason to believe his people don‘t think he is. If if he wasn‘t willing to do what typically softball interview for the Super Bowl. They may have real concerns right or wrong that doing an hour-long debate with Donald Trump he may not have the stamina for it. The cognitive condition to do it. That said, I think the fact that Donald Trump didn‘t debate in the primaries and that Donald Trump has basically refused to concede the election and said the election was stolen. It gives him an excuse not to debate Trump that I think most of the Biden gettable voters would forgive.”

SALAM: “If Joe Biden doesn‘t participate in debates, that is a tell that Democrats are thinking hard about a plan b. If there were some kind of open primary as her client columnist for The New York Times, lulu, his colleague has floated this idea that wait a second. If you have a new democratic nominee emerge in the late summer, early fall, that‘s something that could really change the dynamic of the race. So deeply pessimistic about whether or not Biden can handle himself. The bar would be so low. But if Biden breed to take partner debate and was basically sticking to his talking points more or less competent so that would be here.”

SWISHER: “Debate is going to happen. They‘re going to have a debate. This is just it‘s gonna be after labor day and Biden is still the candidate at this point. I know everybody loves all these different little scenarios, but that‘s where we are right now. And it seems that that‘s very good. Biden‘s actually been out and about a lot more lately, which is interesting he‘s got to debate him. He can‘t refuse to debate, is a bad look if he doesn‘t and he‘s got I if I were him, I‘d go with my come on, man kind of attitude like come on man, you‘re a liar, come on man, you‘re crazy and—“