‘Biden debate conditions’ hilariously trends, Ted Cruz swoops in and offers two for the win
July 9, 2020 | Jon Dougherty
As concerns among Democrats and liberal media outlets rise that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s apparent mental decline would hamper him during debates with President Donald Trump, some are calling for them to be conditioned on ways that would advantage the former vice president.
In a Tuesday column, New York Times writer Thomas Friedman suggested that Biden shouldn’t debate Trump unless two conditions were first met:
First, Biden should declare that he will take part in a debate only if Trump releases his tax returns for 2016 through 2018. Biden has already done so…
And second, Biden should insist that a real-time fact-checking team approved by both candidates be hired by the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates — and that 10 minutes before the scheduled conclusion of the debate this team report on any misleading statements, phony numbers or outright lies either candidate had uttered.
Republicans have blasted such calls as ludicrous and another example of the ‘mainstream’ media working to shield the gaffe-prone Biden from an aggressive President Trump.
Others — including Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas — have used the opportunity to poke fun at Friedman’s conditions.
“Biden’s two conditions: (1) the debate must occur in his basement, and (2) it cannot be televised or broadcast to anyone in America,†Cruz wrote in response to the Friedman piece.
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