Björn af Kleen: Canceled debate indicates Trump has lost hope of the majority



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It is common knowledge that Donald Trump does not use a computer in his professional practice.

When the organizers behind the second presidential debate demanded that Trump and challenger Joe Biden participate remotely, due to the risk of infection from the president, Trump decided to resign.

– I will not waste my time in a digital debate. Debating behind a computer is ridiculous, Trump told Fox News.

The digital debate, scheduled for October 15, would have been more technically sophisticated than Trump looked when he resigned.

But the remote format had given the moderator more control over the debate. That threat may have affected Trump’s decision to leave the walk. (Although Trump’s campaign manager later tried to overturn the decision, after the president’s bodyguard basically declared that the president was healthy. But then Biden had already booked another television appearance that night. It is also said that Trump’s campaign Trump is now negotiating with TV channels for a performance rather than a debate.)

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Trump’s appearances after his hospital stay at Walter Reed last weekend have spared opposition. A hearing-impaired debate against Biden would have been more challenging. Perhaps advisers doubt that Trump is in good health.

Trump sabotaged the first debate by constantly talking about Biden. Before the second battle, the organizer released new rules. In the future, the moderator will have the power to disconnect the microphone of the participant who does not have the floor.

This is the first time in 70 years. how a televised presidential debate is canceled. “The loser is the American people,” the organizer said.

Trump and Biden are losing a potential audience of around 70 million. The first debate last week was watched by 73.1 million.

Why voluntarily give up a 90-minute television show that may appeal to a fifth of the population?

Trump gives the impression of having given up the battle for the majority.

On Friday, Trump decided to step in as a replacement for radio demagogue Rush Limbaugh. He dedicated 55 minutes to an interview on the Fox Business channel. In the evening, he had Fox News family physician Marc Siegel perform a remote televised medical exam.

In these formats, where he meets admirers, he lectured his Minister of Justice about the fact that he has not yet put Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in prison as punishment for the Russia investigation.

Trump hinted that he was prepared to go for a nuclear or similar attack on Iran unless the archenemy is low.

He launched a conspiracy theory that California’s water shortage is self-inflicted because the state is pouring clean water into the sea to save an unusual little fish whose species name he did not specify.

Sensational theater that probably didn’t attract many new downtown voters.

Trump has taken the truth lightly since he moved into the White House and, according to the Washington Post, he lied an average of 16 times a day since taking office.

But for the past week, it is as if the president has cut all ties with reality and resigned himself to the fact that the presidency is about to slip out of his hands. The field cashier runs out and goes back in measurements.

“It’s pretty simple,” a Republican adviser told New York Magazine Friday night. “He mishandled the coronavirus, he has never been popular and he will lose a lot.”

Faced with the threat of a loss, Trump seems to shoot the majority of the population that seems willing to vote for him. It is difficult to interpret the canceled debate in any other way.

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