2020 Presidential Race

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Franklin Pierce said:
Clinton Aide Advises Joe Biden: โ€˜Whatever You Do, Donโ€™t Debate Trumpโ€™

Joe Lockhart, a former press secretary for President Bill Clinton, is publicly advising former Vice President Joe Biden not to debate President Donald Trump.

Lockhart published an op-ed last week at CNN.com warning Biden that he should not debate Trump because the latter is prone to statement that fail the fact-checking test (original emphasis):
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However, Biden has been criticized in past debate performances for his misstatements and outright fabrications. In a debate with Alaska Governor Sarah Palin in 2008, Biden made several false claims, including the odd claim that the United States and France had โ€œkicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon.โ€ (Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed terrorist group with an associated political wing, is still very much there, and is a major part of Lebanonโ€™s government.)

In 2012, as he debated then-Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Biden again told a series of whoppers, including the false claim that Obamacare was not forcing religious institutions to provide contraceptive coverage. That very issue has been at the heart of lawsuits brought by Little Sisters of the Poor, a Catholic order that had been required to pay for contraception.

For example, the New York Timesโ€˜ Thomas Friedman wrote last month that Biden should not debate Trump unless he releases his tax returns and unless the debate has real-time fact-checking.

Such โ€œreal-timeโ€ fact-checking proved decisive in a 2012 debate between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney: CNN moderator Candy Crowley incorrectly declared that Obama was right about having declared that the Benghazi terror attack was, in fact, a terror attack. (She later acknowledged that she had been wrong.)

Clinton Aide Advises Joe Biden: 'Whatever You Do, Don't Debate Trump'
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I really want to see a debate but I highly doubt it will happen.
 
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โ€œ$192 million to $419 million has gone to more than 125 companies that Chinese entities own or invest in. Many of the loans were quite sizable; at least 32 Chinese companies received loans worth more than $1 million, with those totaling as much as $180 million.โ€
 
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Why choose between Burritos, Bears, and MAGA, when you can have all three?
 
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Biden's Coronavirus Response Plan
 
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