By CollinRugg
While speaking to reporters on Thursday morning, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi called for the cancellation of the presidential debates between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden.
“I don’t think there should be any debates," the Speaker said.
"I wouldn't legitimize a conversation with him, nor a debate in terms of the presidency of the United States," Pelosi added. "Now I know that the Biden campaign thinks in a different way about this."
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Fox News reports:
Pelosi is the latest high-profile Democrat to offer a major piece of advice to the former vice president. Earlier this week, former 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton said Biden shouldn't concede the race under any circumstances. Pelosi made the comment at her weekly news conference, unprompted, and her advice was not in response to a question about debates. She cited Trump's "disgraceful" performance at the 2016 debate when he was "stalking" Clinton as one reason Biden should break tradition and sit out the debates.
"So I think that he'll probably act in a way that is beneath the dignity of the presidency; he does that every day," Pelosi said. "But I think it will also belittle what the debates are supposed to be about. And they're not to be about skullduggery on the part of somebody who has no respect for the office he holds, much less the democratic process.
"Why else would he try to undermine the elections in the manner in which he is doing? So, if Joe Biden asked me what I thought about it, [I'd say] I don't think that he should dignify that conversation with Donald Trump."
Despite the Speaker's comments, the Biden campaign plans to go through with the debates however their decision could change considering Biden would most likely be the underdog in the debates.
“Joe Biden looks forward to facing Donald Trump in a multi-debate series that the American people have come to expect from their leaders; we hope that President Trump would not break that tradition or make excuses for a refusal to participate,” Biden Campaign Manager Jen O'Malley Dillon said in June.
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Author: CollinRugg
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