Harris plans to troll Trump over second debate during Alabama football game | CNN Politics
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When former President Donald Trump looks up from his seat in Bryant-Denny Stadium Saturday night during the Alabama-Georgia football game, he may see more than just 100,000 fans watching a high stakes college football showdown. That’s because Vice President Kamala Harris plans to troll her opponent over his refusal to debate her for a second time — from the skies.
  • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
    128·
    2 months ago

    To save some people a click

    The Harris campaign has arranged to have a small plane fly over Tuscaloosa during the game with a banner declaring, “Trump’s Punting on 2nd Debate.”

    […]

    The Harris campaign will also air a national ad during one of the most highly anticipated games of college football where she calls on the former president to meet her on the debate stage one more time.

    “Winners never back down from a challenge,” the ad’s narrator says. “Champions know it’s any time, any place. But losers, they whine and waffle and take their ball home.”

  • zephorah@lemm.ee
    59·
    2 months ago

    He’ll take the bait. That’s what Cluster B personality disorders do, especially NPD. She’s playing him. And it will work.

    I read a news article that billboards were placed around the debate venue criticizing trumps crowd sizes. So he went into that debate pre-baited.

    She has his playbook. We all do. It’s called the DSM-5-TR. Cluster B.

    • COASTER1921@lemmy.ml
      12·
      2 months ago

      We can only hope, but at this point I think it’s quite unlikely given how even Fox News Republicans recognize that the first didn’t go well.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    49·
    2 months ago

    Despite what he’s said publicly, Trump has privately flirted with the idea of meeting Harris on the debate stage one more time, sources tell CNN. Several of his advisers have argued that it could serve as a way to make his case to the American people that Harris has had more than four years in office to fulfill the campaign promises she’s making now, a message that some of Trump’s allies didn’t think he pushed hard enough when they debated earlier this month in Philadelphia. [emphasis mine]

    Because the VP is in charge and gets to decide policy, not a mostly ceremonial role.

    • crusa187@lemmy.ml
      7·
      2 months ago

      Point taken, but there is a whole lot of “it depends” to consider here. How ceremonial would you call Dick Cheney’s tenure as VP?

      To be fair, W and Biden are very different presidents. Still, Cheney proved a determined VP can achieve much of their agenda if they so desired.

      • DokPsy@lemmy.world
        19·
        2 months ago

        Cheney had the benefit of hardcore “murrica eagle caws freedum” sentiments where they could do little wrong

        Hell, the Dixie chicks got cancelled because they said “I’m not super fond of war, actually”

  • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
    49·
    2 months ago

    Lmao. Fucking brilliant. The weak fucker won’t be enjoying the game at all not like a looser like him ever could.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      58·
      2 months ago

      No, the best way to troll someone is to tell them what you’re going to do, make it clear they can’t do anything to stop you or change your mind, and then follow through.

      This is being done in an extremely intentional fashion.

      It’s also underlining the value of freedom of speech, which I am also sure is quite intentional.

    • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
      31·
      2 months ago

      The bigger point is media attention to bring his dodge of a 2nd debate back into memory. Telling it ahead of time gives you twice the coverage on it: news that you’re going to do it and coverage after the fact once you have done it

      Plus you’ll get more people filming and looking out for the plane too

    • pyre@lemmy.world
      12·
      2 months ago

      they’re not trying to scare him. they announce it because they know he won’t be able to not look at it.