SCW NEWSWATCH: "Will Joe Biden Duck the Debates? There are growing calls to shield the former Veep from having to perform" - Wall Street Journal 8.4.20

"... Biden ... lead[s] ... in the polls and has been known to fumble his words, so now TV debates are apparently passé. The Commission on Presidential Debates has scheduled three ... for ... Biden and ... Trump .... But it’s becoming a theme in certain quarters—namely, the New York Times — that ... Biden should skip out, or that the face-offs should be canceled .... What a terrible year to make this argument. The pandemic has put the usual political rallies on hold ... [and conventions will be largely online. Press aides will shape ... news coverage ... picking friendly interviewers. ... Biden [hypothetically] would take office at ... 78 ... the oldest President in history .... Trump is all but calling him senile ... Biden’s verbal stumbles and memory lapses were obvious in ... Democratic primaries. ... Biden mistakenly referred to Britain’s leader as Margaret Thatcher, who resigned in 1990 ... [H]e boasted of working on the Paris climate deal with Deng Xiaoping, who died in 1997 .... [I]f ... [Biden's] polling lead holds, liberal pressure not to debate will grow. ..."

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