Donald Trump has a conundrum. Despite some hemming and hawing, he made the right call in debating President Joe Biden and won the battle of “who looks oldest.” He certainly can’t reprise that against Vice President Kamala Harris at the ABC News debate on Sept. 10. And the optics of “prosecutor vs. felon” are brutal for Trump. Unlike Biden, Harris won’t bizarrely let that go.
Trump also doesn’t want to talk about abortion, which Harris will hit hard. He will surely rail against immigration, but Harris will just as surely point out that it was he himself who sabotaged the bipartisan border deal—legislation that she has promised to sign as president.
So what to do? His answer is to flirt with pulling out of the debate.
