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[Nevilledog]

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Soledad O'Brien
@soledadobrien
This person covers politics for the New York Times.

Jonathan Martin
@jmartNYT
Closing Message

Question of the day for Joe Biden

Are you in hiding most of this week because you are only willing to answer milkshake-related questions?
8:06 AM · Oct 19, 2020

Saw in another tweet that this "question" was pulled verbatim from trump campaign email.

[lagomorph777]

1. Let Mr. Martin share a cubicle with MAGA Haberman

in the basement.

[LonePirate]

2. What? Journalists from TNYT serving as mouthpieces for Republicans? I'm shocked!!!

Any respectable news organization would have fired Martin and Haberman years ago.

[idziak4ever1234]

3. Is Biden not campaigning this week?

[PTWB]

4. The rumor was he'd called a "super lid" until after the debate

I’m not sure what the truth is behind that.

[Drunken Irishman]

5. I hope Biden doesn't spend all week off the trail.

That's not a good strategy with this being the second to last week to really campaign. I can see taking Wednesday off to prep but Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday + likely all of Thursday? That scares me.

[idziak4ever1234]

7. Good Lord. This scares me too. He won't even be able to defend himself versus the lie machine...

that is in full force. Kamala is in Orlando and Jacksonville. I know the Obamas are out there too, but the candidate needs to be seen and heard from, too.

[True Blue American]

6. Biden is practicing for the debate.

Trump does not have to, he is so good at it!

[Drunken Irishman]

8. This is insane to me. I've never heard of a candidate needing a whole week to prepare.

I'm not going to lie, this seems like an awful plan that very well could backfire. We're in the final stretch of the campaign. People are voting RIGHT NOW. After this week, there will only be one full week left of campaigning. How can they even remotely justify taking the candidate off the trail for essentially four full days this close to the election? This is nightmarishly stupid.

I could see it if the debate was tomorrow. But it's Thursday. They're really going to take the candidate off the trail for likely four days to prepare for a debate? That's unheard of.

[True Blue American]

9. I did not say

Biden was taking a week.

[PTWB]

10. His point still stands my friend.

Joe’s campaign called a super lid mid morning on Sunday saying he will be doing debate prep and we won’t see him until after the debate Thursday night.

No campaigning from Sunday morning until at best Friday morning???

I don’t get it either. I trust his campaign staff wouldn’t make that decision unless they had to. They’re incredibly capable and Joe has fought incredibly well.

[marlakay]

12. Makes no sense since they already know what

Trump will say. They just need a good answer when he bugs him about Hunter and court stacking.

I know he has the answers and it shouldn't take days. This makes it look like Joe is needing time off to rest.

[True Blue American]

13. I think Biden and his

Team know what they are doing.

Trump is running all over trying to use the same things he did in 2016, each day he gets worse.

Joe has many surrogates out there appearing all over. Do you see anyone campaigning for Trump except Pence And Trump kids.

[Drunken Irishman]

11. His campaign has, though.

He has no campaign events planned from now until the debate. That seems disastrous this close to the election. I've never seen anything like it before. A candidate going off the stump for almost an entire week this close to the election. Wow.