{"id":181535,"date":"2016-05-26T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T03:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/26\/this-is-a-very-smart-move\/"},"modified":"2016-05-26T22:21:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T03:21:00","slug":"this-is-a-very-smart-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/26\/this-is-a-very-smart-move\/","title":{"rendered":"This is a Very Smart Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump was on Jimmy Kimmel, and in response a question from the late night host, Trump said that he would be willing to debate Bernie Sanders, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2016-election\/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-agree-debate-n580641\">Sanders promptly picked up the gauntlet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Jimmy Kimmel Live!&#8221; Trump was asked if he would consider holding a debate with Sanders. Trump agreed to the idea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If he paid a sum toward charity I would love to do that,&#8221; said the business mogul, noting that a Sanders vs. Trump debate &#8220;would have such high ratings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a campaign stop in North Dakota, Trump said Sanderrs would need to raise $10 million for charity in order for the debate to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders quickly responded with a tweet reading, &#8220;Game On. I look forward to debating Donald Trump in California before the June 7th primary.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t expect Trump to follow through, but there is no way that this is a losing proposition for Sanders.<\/p>\n<p>If Trump backs out, he looks weak.<\/p>\n<p>If Sanders does poorly in the debate, Clinton is not harmed, and her campaign gets a preview of Trump&#8217;s debate performance.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders gets another chance to sell his movement and his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>If Bernie trounces Trump, he gives a big boost to his chances in California.<\/p>\n<p>There are no downsides for Sanders, and only one downside for Clinton, here, and all likely outcomes are bad for the &#8220;Short Fingered Vulgarian.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well played.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump was on Jimmy Kimmel, and in response a question from the late night host, Trump said that he would be willing to debate Bernie Sanders, and Sanders promptly picked up the gauntlet: On ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Jimmy Kimmel Live!&#8221; Trump was asked if he would consider holding a debate with Sanders. Trump agreed to the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1107,963,978,977,1147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bernie-sanders","category-donald-trump","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-tactics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}