Biden Team Suggests ‘Loser’ Trump Might Skip Debate At Last Minute In CNN Interview

Biden-Harris 2024 communications director Michael Tyler dropped a provocative hint when he floated the possibility former President Donald Trump might not show up for the blockbuster CNN debate with President Joe Biden.

The day has arrived: President Biden and Trump are set to debate Thursday night in the earliest general election presidential matchup ever, with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash moderating.

But Trump has a spotty record of showing up for debates — he skipped every 2024 GOP primary debate and a bunch of 2016 ones, and refused to debate Biden a third time in 2020 after polls showed he lost the first two general election debates.

On Thursday’s edition of CNN News Central, Tyler cited that record to passive-aggressively cast doubt on Trump’s attendance in Atlanta:

KATE BOLDUAN: Where are you willing to set expectations for tonight?

MICHAEL TYLER: Listen, I think the Trump team is playing games that we’ve always seen them do it right. They like to use debates as entertainment process. They like to complain about debates. Sometimes they skip out on debates.

The president will be there tonight. We still assume that Donald Trump will be there as well.

But listen, the fact of the matter is they play these games because they know on the issues that matter. Most of the American people, Donald Trump is a loser, right?

When you talk about the things that the president said he wants to talk to Donald Trump about, the role that Donald Trump played in overturning Roe v Wade.

The American people fundamentally disagree with that. Donald Trump still thinks that the extreme state level abortion bans that he’s responsible for are playing out brilliantly.

When you talk about the type of economy that Donald Trump wants to return us to, where he’s out on the stump talking about more tax breaks for the ultra wealthy, more give out giveaways for corporations. The American people fundamentally disagree with that.

And of course, when you talk about the threat that Donald Trump poses to our democracy, most definitely seen on January 6th, but every day, again, out on the stump at his MAGA rallies, where he’s promising to pardon the insurrectionists of January 6th, the vast majority of American people again disagree with that.

So he doesn’t want to talk about the issues going into the debate. But the problem for him is he’s going to have to answer for all of those things on the debate stage tonight.

Watch above via CNN News Central.