Nancy Pelosi Says Biden Shouldn’t Debate Trump: ‘I Wouldn’t Legitimize a Conversation With Him’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested that former Vice President Joe Biden shouldn’t bother debating President Donald Trump before the 2020 presidential election.

“I don’t think there should be any debates,” Pelosi told reporters on Thursday. “I do not think the President of the United States has comported himself in a way that anybody associates with truth, evidence, data, and facts. I wouldn’t legitimize a conversation with him.”

In recent months, Trump and his allies frequently claimed that Biden is either too afraid or too mentally frail to meet the president on the debate stage. The former vice president has repeatedly said, though, that he’s eager to go up against the president.

Pelosi acknowledged the Biden campaign’s position on the debates, and went on to slam Trump over his conduct from his 2016 showdowns with Hillary Clinton. The speaker predicted that Trump “will probably act in a way that is beneath the dignity of the presidency. He does that every day.”

“I think he will also belittle what the debates are supposed to be about, and they are not to be about skulduggery on the part of somebody who has no respect for the office he holds, much less the Democratic process,” Pelosi said. “I don’t think [Biden] should dignify that conversation with Donald Trump.”

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