Here’s The Real Reason Why Trump Says He Won’t Do Another Debate

Eric J Scholl
3 min readSep 14, 2024

Money.

That’s it.

It’s also the real reason President Biden was forced to drop out of the presidential race after the previous debate: his funding dried up. That’s it.

The powers behind the hundreds of millions maybe even billion plus of dollars it takes to run a presidential campaign these days made it known they weren’t paying for Biden anymore, so Democrats had to replace him if they wanted to get any more money.

After his poor debate performance, Trump’s just one step away from that. Another debate is just too much of a risk. Unless his numbers drop off so far so fast in the next couple weeks that his funding gets threatened anyway. But then why would Vice President Harris debate him at that point?

Watch the money. Don’t think it’s about anything else. Because it’s not. It’s both what’ll keep Trump in it, (if he can keep pace after his disaster debate), and what’ll keep the momentum going for Harris (if she can keep it going in the face of forceful and so far somewhat fruitful attempts to dam it up by the Trump campaign), between now and election day.

Also notice Trump spending precious time in California and New York these days, because that’s where the money is. And he’s got to convince the…

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Eric J Scholl

Peabody award winning journalist. Streaming media pioneer. Played @ CBGB back in the day. Editor-In-Chief "The Chaos Report" www.thechaosreport.com