Is anyone on the fence going to be swayed by a debate anyway? I think the people who are really not sure about which way to vote at this point likely can’t be reasoned out of wasting their vote on some third party.
To anyone reading this that is considering voting 3rd party, my advice is to vote dem and then put as much political pressure on the democrats as possible the other 364 days of the year. The alternative, while maybe morally pure, is a lot less workable and doesn’t benefit others.
We’re gonna have some 3rd party candidate votes, we always do, and most of those people are already dug in for their candidate; likely nothing to be done about that. I know I was in my Ron Paul, Bernie Sanders days. I voted for Nader once or twice and couldn’t have my mind changed.
At this point, many of the fence sitters will likely not vote at all, debate or not. It’s very easy for people to be meh about the whole thing. It doesn’t directly impact them in the short term directly, at least in their minds. And I get it. Life can be hard, and many people have more pressing concerns than who the president is at the moment.
Nearly everyone else who will vote is already solidly Trump or Harris, and maybe a few Kennedy folks.
Everybody also said this about the Biden/Trump debate, and that’s ultimately what made Biden bow out. Personally, I’m a bit apprehensive about how Harris would do against Trump: she didn’t fare very well in the democratic primaries, and she hasn’t had a lot of practice since.
I’m not on the fence, but some who are might want to see how Harris holds up to a strong authority figure (Trump isn’t the only asshole on the global political stage, remember)
