billion with a b. we ve got this honore got this. we don t force in america thursday, july 4 x 70s dirt on cnn hi, everyone. you re in the cnn newsroom. i m omar jimenez in washington. we are just five days away, people from the first presidential debate of 2024. and today, we re seeing a pretty stark difference between incumbent president joe biden and his republican challenger, former president donald trump, as the two men prepare for this high-stakes face off, while biden is holding intense, meaningful, a closed group of advisors at camp david trump is skipping the tradition no route for now and is instead hitting the campaign trail. here is just a few hours ago at an event and washington rallying his supporters for the big showdown with biden nobody is going to be watching the debate on thursday night, right nobody. will anybody be watching cnn s steve contorno, we ll be watching him in person soon live in philadelphia where trump is expected to hold a campaign rally
i say they all go in with different goals. people don t realize how hard prep is, kevin our talking before we came, out it is grueling and no one enjoys, it but it is part of the most important thing that they do, especially now, to your point, about cobwebs. except for ron desantis have been debated last year in the context of his reelection pence has not done it since 2020, i don t think kristi is done in seven years, haley in eight years and some of never done it in a multi candidate field. as someone who is moderated a debate with multi fuel on it, it s hard to manage that dynamic on the stage. imagine showing up, not preparing to be the moderator. something i would not do, by the way. kevin, the goal for a lot of the candidates is to make a moment on that stage. it is hard to do it, but the whole thing seems like it might
really have to work and get up to power their. there will be all these other candidates on the debate stage, they might lose by not being able to take it to trump and show voters that they can. yeah, first, we are 48 hours away. i m not so sure that he is not going to be there. you ve all people he s not beyond playing a stand to be the center retention. he also doesn t prepare, so it s not as if he needs to do something that he hasn t been doing along the way. i disagree with kevin a little bit, i actually think he s making a mistake and he is going to regret it because, to some extent, what the others want to do and the republican establishment at large is trying to show people what a party without donald trump looks like. if i were him, i m not sure that i would allow that visual. obviously, if it is a food fight on wednesday night, that no one looks good. but you know, what some might look better than others.
don t think kristi is done in seven years, haley in eight years and some of never done it in a multi candidate field. as someone who is moderated a debate with multi fuel on it, it s hard to manage that dynamic on the stage. imagine showing up, not preparing to be the moderator. something i would not do, by the way. kevin, the goal for a lot of the candidates is to make a moment on that stage. it is hard to do it, but the whole thing seems like it might just become very vanilla. is it hard for these candidates to stand out? it s hard if you don t have a strategy. i think that is one of the things, we probably agree on, if you re sitting and preparing for, this you re telling a candidate hey, we are going to pick a fight with candidate acts on immigration. we re going to pick a fight
he s not beyond playing a stand to be the center retention. he also doesn t prepare, so it s not as if he needs to do something that he hasn t been doing along the way. i disagree with kevin a little bit, i actually think he s making a mistake and he is going to regret it because, to some extent, what the others want to do and the republican establishment at large is trying to show people what a party without donald trump looks like. if i were him, i m not sure that i would allow that visual. obviously, if it is a food fight on wednesday night, that no one looks good. but you know, what some might look better than others. i say they all go in with different goals. people don t realize how hard prep is, kevin our talking before we came, out it is grueling and no one enjoys, it but it is part of the most important thing that they do, especially now, to your point, about cobwebs. except for ron desantis have been debated last year in the context of his reelection pence has not done it s