Presidential election odds: Trump wants debate drug test

We’re less than 3 weeks away from the first U.S. Presidential election debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. After bombshell admissions from Trump, and pressure on Biden to skip the debates, we have a fresh set of odds from Bodog to make sense of it all.

The first debate, to be hosted by Fox News and moderated by Chris Wallace, is due to take place on September 29 in Cleveland. Trump and his team are looking forward to this as a chance to change the momentum of polls, and unlike 2016, he’s actually preparing for them a little bit this time.

But as Biden has not been known to be the best debater, and Trump is willing to get down and dirty, top Democratic lawmakers have suggested maybe Biden doesn’t need the debates. “I don’t think there should be any debates,” suggested House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She went on to note that Trump can’t be trusted to stick to the truth, so the whole exercise is meaningless.

Trump’s ability to make a sideshow out of anything has already turned up. Commenting on Biden’s ability to rebound in the Democratic primaries, Trump suggested he might have been taking something to enhance his performance. “We are going to call for a drug test because there’s no way – you can’t do that,” he said.