Shameless

Hillary Clinton is trying to pressure Bernie Sanders to debate her in New Hampshire this week.

“I sure hope — we’re in Bernie Sanders’ backyard here in New Hampshire — I sure hope he intends to show up in his neighboring state,” Clinton told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday afternoon. “Let the people of New Hampshire see us both on the debate stage.”

  Politico

First of all, the debate was only tenatively agreed to by the DNC and MSNBC over the weekend. I don't doubt for a second Bernie will be there if it gets solidified.  And, secondly, Clinton was the one who lobbied for fewer debates when the original schedule was created.  The only people likely to buy this ploy are people who were going to vote for her come Hell or high water anyway.

The Democratic National Committee and MSNBC announced this past weekend a tentative agreement for the Thursday debate, which would begin at 9 p.m. in Durham and be moderated by Chuck Todd and Rachel Maddow.

Rachel Maddow? Does Hillary know who Rachel Maddow is?

Sanders tops Clinton 56 percent to 38 percent [in New Hampshire], according to a RealClearPolitics average of state polls. [...] The debate would come just days ahead of the state’s first-in-the-nation primary, giving Clinton an additional opportunity to sway voters before next Tuesday.

Only if Bernie comes on stage with his fly open.

“This is really hard to follow because when we said we would do the debate they came back with conditions,” Clinton said of Sanders’ camp. “We met the conditions. Then they said they want different conditions, and we’ve tried to be very accommodating, but, you know, we have agreed to everything that they have asked us to do.”

Yeah, yeah. Hang it Hill.

Everything except agree to a debate in Brooklyn ahead of New York’s primary, which Clinton maintained won't happen.

No, she can't risk that.

After the New Hampshire Union Leader announced that it had agreed to partner with MSNBC to hold the debate this Thursday, the Sanders campaign called on Clinton to agree to three additional debates on top of that one — for a total of four — to be set in March, April, and May, with none on a Friday, Saturday, or holiday weekend, to guarantee more viewers.

  WaPo

New York?

[A]ccording to a source close to the discussions, there’s still no deal: the hitch is not over whether to have these debates, but over how and when to schedule them.

As the Clinton campaign tries to find times when Bernie couldn't appear.

And so, the fact that Clinton is now pressuring Sanders on national television to attend this debate (all indications are that he will, if and when the details of all four debates are agreed upon) is a remarkable turn of events.

Remarkable in the sense that it's pure political crap.

There are only two remaining debates, according to the current schedule, which seems untenable, now that we’ve got a real race of sorts.

And the Queen is only going to look bad if Sanders goes on national TV and says she will only agree to the debate in New Hampshire.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.