Donald Trump on Monday confirmed that he’s considering sitting out the traditional presidential debates in 2020—but not because he’s afraid of going head-to-head with the eventual Democratic nominee. In fact, he purports to have no qualms whatsoever about his potential opponent. “I look very much forward to debating whoever the lucky person is who stumbles across the finish line in the little watched Do Nothing Democrat Debates,” he tweeted Monday. “My record is so good on the Economy and all else, including debating, that perhaps I would consider more than 3 debates.”

Last week, news broke that the president was floating the idea of sitting out the debates, suggesting—as he did on Twitter—that the Commission on Presidential Debates is hopelessly biased against him. As evidence, he reportedly cited his microphone struggles in one of his disastrous showdowns with Hillary Clinton. (After that debate, the commission released a statement that there were “issues regarding Donald Trump’s audio that affected the sound level in the debate hall.” It did not, in fact, apologize for giving him a faulty mic.)

As the New York Times noted, it also happens that Clinton received a bump in the polls following each debate—a testament to her performance as compared to Trump’s. The microphone fracas, then, reads like a thinly-veiled attempt by the president to forgo a situation in which he could lose standing among voters. So far, his aides don’t seem thrilled at the prospect.

Meanwhile, some observers have wondered aloud whether the entire situation could work to Trump’s advantage. “He’ll bluff that he won’t do any with the goal of only having to do one,” Phillipe Reines, a longtime Clinton adviser, predicted last week. Trump’s dangling of “more than three” debates seems to fall along those lines. He’ll set expectations low, then be cheered by his base for appeasing the establishment if he does agree to a debate, or be cheered by his base for bucking tradition if he doesn’t.

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