Sam Bregman will keep babbling about his eagerness to debate Deb Haaland.

Lincoln and Douglas this is not. Bregman needs to be on the same stage as Haaland to improve his chances of winning the Democratic gubernatorial primary. Haaland can let him sweat. The race is hers to lose.

Besides, modern political gabfests aren’t debates. Bregman uses the term “debate” because it sounds better than saying he wants a televised appearance alongside Haaland so he can deliver rehearsed lines promoting himself and knocking her.

This has been standard practice for decades. Voters of a certain age will remember the vice presidential debate between Sens. J. Danforth Quayle of Indiana and Lloyd Bentsen of Texas. Quayle, 41 at the time, mentioned himself in the same sentence as the late, forever-young Pre

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