The thing to do with Tapper and Bash, if they start debating with Trump in some form, is for Trump to ask Who am I debating here, him (jabbing a finger at Biden then the moderators) or you? Fine! I'll debate the bunch of you! Why don't you just go stand over by Biden and help him out, he needs it!
I don't agree. He did that with Chris Wallace when he jumped in on team Biden in 2020 - and it didn't serve Trump well.
That would pretty much end the debate in Trump's favor. Anyone but the TDS crowd would see it as a rigged debate at that point. The talking heads in the MSM would spend the next six weeks trying to dissemble over why Tapper and Bash weren't really debating with Trump.
It didn't have that effect in 2020. Trump directly called out Wallace.