If two people agree to a debate, but one of them participates in bad faith, and spends the majority of the time talking over the other, sidestepping virtually every point their counterpart makes, blatantly lies, employs personal insults and frequently airs irrelevant grievances, is it still considered a debate?
Sadly, only the left half of the voters care anything about their candidate acting with any degree of decency. The other half don’t deplore their bad-faith candidate’s rudeness and dishonesty, they revel in it.