Former President Donald Trump dodges assassins and bullets, while Vice President Kamala Harris dodges dinners hosted by Catholic priests. 

The Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner is arguably one of the country’s highlights of presidential campaigns. Now in its 79th year, the charity dinner marks a jovial time during an otherwise tense election season. It’s a night when both presidential candidates exchange political attacks and criticisms for jokes and self-deprecating humor. It started in 1960 with then-candidates Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy. Trump has attended the dinner twice and is going a third time. Harris’s decision to skip the dinner speaks volumes and looks cowardly.