trump has already lost the debate

[Walt]

Can I make an "observation"? Biden prepares for things. Anyone with a brain knows what questions people are going to ask of a candidate. Biden has been in 11 debates this year, and hundreds of debates over the last 40 years. He has won almost all of them by preparing. trump is unable to mentally prepare.

Trump falls into the trap he set for Biden
Politico
GabOrr and Nancy Cook
,Politico•September 23, 2020
Donald Trump will face Joe Biden within days for the first of three presidential debates, and some of the president’s supporters are already bracing for a humiliating loss.

White House allies, Republican donors and some of Trump’s closest advisers worry that a recent, frenzied push by his top lieutenants to portray Biden as a seasoned debater — with the goal of raising expectations for the Democratic presidential nominee — is too late and too disingenuous to have an impact when the two meet on the debate stage next Tuesday.

They worry Trump has set a trap for himself by incessantly attacking Biden’s age and mental acumen. It’s a tactic the president has maintained even as his campaign publicly insists the former vice president is fully capable of a satisfactory performance. Unlike the president, who has spuriously claimed Biden is “probably” on performance-enhancing drugs, Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh attributed Biden’s “quite good” performance in past debates to the Democrat’s ability “to turn it on when the cameras come” after years of experience in politics.

“Eight years as vice president, three decades in the Senate, two debates as vice president and he just came through about a dozen debates in the Democratic primaries where he vanquished two dozen opponents — that’s the Joe Biden we’re expecting,” Murtaugh said.

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It’s this type of expectation-setting that some of the president’s allies believe he and his campaign should have engaged in all along, an approach they’re now frustrated to see deployed so close to the Sept. 29 debate in Cleveland. The Trump campaign spent the bulk of this summer questioning whether “Sleepy Joe” is fit for office and accusing the Biden campaign of trying to circumvent the traditional debates to avoid a potentially embarrassing situation for their candidate.

“This idea of Biden not knowing how to debate is ridiculous. The more that expectations are lowered for him the worse,” said former White House press secretary Sean Spicer.

“A lot of folks are looking for a reason to declare him the victor and now they’ll be able to use Trump’s words as a way to justify their verdict that Biden won,” added Spicer, who believes Biden “will land a punch or two” against Trump but doubts either candidate’s performance will affect the race all that much.

Ed Rollins, a veteran GOP strategist who currently runs a pro-Trump super PAC, said the Trump campaign has “so diminished” Biden that he is virtually guaranteed to be perceived as the winner once he and Trump emerge from their first debate.

“Biden has clearly shown he can function, the bar is low and the expectations are so low, all he has to do is exceed those expectations,” Rollins said.

Several Trump allies pointed to Biden’s sharp debate earlier this year against Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, his last remaining opponent in the Democratic primary and a skilled sparring partner, as the clearest indication that he is capable of going toe-to-toe against the president. Biden scored slightly higher than Sanders in a poll following their March debate, where the former vice president delivered a strong case against Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and a practical rebuke of Sanders’ so-called political revolution.

“We have problems we have to solve now. What’s a revolution going to do? Disrupt everything in the meantime?” asked Biden in one memorable line.

Trump falls into the trap he set for Biden

Some on Trump’s team are bracing for a humiliating loss at next week's debate — after Trump lowered expectations for Biden by mocking his acumen for months.

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[bongsaway]

I am very much looking forward to the first debate. Biden has facts on his side, trump has bluster and lies on his. It's going to be interesting watching trump trying to dodge the questions. He can't brag about the economy, our foreign policy is in the can with other allies, covid is killing nearly a thousand people a day and the gop is pushing through their nominee when they wouldn't even give obama's pick a hearing. What does trump have to convince people they should vote for him. The unrest in america is a good bit his fault, it wasn't happening under obama.

 

[Aunt Antifa]

Can I make an "observation"? Biden prepares for things. Anyone with a brain knows what questions people are going to ask of a candidate. Biden has been in 11 debates this year, and hundreds of debates over the last 40 years. He has won almost all of them by preparing. trump is unable to mentally prepare.

Debates don’t really matter as much as we like to think they do. And this one really won’t matter. But: the dumbest political thing to do is insist your opponent is a moron and you are amazing. Why in the world would you create a scenario in which *all* of hte pressure is on you? Biden was mediocre in the primary debates for the most part. But he was fine, and that’s all folks really care about.

 

[ludin]

Biden can't answer simple questions from his own voters without going off on them. what in the world makes you think that biden can debate trump?

as for biden having facts? biden has lied god knows how many times in just the past week. 200m americans dead from covid?
and you say he has facts? what facts are those the ones he makes up in his head? if that is what you are suggesting then sure ok he has "facts".
then again most leftist make up their own facts anyway which is why they hate actual facts.

 

[Casper]

Can I make an "observation"? Biden prepares for things. Anyone with a brain knows what questions people are going to ask of a candidate. Biden has been in 11 debates this year, and hundreds of debates over the last 40 years. He has won almost all of them by preparing. trump is unable to mentally prepare.

If Biden makes trump look like the fool trump is and trump loses ground in the polls you can count on trump finding a way to cancel the remaining debates. Watch.

 

[CaughtInThe]

Donald Trump makes decisions by the seat of his pants. It's why tens of thousands of extra Republicans are rotting in their graves as we speak.

But he's a liar and he talks tough. That's what they want.

 

[bongsaway]

Biden can't answer simple questions from his own voters without going off on them. what in the world makes you think that biden can debate trump?

as for biden having facts? biden has lied god knows how many times in just the past week. 200m americans dead from covid?
and you say he has facts? what facts are those the ones he makes up in his head? if that is what you are suggesting then sure ok he has "facts".
then again most leftist make up their own facts anyway which is why they hate actual facts.

So biden misspoke and said 200 million. I know how much this upsets you but don't worry the world will continue to spin.

 

[Moderate Right]

Can I make an "observation"? Biden prepares for things. Anyone with a brain knows what questions people are going to ask of a candidate. Biden has been in 11 debates this year, and hundreds of debates over the last 40 years. He has won almost all of them by preparing. trump is unable to mentally prepare.

My crystal ball is in for repairs right now but my observation is that if Biden prepares for things so much and then has so many gaffs despite all of that preparing, then that's not good. Trump, on the other hand, is a loose cannon. This should be interesting, a true reality show. Who has more experience at reality shows?