Simple…
Donald Trump IS trailing in the race to keep his job….
Donald Trump also has also himself as his own worst enemy….
He has been unable to close on Biden in the polls coming up on a month from Election Day …
Joe Biden is doing fine just being ole’ Joe….
The coming debate will have no audience ….
Biden who has a Lot of experience doing these things has reportedly been studying and getting better …
Biden will make flubs….
But Trump IS gonna show he’s in a alternate reality …
Trump and his ego is gonna wing it….
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….
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While they don’t expect Biden, who is prone to verbal blunders and often stumbles over his words, to maintain a strong posture for the entire 90-minute televised debate, they acknowledge that it will take only a couple of stinging soundbites and memorable zingers to surpass the bar Trump has set for him.
“The danger with [Trump’s] sustained attack against Biden’s cognitive abilities is that he’s now created a situation for himself where he has no excuse to fall back on if Biden lands a few punches and he struggles to return blows,” said a Republican close to the Trump campaign.
Note….
Debate don’t usually do much for voters…
But a bad debate for Trump is just gonna keep him solidly in the loser’s lane….
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