NOBODY in the media wants to write and point out that a ex-President of the United State stood for 90 minutes in a debate and , as expected?
Dodged substance mostly.and lied as usual…
He has been and always will be about style….
In fact, he actually went to HIS points, NOT answering the moderators questions often….
For Biden?
Optics….
Just President Biden being old?
And reciting answers that few people heard or seemed to care about focused on Biden HIMSELF…
You would think Trump wasn’t on stage for the debate checking the media after action piece’s….
“Well, let me just go back to what he said about the police, how close the police are to him,” Trump said in reference to President Biden — before talking about how many police groups had endorsed him; how the Trump administration passed an economic development package called opportunity zones; how his administration passed a criminal justice reform package; how “millions of people are pouring into our country”; and how Biden was losing support from Black and Hispanic voters, among other topics.
So Bash tried again — 82 seconds later — to learn what Trump would do, if anything, to reduce the effects of climate change if he won the presidency in 2024.
“So, I want absolutely immaculate clean water and I want absolutely clean air, and we had it. We had H2O. We had the best numbers ever,” he said falsely, quickly wrapping up his answer.
The debate moved on.
Much of the focus of Thursday’s debate focused on Biden’s confusing and meandering answers, and the ensuing panic his weak performance caused among Democratic officeholders, donors and operatives. The consensus view among most Republicans and Democrats was that Trump was clearly the winner of the first 2024 debate.
As for Trump, however, he repeatedly evaded topics he was not interested in speaking about, following the advice of advisers who encouraged him to move the conversation to friendlier ground such as immigration and the economy. It highlighted the challenge of interviewing Trump — who often says whatever he likes no matter the question and bulldozes interviewers with long answers, including myriad topic changes and falsehoods….
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“It’s so crazy we aren’t talking about Trump’s insane responses he gave or his inability to answer the questions he was asked because we are all talking about Biden’s poor performance,” said Matthews, who has been an outspoken Trump critic since leaving the administration. “If any other Democrat was up onstage, the contrast would have been very clear.”
Biden also evaded questions at times. At one point, he inexplicably answered a question about abortion by talking about immigration — switching from a topic where he is favored over Trump to one where he fares poorly.
Still, Trump dodged far more often. The first evasion of the night was related to the attack by Trump supporters on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election results after making false claims the election was stolen. CNN moderator Jake Tapper asked Trump what he would say to voters who believed he abdicated his responsibility on Jan. 6 by encouraging people to go to the Capitol and by not publicly denouncing the riots for hours after they started….
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The conversation again moved to the Jan. 6 attack and whether Trump would accept the results of the 2024 election if Biden won. Trump instead talked about how Putin’s invasion of Ukraine would have never started if he had won reelection.
Tapper asked again.
“If it’s a fair and legal and good election — absolutely,” he said, before reverting to false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. “I would have much rather accepted these but the fraud and everything else was ridiculous that if you want, we’ll have a news conference on it in a week or we’ll have another one of these on, in a week.”…
Maybe put up a candidate that can be remotely effective in rebutting Trump instead of someone who got absolutely steamrolled?
For years, Republicans who had doubts or concerns about Trump were told to shut up, ignore reality, take one for the team, the other side is worse, don’t be disloyal.
Democrats are behaving the same way now. Reality should not be ignored.