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re: How can Biden debate Trump?

Posted on 5/16/24 at 1:50 pm to
Posted by TBoy
Kalamazoo
Member since Dec 2007
23895 posts
Posted on 5/16/24 at 1:50 pm to
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Biden can’t form a sentence on his own and he struggles to read from a teleprompter.

Have you been listening to Trump lately? "Word salad" doesn't do it justice.

This may be the most unintelligible debate in the history of debates, going back to ancient Greece.
Posted by lsuguy84
CO
Member since Feb 2009
20121 posts
Posted on 5/16/24 at 1:52 pm to
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Have you been listening to Trump lately?


Yes, he sounds fine. You probably still have a dick in your ears.
Posted by TN Tygah
Member since Nov 2023
2149 posts
Posted on 5/16/24 at 1:53 pm to
Honestly a lot of people are underestimating him. I’m not sure what happened, but his interview with Howard Stern the other day was depressingly coherent. I don’t know what’s going on with him and a teleprompter and why he can’t get through it. It’s not just a stutter, it’s being old, cognitively not there, and frail.

But on Stern he gave a really good interview (speaking wise, not content wise), even though he was totally full of shite for most of it, talking about how important the middle class was and stuff.
Posted by Pettifogger
Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
Member since Feb 2012
79387 posts
Posted on 5/16/24 at 1:55 pm to
I don't think people should get their hopes up. I think Trump is more coherent and competent than Biden by a good bit, but that was the case in 2020 and he failed to score anything resembling a definitive win.

Biden is worse now, Trump probably at least a little worse now.

Biden has been a professional politician for most of his life, if his faculties are decent that day he'll handle the situation fine (unfortunately). The risk is him losing his train of thought a bunch of times or just staring off into space while someone is asking him a question, which is a possibility. Moreover, people have already baked in the concept of Biden as your mostly friendly semi-senile grandfather, so him coming off like that isn't going to move the needle.

For it to meaningfully matter I think "moderates" need to walk away going "ok having this guy as President is just too embarrassing" (which can also be negated by Trump's antics).
Posted by saintsfan1977
West Monroe, from Cajun country
Member since Jun 2010
7811 posts
Posted on 5/16/24 at 3:05 pm to
They will use a double.
This post was edited on 5/16/24 at 3:06 pm
Posted by 14&Counting
Eugene, OR
Member since Jul 2012
37744 posts
Posted on 5/16/24 at 3:12 pm to
This board continually underestimates Biden. When it comes to big events like this or the SOTU he finds a way to rise to the occasion. He is an embarrassment the rest of the time but he will be on his game. Trump came off angry and unhinged in the last debates and Biden played him masterfully. You can argue Trump lost the electorate in the first debate. Biden has spent over 50 years in politics. Everything he says is a lie but he is a master at selling it. He may old and senile but he still has it in him on the biggest stages. The biggest difference this time is Biden’s four year track record of failure and his corruption is unassailable. Trump needs to focus on that and not lose it like he did last time.
Posted by GrizzlyAlloy
Member since Aug 2020
1689 posts
Posted on 5/16/24 at 3:54 pm to
Trump needs to show up late so that the drugs they pump the potato with wear off mid debate.
Posted by TN Tygah
Member since Nov 2023
2149 posts
Posted on 5/16/24 at 8:06 pm to
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This board continually underestimates Biden. When it comes to big events like this or the SOTU he finds a way to rise to the occasion.


I don’t say this with any happiness whatsoever, but he absolutely killed the Howard Stern interview. To the point where you would have no idea he was senile if you hadn’t seen him gaffe the last few years. I didn’t know where that guy came from. He will step it up, somehow. I don’t think he’ll win but he isn’t going to get destroyed like most people think.

I think the Stern interview made the Dems pretty confident.
Posted by This GUN for HIRE
Member since May 2022
3015 posts
Posted on 5/16/24 at 8:33 pm to
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