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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThat debate is going to be more impactfull than people think.
I heard reported that an estimated 70 percent of Americans will watch it. If true , this is a great opportunity.
For the past decades debates have morphed into a game of showmanship and in particular the last 15 or so with an emphasis on producing one liners and zingers suitable fie cable news or social media.
In this context, serious policy discussions take second stage. This is rendered worse when you also have a live studio audience further incentivising the debaters to perform for it rather than discuss issues.
With this format, one studio, two debaters with mics being cut off in between , the candidate with substantial issues to discuss and policies to present will be advantaged.
Trump is going to get destroyed and America will see how incompetent he is in contrast of president Biden who will dominate the debate like he did at the state of the union.
Tom of Temecula
(1,632 posts)Donald s being forced to deal with actual issues. Not a good place for him.
drray23
(7,897 posts)He was baiting Biden at rallies saying that Joe would not debate him because he is senile. When Biden said, sure let's do it and proposed that debate Trump could not back down.
Underestimating president Biden and trying to convince voters that he is senile is going to backfire big time.
tazkcmo
(7,419 posts)First, non-MAGAts who only watch Faux and have been told ad nauseum about his advanced mental deterioration will see the exact opposite. President Biden will be sharp, lucid and intelligent providing a stark contrast between the two candidates. Secondly, as the debate goes on, they will slowly come to the realization that they have been lied to. At the same time, they'll see the blithering idiot is exactly what they've been told President Biden is. Their Faux built reality will crumble and, hopefully, enough will be angry enough for being mislead and vote for a Democrat as a way of lashing out.
The true MAGAts will scream fake news, fix, TCF was drugged by dirty liberals, etc.