Donald Trump has agreed to debate Joe Biden twice.\u00a0 Once in July on CNN and once in September on ABC.\u00a0 Why would he agree to go on those networks where every moderator they will select will run the debate as blatantly against Trump as they possibly can?\u00a0 They\u2019ll shamelessly tilt the questions for Biden and against Trump.\u00a0 They\u2019ll cut out his microphone whenever it might save Biden from an embarrassing moment and they\u2019ll end by declaring that their in-studio polls show that Joe Biden won handily and Donald Trump is Hitler.<\/p>\n
Now all of this is true.\u00a0 And Donald Trump knows all these things.\u00a0 And yet he accepted the debates immediately.\u00a0 I\u2019ll assume that he believes that he has more to gain by these debates than lose.\u00a0 But is that true?\u00a0 I was thinking about what kinds of things the moderator could direct against Trump and score points against him.\u00a0 Obviously, they\u2019ll concentrate on January 6th<\/sup> and abortion.\u00a0 But they might also throw in some COVID questions.\u00a0 After all, many on the Right are fairly angry at Trump for letting Fauci and his minions make our lives hell even before Biden got into office.\u00a0 Reminding people of that could be a way to hurt Trump.<\/p>\n Someone in the media suggested that Trump hasn\u2019t completely agreed to all the conditions of the interviews and that he might still refuse at the last minute.\u00a0 Maybe that\u2019s true and could explain why he has no qualms about being set up by the news channels.\u00a0 But refusing after the fact would represent an embarrassing retreat.\u00a0 People might think he\u2019s afraid to debate Biden.<\/p>\n Two possibilities for accepting seem to me the most likely.\u00a0 The first is that he\u2019s worried about his chances in the race and hopes for some kind of lucky break during the debate that would increase his chances of winning the election.\u00a0 Although Trump has led almost throughout the election period there are still several swing states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin that are very close.\u00a0 And Trump needs at least one of these states to win.\u00a0 Maybe he thinks that these three states are among the ones that will be strongly influenced by a good debate performance.\u00a0 Because of how much Trump has at stake in the criminal cases against him, winning the presidency is almost a life and death situation for him.\u00a0 Maybe the extra chance to impress these voters seems extremely important to Trump for this reason.<\/p>\n A second reason why he may be so anxious to debate Biden is that he is convinced that he can utterly humiliate him on the debate stage and this will serve as the knockout punch for Biden\u2019s candidacy.\u00a0 I think this may be the more likely reason.<\/p>\n Now it remains to be seen how all this turns out.\u00a0 After all this is a very dynamic scenario.\u00a0 Let\u2019s start out just by looking at Joe Biden\u2019s health.\u00a0 Based on how these things are handled by the Biden camp, Dopey Joe will be doped to the gills with some kind of cognitive booster; caffeine, amphetamines, Ritalin, whatever.\u00a0 Based on no information at all, my guess is Joe stroking out must be at least a reasonably high possibility.\u00a0 And even if he doesn\u2019t keel over there\u2019s no guarantee that the stuff coming out of his mouth won\u2019t be in the, \u201ccannibals ate my Uncle Bosey\u201d level of daffiness.\u00a0 If either of those two scenarios play out, I\u2019d call it a win for Trump.<\/p>\n But the opposite scenario can also occur.\u00a0 Biden could just stand there and spin lie after lie with absolute insouciance.\u00a0 This would match up to what happened back in the 2020 debates.\u00a0 The moderators took Biden\u2019s side and his lies ended as the debate\u2019s points against Trump in the press.<\/p>\n But things have changed quite a bit since 2020.\u00a0 Regardless if the moderators throw softballs at Biden, I assume Trump will go off script and attack Biden on all the various failures of his administration; inflation, immigration, crime and war.\u00a0 And Trump is one of the most vindictive guys around.\u00a0 With a little luck he\u2019ll sting him enough so that Biden will take off on some self-justifying lie that will amaze even the moderators in its stupidity and obvious unlikeliness.\u00a0 Maybe that\u2019s Trump\u2019s biggest hope in all this. That he can wind up Biden enough to make him act like a nut on stage.<\/p>\n So, I\u2019ll be watching in July.\u00a0 Should be interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Donald Trump has agreed to debate Joe Biden twice.\u00a0 Once in July on CNN and once in September on ABC.\u00a0 Why would he agree to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3344,61,3519,16],"class_list":["post-28877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-2024-elections","tag-debate","tag-failed-biden-presidency","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"\n