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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