The Biden Approach

[Jolly]

Heard this on Rush today and it makes sense...

Biden is getting older and showing his age. When he gets tired, he makes more mistakes. That's why the campaign limits his appearances and tries to keep most of them in the morning or in the afternoon.

The campaign has been doing intense debate prep, trying to have Biden memorize a few bullet points on major issues, particularly those areas that they know the questions will be asked. Biden will try not to debate Trump as much as possible, preferring instead to stick to bigger themes with less specifics.

All they have to do is animate him enough for the debates and keep him from going deer-in-the-headlights in the middle of them.

[Copper]

They might do better to keep him awake in the evening.

The debate will be in prime time and they probably won't allow naps.

[taiwan_girl]

@Jolly said in The Biden Approach:

Heard this on Rush today and it makes sense...

Biden is getting older and showing his age. When he gets tired, he makes more mistakes. That's why the campaign limits his appearances and tries to keep most of them in the morning or in the afternoon.

The campaign has been doing intense debate prep, trying to have Biden memorize a few bullet points on major issues, particularly those areas that they know the questions will be asked. Biden will try not to debate Trump as much as possible, preferring instead to stick to bigger themes with less specifics.

All they have to do is animate him enough for the debates and keep him from going deer-in-the-headlights in the middle of them.

I agree with what you said Jolly.

But I also think that the term "debate" is not really true. In the ones I have listen to or hear about, the candidates are asked a question, and their response usually has nothing to do with the question, but somehow gets back to a point they can talk about and memorized.

Questioner: Candidate X, what do you think of the going civil war in Country A and how should the US respond to this?

Candidate X: That is a great question. The US is a great country and if I am elected, I will do everything I can to improve the lives of people. Let me repeat some statistics that I memorized that have nothing to do with the question, but I need to point out to the public.

Response by Candidate Y: Questioner, thank you for bringing up this topic. I cant believe that Candidate X just said what he did. HIs policies will not improve the lives of people. I am going to repeat some statistics that I memorized that also have nothing to do with the question or his response, but make me look good and may or may not be true, but nobody will be able to do any follow up on them, so not a big deal.