his thumb is working! i do like this coin toss thing. why stop with the debate side? let s have the coin determine who wins the election. yep. it would be so much less stressful than five months of campaigning. just flip the coin! heads, it s trump. tails, it s biden. if the coin bounces and rolls into the sewer, it s rfk jr. i say he ll come out all jacked up, right? all jacked up. yes, all jacked up on metamucil. trump says he wants them to both submit to a drug test before the debate. do you have any idea how long it takes to get a urine sample from men close to 80? i m 74 and the only time i i don t have to pee is when i m pee ing! the great marty short filling in for jimmy kimmel this week. not a bad substitute. we are two days away now from the first presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle. we will have the latest what we are learning about president biden s strategy for dealing with two different versions of donald trump. primary day in new york and colora
what s your overall reaction with how the guys did tonight? it s a fiery debate. i can t remember a debate that s been as fiery as this one at this level. i think republicans will watch this. they will say paul ryan won. really? they ll be happy with this performance. i think democrats who watched this will be fired up about joe biden s performance. i think he did what he needed to do tonight which is to calm some of the panic in the democratic base by having a fiery performance. but i also think this his smiling, the laughing, the grinning, if you look at the recent history of debates, whether it s al gore sighing, president george herbert walker bush looking at his watch, so many of these debates have come to be dominated by these personality quirks that manifested themselves over the course of the debate as opposed to the substance of the answers in the debate. it will be interest to see, i think democrats are going to love that. i think republicans will hate it. but the sma
your candidate always assume you are on camera and that they are looking at you even if the other guy is speaking. you know, it is funny, though, chris, the debate history, presidential debate history is replete with examples of where candidates don t pay attention to how they look and say things and are only worried about what they say. audiences tell us they take as much as 65% of the meaning from how candidates or how people say things. you have the famous george bush looking at his watch or al gore sighing in the debate. and this time around we have the president who seems to be disinterested, who seems to be irritated and not focused on the debate. chris: what do you tell a candidate to do when the other guy is speaking or even attacking? well, you know, certainly you can take notes, you can look out at the audience but every now and then you need to look at your opponent. it is kind of odd if a person
debate 101 that you would tell your candidate always assume you are on camera and that they are looking at you even if the other guy is speaking. you know, it is funny, though, chris, the debate history, presidential debate history is replete with examples of where candidates don t pay attention to how they look and say things and are only worried about what they say. audiences tell us they take as much as 65% of the meaning from how candidates or how people say things. you have the famous george bush looking at his watch or al gore sighing in the debate. and this time around we have the president who seems to be disinterested, who seems to be irritated and not focused on the debate. chris: what do you tell a candidate to do when the other guy is speaking or even attacking? well, you know, certainly you can take notes, you can look out at the audience but every now and then you need to look at your opponent. it is kind of odd if a person
debate 101 that you would tell your candidate always assume you are on camera and that they are looking at you even if the other guy is speaking. you know, it is funny, though, chris, the debate history, presidential debate history is replete with examples of where candidates don t pay attention to how they look and say things and are only worried about what they say. audiences tell us they take as much as 65% of the meaning from how candidates or how people say things. you have the famous george bush looking at his watch or al gore sighing in the debate. and this time around we have the president who seems to be disinterested, who seems to be irritated and not focused on the debate. chris: what do you tell a candidate to do when the other guy is speaking or even attacking? well, you know, certainly you can take notes, you can look out at the audience but every now and then you need to look at your opponent. it is kind of odd if a person