president rains in the file. democrats hoping the current president hits and where it hurts. plus, trump says he has picked a vpn continues to ramble on the issue of naming them. fake videos claim to show a wobbly biden. there is a true problem for the president. let s do it. we are just days from the first presidential debate. though it may appear like a rerun, this is far from a repeat. thursdays standoff between president joe biden and donald trump comes with huge stakes for them and for all of us. for the better part of the year polling has shown the race is essentially tied. depending on the poll that you are looking at, trump has held a narrow advantage. as the washington post highlights he has held a slightly larger advantage in some of these key battleground states, which certainly has democrats nervous. as for the rest of us, this will be the first time we see trump and biden in the same room since they last debated in 2020. of course, since then you would recall w
wants in on the action. what is he doing today? we were surprised last night he sort of bit his tongue. no commentary on twitter during the debate. relatively restrained today. i don t think we expect that to happen tonight. he and his aides are focused on biden. they see him as the front-runner and that s who the general election will be. they re encouraged, their point of view, how wobbly biden has been at times, including the first debate. he certainly will be watching with keen interest. i suspect we will hear from him not just on twitter but a rally in cincinnati. not just aa rebuttal from the two nights the democrats controlled the news but also the first rally since the send her back chants at the north carolina event. i think there will be a lot of scrutinies what happens there. does he insight that rhetoric? does the crowd start on its own? does he stamp it down or bask in
tough love tonight. he s telegraphing basically as you said to anyone that will listen that he wants to talk about his criminal record up against joe biden s. i asked booker about that last week and whether or not he would be willing and able to say that on the debate stage. he says yes. so i think booker is far more likely to try to essentially create that moment at biden s detriment. i also think the other person d that might sneak up on is julian castro. he has some skills with the knife, so to speak. he took on beto o rouke and made his moment. but then it got overshadowed by the second debate. he too criticized biden on the issue of criminal justice reform and has proven he s not at all shy to take someone on to prove his point. i would be watching from that end of the stage to be the folks who go after biden most