Trump campaign adviser: 'Biden is actually a very good debater'

[left-of-center2012]

Jason Miller, an adviser to President Trump’s reelection campaign, said in an interview published Friday evening that Joe Biden is “actually a very good debater,” appearing to run counter to the GOP’s confidence that the former vice president would hand Trump an embarrassing gaffe that could spark a negative news cycle.

“Joe Biden is actually a very good debater. He doesn’t have as many gaffes as he does in his everyday interviews,” Miller told The Washington Post. “I would make the argument that Joe Biden would even be the favorite in the debates since he’s been doing them for 47 years.”

The first debate between Trump and Biden will take place on Sept. 29.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/511156-trump-campaign-adviser-biden-is-actually-a-very-good-debater

[DemocratSinceBirth]

1. Joe Biden is likable. That goes a long way in a debate.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Trying to inoculate the MAGAts for when His Lardship gets his clock cleaned?

[greenjar_01]

3. So tiresome

Yes. We get it. You have to lower expectations for your candidate and increase expectations for the other candidate.

Then, of course, The Hill, which is a Trump campaign organ, pumps out the statement as a headline.

It's the insult to everybody's intelligence that's offensive.

[left-of-center2012]

4. "The Hill, which is a Trump campaign organ"

Nope

[left-of-center2012]

6. What does 'Media Bias/Fact Check' say about 'The Hill'?

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[Srkdqltr]

5. Yes. He speaks in whole sentences and coherent paragraphs.

[Bayard]

8. And every sentence does not contain the words,

"I", or "Me".

[left-of-center2012]

7. Biden doesn't have that 'cocaine sniff' Trump has

sniff sniff

[Tom Rinaldo]

9. Standard operating procedure

It would be political malpractice for anyone on the Trump team, before the debates, to claim that Biden is a poor debater.

[Jim__]

10. Right. Lower expectations. Then claim to have wildly exceeded them. - n/t

[brush]

11. Biden ran circles around Ryan in the 2012 VP debates and actually...

show President Obama how it was done as it was staged after the first presidential debate in which Romney had pulled off a gish gallop against President Obama, a flummoxing technique that left many aghast at the effectiveness of it's sheer, unrelenting and staccato volume of words which monopolized all the space in the room.

Joe's performance showed how one had to take command of the debate by showing the ridiculousness of one's opponents arguments—thus the "please proceed, governor" phrase.

Biden was also extremely effective against the hackneyed, anti-democratic establishment arguments presented by Bernie Sanders in their debate during the Dem primaries this presidential cycle.

Joe will do fine, if any debates actually happened. And it's guaranteed he won't stand for trump invading his space on the podium.

[FM123]

12. Biden did a great job on his last debate with Bernie. Trump should be scared.

It was hard for him to be a standout with a gazillion people on stage at the beginning of the primaries, but one on one I thought he was terrific.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. Balloon head is trying to lower Trump expectations I guess

[Midnight Writer]

14. So now they are building expectations for Sleepy Joe who they claim can't complete a sentence?