The Memo: Warning signs flash for Trump on debates

[brooklynite]

The upcoming debates offer President Trump his best chance to shift momentum in an election campaign he appears to be losing — but some signs don’t augur well.

Past incumbent presidents have struggled, especially in their first debate, yet Team Trump has insisted the president does not need specific preparations for his clashes with Democratic opponent Joe Biden.

“He is preparing for debates by running the country as president,” campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh said on a recent call with reporters. “I don’t know that any actual debate prep has occurred to this point, and I don’t know of what plans are to begin that.”

That kind of attitude has spelled trouble for previous commanders in chief.

https://thehill.com/homenews/the-memo/516810-the-memo-warning-signs-flash-for-trump-on-debates

[OregonBlue]

1. He's just planning to shout and wave his arms and lie. Don't need to prep for that.

I suspect Johnson and Grassley will release their "findings" regarding Biden Ukraine corruption just before the debates so Trump can stand up there and scream about Biden corruption and lie.

[Thekaspervote]

2. Presidential Debates do little to shift voter preference. Internet searches brings dozens of hits

All with the same response

[Wounded Bear]

3. Unless they plan to use the pro sports model and pipe in crowd noise...

I don't see how Trump can win.

[Mike 03]

4. That is hands down the best possible scenario: Trump doesn't prepare.

"Let Trump be Trump." - Corey Lewandowski

[RAB910]

5. Does anyone believe anything coming from this White House?

This is just a setup to lower expectations for their criminal leader

[lagomorph777]

9. Come on, that's not even possible.

Expectations could not be any lower.

[Doremus]

22. Agreed. We let our guard down at our own peril. nt

[no_hypocrisy]

6. The Debates will be like the ABC Townhall:

Trump won’t answer the question asked and give his own talking points. And he’ll get away with it.

[brooklynite]

12. Why do you say he'll "get away with it"?

If he doesn't answer an important question, it'll be obvious to the viewer.

[TheBlackAdder]

7. Why does a pathological liar need to prepare, especially when they're not called out on their lies?

[lagomorph777]

8. If he's preparing to debate the same way he's running the country,

he's totally fucked.

[GemDigger]

10. Perfect. 2 things will be in focus, his stupidity and his cruelty. nt

[obamanut2012]

11. Sarah Palin is a lot smarter than Trump (all things being relative)

And she sucked as a debater, and that was with a whole lot of prep.

IF the debates are PROPERLY run, then Trump will make a fucking fool out of himself. If they aren't, he will still do badly. Only his base will laud his performance.

[NNadir]

18. Not only his base. He will congratulate himself profusely.

He'll do so if he drools on his own shoes.

[onetexan]

13. is the Con going to be using a teleprompter at the debate tonight?

[Bayard]

15. Whoo! You had me there for a second!

The first debate is on the 29th.

[onetexan]

20. Whoops my bad, Biden's townhall on CNN is tonight. Not sure why it registered in my head that it

was tonight. So Sorry
https://cnncreativemarketing.com/project/cnn-politics-tonight/

[Nevilledog]

14. ...

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. I'd like to see research on the effect debates have on the vote.

Kerry and Clinton won all their debates based on polls...

[Lock him up.]

21. ... and Clinton won with over 3 million votes over hair furoR.

But hey, it was "Rigged"

donny "hannibal" dRumpf wants to murder millions of us for vlad with his "heard" mentality n his proposed gutting of SS, Medicare n the ACA.

[NNadir]

17. The other problem is that he's a senile uneducated idiot.

[louis-t]

19. It's ok, he prepped with an Obama look-alike.

He screamed in his face and called him a loser. That's how he preps.

[0rganism]

23. doesn't care about the debates, doesn't care about the virus, doesn't care about his campaign

it's almost like he knows none of it matters to the outcome

[BlueWavePsych]

24. Looking forward to Biden baiting Drumpf during debates!

No matter how it prepares, Drumpf's narcissism will be its undoing.