While debates do not affect ultimate election results, it is clear that Joe's debate preppers screwed up badly. [View all]

[Deek1935]

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Yes, the buck stops with the president. Yes, he should have tossed his prep during the debate and pivoted to attacking Trump much more. Yes, he seemed to be dealing with a cold and sheer physical fatigue after a long day of other activities and work.
And most importantly we have to remember that debates have ZERO predictive value on the ultimate election results. NONE AT ALL.

However, it obviously still would have been better to have had a stronger debate performance, and lessons still should be learned. Much of the blame has to go Biden's debate preparers who were chiefly Anita Dunn, her husband Bob Bauer, and Ron Klain.

They should have dramatically reduced the amount of details Biden was supposed to have regurgitated and kept it to a smaller number of key points repeatedly hammering on his major accomplishments. Part of Joe's problem was trying to spit out all that detail. It was overload, and it showed.

His advisers were obviously trying to have Joe spend WAY too much time on the minutiae of his record rather than doing what they SHOULD have told him to do: BRUTALLY ATTACK TRUMP AT EVERY TURN. They wanted Joe to look like "the adult in the room" but the problem was we non-MAGA Americans wanted to see an energetic STRONG FIGHTER saving America from the scourge of Trump and showing he was ready to charge head on into four more years like a damn pit bull. They thought Trump would just sink himself with his crazy talk. Which in some ways he did with all the lies, but they gave him way too much oxygen. Joe needed to be MUCH MORE AGGRESSIVE. Because THAT is how you deal with a sick psycho like Trump. YOU GET ON OFFENSE AND STAY ON OFFENSE! PERIOD!