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

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10. In the long history of presidential elections debates have had NO ultimate impact on the outccome. ZERO.

Show me ONE instance in the long history of presidential elections where a debate had ONE tiny bit of impact on the
the ultimate outcome. You can not.

If they truly mattered we would have had President Mondale, President Kerry, President Romney, and President Hillary Clinton.

They do not ultimately matter. Especially when the debate is over four months before the vote. None.

Presidential elections are decided on the overall performance of the incumbent's leadership in office. And Biden's, overall, is very good.

To change candidates now would be galactically STUPID and the worst SELF-INFLICTED wound imaginable in presidential politics. We would lose the predictive advantages of incumbency and party unity, and it would hand the election to Trump. It is delusional to imagine anything otherwise given how presidential elections really work as proven by history.