Joe Biden’s age is written on his resting face, the one that looks at the camera like it’s your fault.
It’s the look of his 81 years and he doesn’t look very good on a debate stage: more ready for bed than for a second term.
It matters in Atlanta.
Biden he enters the television showdown derided by his opponents as mentally unfit for the job.
It’s a perception ingrained in the public consciousness, fueled by high-profile episodes of alleged “brain freeze,” despite the White House’s steadfast rejection of fragility.
A CBS/YouGov poll earlier this month found that only about a third of voters thought Biden had the cognitive ability to serve as president, compared to half of those surveyed. Triumph.
How Biden performs in the hostile environment of a live television debate without notes could be an occasion to confirm or confound the age concern.
You need to avoid reinforcing the notion of weakness.
If this occasion is crucial in the presidential race, that is where the turning point lies.
Millions will watch the debate from beginning to end, but millions will not: they will consume it through social media and base their judgments accordingly.
Ninety minutes of television will largely be reduced to viral “moments,” cut and pasted as campaign touchstones to drive fundraising and political ads.
In the modern era, they are the moments that can define a political campaign and the difference between success and failure: a television contest, and much more, could be lost in a momentary span.
Biden does ‘shadow boxing’ before main event
The president and his team have been throwing shade through mock debates at their Camp David retreat. Biden’s personal lawyer, Bob Bauer, has been playing Trump’s role.
Pretending in the hills of Maryland will contrast starkly with the real thing in Atlanta.
Presidential advisors who micromanage their man and his entourage will only throw him into an uncontrolled and unpredictable situation.
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They will settle for “State of the Union” Biden. Addressing the American political establishment in March, his performance was appropriately presidential.
As Democrats breathed a sigh of relief, Trump growled in resentment and accused Biden of being “totally high” on cocaine.
He does it again, suggesting that the president will receive a “shot in the butt” as a chemical booster before the television debate; In doing so, he is laying the groundwork for a strong performance by Biden, after having previously ruled him out.
Trump’s least structured preparations
Donald Trump’s preparations have been less structured than Biden’s. His advisors have told him to focus on the issues on which he gets the best results with voters: inflation, immigration and crime, among them.
How did Biden beat Trump in the 2020 debates?
The two men have not been in the same room together since they last debated before the 2020 election.
Four years later, conditions are different. There will be no audience in the studio to respond and reassure the punchline, only a penetrating silence that will sharpen the scrutiny of both the moderators and others.
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Trump supporters suggest he will benefit from the absence of a hearing because a calming effect will curb his belligerent instincts.
His detractors respond that Trump’s performance relies on interaction with the crowd and that he will struggle in a sterile environment that requires full discussion.
We’ll find out when the two old enemies enter the stage, presumably with a handshake, although that hasn’t been confirmed.
If the choreography allows it, it will be the coldest greeting before a long-awaited night.
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