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Former Vice President Joe Biden's strategy for the final debate on Thursday evening: Get out of the way.
Biden and his team believe President Trump has done damage to his own campaign in recent weeks, a sentiment they see as being reflected in national and battleground state polls that show the Democrat with a lead.
Their plan in the final presidential debate is to do nothing more than to underline the contrast between Biden and Trump, and to avoid any mistakes.
"Why would we change anything?" one Biden ally close to the campaign said, when asked if Biden would try to do anything differently from the last debate in September. "We're going to be prepared to have the kitchen sink thrown at us but the VP needs to continue to do what he's been doing."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bidens-debate-strategy-is-to-let-trump-be-trump/ar-BB1agE7l?li=BBnb7Kz
TwilightZone
(25,342 posts)The calls for Biden to "fight back", etc., are misguided. Trump is imploding. Let him.
VarryOn
(2,343 posts)So his unhingeness will be even more off the scale.
Biden will pickup from where he left it the last time. Race over (if not already!) in about 24 hours!
In 2016, I was so insecure at this point in the race. This one has been a real pleasure.
lame54
(35,141 posts)He's going to try and make Joe lose it
VarryOn
(2,343 posts)Would be OK with me.
shelshaw
(521 posts)Biden bids $1
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)When you enemy is making a mistake, dont interrupt him.
crimycarny
(1,351 posts)Probably not but its a possibility. Hes a bad judge of his own performance so if he thinks hes scoring points by bullying hell hang in there.
I hope the moderator doesnt fall into the trap of overcompensating by being tougher on Biden in an effort to prove shes not delivering softballs to Biden and being overly harsh on Trump (as Trump and his campaign keeps whining about before the debate even starts.). Classic manipulation to whine about a moderators alleged bias ahead of time to get them to tilt harder the other way versus being the same to both sides.
captain queeg
(10,036 posts)I was really expecting trump to bail on this last debate but looks like itll happen. Maybe Ill have to watch. Im sure trump is getting some reasonable advice about how to act, which hell completely ignore (because hes smarter than anyone else). Is it going to be a town hall format?