#smershtv scuttlebutt:
Tonight's debate was very, very early for a 1st POTUS debate. They aren't even the official nominees yet!
The Dems agreed to this early of a debate as a trial balloon to see how Biden would do. If it didn't go great, there's still theoretically time to find an alternative in the 45ish days until the convention.
The GOP nominates in about 3 weeks and all signs point to 🍊.
Will the Dems pull off a coup and nominate someone who can take on the bombasity?
I feel like a brunch time debate may have been a better idea.
Heck, slot it up against "Meet the Press"!
That "undecided" lady was 100% a Biden plant. 😆
So the gamble was:
Tell the public POTUS has a cold before the debate, to explain why he might be "off" and risk the expected mockery of excuses from the opps.
or
Take the chance of him powering through "his cold" during the debate and explaining to the press pool halfway through the debate that he seems "off" because he has a cold.
Where the hell's Aaron Sorkin when we need him!?
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(Is this payback for DJT going to the debate with COVID!?)
Gloria's son is taking VP Harris to task
Doesn't matter that Biden was more coherent and likely more correct on facts overall tonight.
Facts don't matter in a nation that once elected DJT.
Nixon won tonight
You fight fire with fire, not ice cream.
cheddar freaking biscuits!
Biden campaign officials 50 minutes into the debate told the press pool that he had a cold.
🤡 📺
CNN: The Boomers are losing the Zoomers
This debate was embarrassing for US in front of the other countries.
this CNN Aftershow sounds like an obituary
He just did bad in a debate, dudes and dudettes. He's not gone.
Optics matter.
Is it fair that Biden comes across to some as old, senile, etc?
Maybe. Maybe not.
Does the general public pay attention to how a candidate appears, sounds and generally comes across on television? Especially the 30% and growing amount of Americans that don't belong to one of the two major parties?
You bet your Tricky Dick rememberin’ badonkadonk we do!
A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production.
Too weird to live, and too rare to die.