1st Presidential Debate Megathread

[Sir Mohamed]

I think Trump's biggest difficulty is going to be defending his own record. He's great at going on the attack, but that's not really his purpose here. He needs to defend his Presidential record, which he rarely does with any truth or evidence. If Biden nails him down for doing an awful and chaotic job these past four years (hopefully mentioning how 80% of Trump's top staff has left and since said he was an awful leader), Trump doesn't really have a chance.

I'm not sure that changes all that much. Over half of the country knows that he's a liar and has failed as prez. His die hard supporters can't be convinced anyway. Trump will just distract and deflect from his record and outright lie about it. He'll claim the US is doing great with Covid, a vaccine to be released "very soon" and that he himself "built the greatest economy in the history of the world". The question for Biden is whether he constantly interrupts and corrects or whether he just let's it stand and concentrate on getting his own message out.

My advice would be to call out the most blatant lies with phrases like "It's not true", "You have no idea", "Once again, you're over your head", "Don't talk stuff you're unaware of", but to try to aviod being a non-stop fact checker on Trump. Because then the entire discussion is just about Trump and his dishonesty. It's important Biden presents his vision for America in simple terms and appear compassionate while doing so.

[Sir Mohamed]

I just saw about two-thirds of it.

I would propose for the next two debates that the candidates receive electro shocks every time they break a debate rule - with consecutively increasing voltage.

* Electro shocks are easy, that I can tell you. Sleepy Joe couldn't handle them. Just couldn't handle them. He's weak, the likes of which no candidate has ever been. We know it, they know it, everbody knows it. Trump can take a lot of electro shocks. So many electro shocks, the number goes through the roof. And these were beautiful electro shocks. We're going to have the most beautiful electro shocks in a very long time. Probably the best ever. When Trump took them, the doctors were surprised. Everybody was surprised. The doctors came to my office, and by the way, very respected doctors, extremely respected doctors, you know, they said, they have never seen a person taking that many electro shocks. It was almost like water. They said, this is the strongest person ever to take electro shocks. Tremendous health. Just tremendous genses, if you want to know the truth. You saw these highly respected doctors coming out with this very powerful statement. So we can have electro shocks in a debate. But people saying Sleepy Joe can't take it. Maybe we should be looking into that. Who knows? *