Two things are clear after watching last night’s debate: Donald Trump should not be the next American president – and nor should Joe Biden.
For months now, the Biden team’s theory of victory has been that this election will ultimately come down to a choice. Despite the ominous polls that show Biden trailing Trump in the battleground states that will decide this election, and the increasingly vocal concerns that the 81-year-old president is too old to serve another term, they have clung fast to the conviction that once voters are fully reminded who his opponent is, they will come home. As Biden himself is fond of saying, “Don’t compare me to the Almighty, compare me to the alternative.”
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