One of my firmly held beliefs heading into the 2024 election was that debates are terrible ways to decide who should be president and are largely irrelevant.
Heh heh...yeah. Not irrelevant, I guess.
Tomorrow's debate seems like it really should be a Big Deal. The June debate, it should be remembered, was not great for either candidate. Trump was off-putting and weird, and he's gotten less focused since the assassination attempt. That was obscured by Biden's difficulty speaking, but the "dial groups" who turn a knob in a positive or negative direction really didn't like Trump either.
If he comes out and is the low-energy, word salad guy we've seen for two months now, if he's unusually (for him) racist and misogynistic towards Harris, this is really the moment for those (unbelievably) still wavering voters in the middle.
If Trump comes out and steps on his own dick, is an abattoir of the English language, is his cruelest, crudest self, then maybe Harris gets a lead she won't relinquish and that even the Times/Sienna poll can measure, and then I will have to admit that debates maybe do matter.
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