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First Presidential Debate Megapost!
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this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2024
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We should assume Biden will do well in the debate and get as many eye balls watching it as possible. If you know people who might otherwise not watch the debate, consider sending them the how to watch link. Biden needs the debate win for his campaign where as Trump would prefer if everyone tuned out. It would be a missed opportunity if no one watches.
I'm sure people will be watching to see if Biden pulls a Mitch McConnell freeze or if Trump devolves into his mumble-core slurred speech.
Where it gets interesting is if none of that happens.
I still expect Trump to be yelling even if his microphone is muted, we'll probably hear him through the other micrpphones.
Yeah, I think there will be people watching for that. I think they both will be trying to avoid that though so I doubt that we'll see much of that. Also, the muted mics were a good call. Even if Trump does start shouting Biden should have no problem talking over him.
There might be a lot of people who aren't paying attention still. So I would rather not be quiet. We won't know for sure until the election, but it still seems reasonable that we are sleep walking into fascism. =(
I will say, this debate has the bigger potential to hurt Biden than Trump.
If Biden has a freeze moment, it will be clear he can't continue.
Trump could literally drop trou and shit on the stage and his audience not only wouldn't care, they'd cheer him for shitting on CNN.
This debate has the potential to hurt or help Biden. Biden needs a win. People need to be energized about his campaign, because he needs high voter turn out to win the election. A loss for Biden, a neutral performance, or no one watching, in this debate all functionally do the same thing. Any of those cases is a missed opportunity. Biden skating by in this debate isn't going to cut it.
Trump succeeds when other people fail, so Biden's performance will matter more than whatever Trump does. Trump has a cult. Since there won't be a live audience, he could put a cap in Jake Tapper and Dana Bash and his supporters would cheer. So this debate isn't really for the MAGA crowd. It's for the rest of us.
I'm going to be incredibly frustrated if the headlines for the coverage after the debate is 'no one watched', because that can only help Trump.
It gets really interested if both happen simultaneously and we as a nation have to all just sit in awkward silence for 3 minutes wondering how we got here.