'Somebody's going to take advantage of it,' one strategist predicted.
"Somebody's going to take advantage of it," one strategist predicted.Biden-Trump debate offers rare chance for change in presidential race
"If you're looking at the calendar for the next five months, this is one of those moments. And somebody's going to take advantage of it," said Chip Saltsman, a GOP strategist who worked on former Vice President Mike Pence's now-suspended GOP presidential bid. "We've also never been a situation where there's so many questions about both candidates' core abilities. Is Biden too old? Is Trump too unstable?" he told ABC News. "These are existential questions that a lot of the people tuning in are going to be asking. And then, obviously, we've never had a debate this early in the calendar, so it is likely to set the tone for the rest of the campaign.
Biden has already attempted to do so with Trump, mixing that messaging with what he claims is his administration's economic progress. But strategists said a more forward-looking message on the economy and attacks on Trump's proposed tax cuts for wealthy Americans and corporations should be more front-and-center in Biden's campaign -- and that Thursday's debate gives him a chance to drive that message home.
Going hand-in-hand with that is the need to come off as presidential, Republicans said, in an acknowledgement of the character concerns that caused Trump to shed voters in 2020, particularly in the suburbs. Most Republican and Democratic strategists said the format benefits Biden by robbing Trump of the ability to overwhelm the president's answers with crosstalk and feed off the energy of an audience.
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