WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) - Donald Trump's struggling campaign is increasingly pinning his re-election on the claim that Joe Biden is mentally unfit for the job - and is looking toward the presidential debates as an opportunity to goad the 78-year-old Democratic nominee into a gaffe that will sink his rising poll numbers.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump's struggling campaign is increasingly pinning his re-election on the claim that Joe Biden is mentally unfit for the job - and is looking toward the presidential debates as an opportunity to goad the 78-year-old Democratic nominee into a gaffe that will sink his rising poll numbers.
"An earlier and longer debate schedule is necessary so Americans can see the clear difference between President Trump's vibrant leadership and Biden's confused meandering," campaign spokesman Tim Murtagh said. Before the coronavirus crashed the economy and threatened his re-election, Mr Trump took a take-it-or-leave-it approach to the debates - refusing to agree to the traditional format the commission has sponsored since 2000.
"It's the chance that the Trump campaign needs to make the race about Trump versus Biden," said Mr Brett O'Donnell, a Republican who has prepared Mr George W. Bush, Mr John McCain and Mr Mitt Romney for debates. White House counsellor Kellyanne Conway, who helped prepare Mr Trump for debates in 2016, said abortion was a key issue in 2016 and would be again in 2020.DEBATE PREP Leading the Biden debate team are Mr Michael Sheehan, who has helped coach Democratic presidential candidates since 1988, and Mr Ron Klain, the former Biden chief of staff and Ebola czar in the Obama White House."We'll see who's involved this time, because victory has a lot of fathers and mothers," she said.
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