During the debate, Trump spoke to Joe Biden and moderator Chris Wallace more than he spoke to the American people and that’s not going to cut it.
A friend — a professional, smart suburban female voter with good judgment who I’ve known for years — texted me during the first presidential debate that she was on three different text chains with all women, each a different background, party. There were ages 35-45. Every single one was disgusted by Trump’s behavior.There is no way to score the debate the way we’ve scored them for decades. We showed up for a baseball game and watched the food fight from"Animal House" break out.
But Trump didn’t let the strategy breathe. His unrelenting interruptions never allowed Biden to dig those holes. Biden couldn’t do much of anything, in fact, as Trump was on him — at least for the first hour — like a hungry wolverine, scratching and clawing at the Democrat’s every syllable. Sure, there will be Trump supporters who loved the performance. If you hate politicians and the media, you love it when Trump punches them collectively in the mouth. But Trump squandered what initially had the makings of a good debate by interrupting so much and making it so personal, according to a veteran political debate coach I consulted afterward.
But overall, I was looking for moments that would speak to the people that Trump must recapture to win, chiefly, center-right suburban women and senior citizens, who don’t seem to hate Biden near as much as they hated Hillary Clinton. And I just didn’t find them. Trump spoke to Biden and moderator Chris Wallace more than he spoke to the American people and that’s not going to cut it.
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