Biden was OK as long as he was speaking his rehearsed lines. He had a week holed up in his basement to rote learn them and no doubt his team were provided with the moderator questions a long time ago. But when he tried to talk off the cuff, especially when responding to Trump's interjections, he was a hot mess. Promising to close down the entire US oil industry was a brain fart of epic proportions.
Anyway what is said during debates matters way, way less than the optics. Biden's body language was terrible, the weird hand movements, the vacant looks, the dithering, honestly I felt kind of sorry for him.
The only part of the debate where he held his own was in discussing health care.
As for the laptop and the emails he needed to give a fulsome and and angry denial. Instead we got a wishy washy denial that's not really a denial;, relying on statements his media surrogates have given about Russian plots and the like. Trump gave him the opportunity to explain himself after Biden himself brought up the issue (who thought that was a good idea)? He failed to do so. The issue isn't going away and Trump has achieved what he wanted to with the MSM being forced to clue their normie audience in on what the fuck they were talking about.
Well before even early voting had started, most people had aleady made up their minds. That's a big hurdle for even an October Surprise and Biden shitting the bed in the last debate.
What good does that do? D's don't need positive enthusiam for Biden/Harris; TDS is an adequate substitute.
No matter how damaging this week has been to Dems, I cannot underestimate the potential stupidity of the masses.
The majority of voters aren't hard core Dems suffering TDS.
The Democrats have been focused on the coof to appeal to worried boomers and shifting the blame for the bad economy caused by the lockdowns onto Trump. The orange man bad and BLM stuff are to motivate the base, but they do fuck all to appeal to swing voters in purple states.
This will be a tight election, if the coof hadn't happened, or rather if the lockdowns hadn't happened, Trump would be coasting, but even so this is a 50/50 nation, landslides are likely a thing of the past for either party. Even in 2008 and 2012, when Obama was facing GOP candidates who didn't want to win, it was way closer than it should have been. As for opinion polls, even assuming that many are media push polls, the genuine ones are guesstimates at best. The days of every household having a landline telephone that someone can call up after dinner to get their views are long gone. For whatever reason modern polling under samples the right. This is a global phenomena and isn't confined to the US. See Brexit, the UK election, the Australian election etc etc.
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FBI has had the laptop for over a year already and didn't say anything. Remember when Trump got impeached for congratulating the new President of the Ukraine?
