Ringside Report Gives a Preview of the Second Presidential Debate Between Donald Trump & Joe Biden – Political News

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By James Gatto

With thirteen days to go before the general election and one day before the final Presidential debate there are still a small number of undecided voters. These voters may very well be the difference between winning and losing this election. With three major swing states and a total of around eight or nine which will be highly contested, the difference of just a few thousand votes in any one of those states could be huge.

With the new rules in place for the debate, Joe Biden will have two minutes of uninterrupted time (for opening statements only), in each of the six scheduled segments. The mics, however, will be left on during “open discussion” segments, with the moderator tasked with ensuring equal time to each candidate if one goes over their time, or speaks over the other. Those six opening statements are a great opportunity for Joe to put Trump in his rearview mirror, and during the “open discussion”, Joe Biden should stay away from any mudslinging and take the opportunity to speak to the nation about the important issues facing us right now, and what he plans to do about it.

A lot can be accomplished in six, two-minute segments. It’s important that Biden stays the course and focuses on his platform and his policies, particularly on the Covid issue, health care, and the economy. Even if the questions are not directly about those issues, he can segue by answering direct questions first and snaking his way around to his platform and policy. This is a favorite Trump tactic, by the way. He never answers questions, but instead uses his time to bloviate. The last thing Joe wants to do is go on the attack. He must stay out of the gutter. You can leave the attacking to the attacker in chief. Biden needs to stick to the issues. He’ll have two hours to stay on message. Those same two hours may prove to be disastrous for Trump, and I’m expecting him to implode.

Trump is sure to be evasive and not answer direct questions, and I’m pretty sure one of them will be about his Chinese bank accounts. I’m also reasonably sure whatever his answer it will be without substance. He’ll probably turn red, start sweating and ask “why aren’t you asking Biden about his son. Why are you attacking me? Why don’t you like me? No one likes me.” And, unless Trump gets a good talking to by his staff, and more important, if they can convince him that his strategy in the past is not working for him, he will continue with his vitriol.

I’m convinced that as much as he’d like to, he cannot control himself. He is purely reactionary and doesn’t think before he speaks. He thinks out loud, and in most cases, doesn’t understand the subject matter about which he speaks. He would do much better to keep quiet. But, he can’t. So, thinking out loud about things you know nothing about is a very bad combination for your image. We’ve seen it before when he was considering using bleach and light therapy, clearly knowing zero about the science behind it, and making a fool of himself, prompting the manufacturer to issue a warning to not drink disinfectant. There have been many similar moments. Why get in his way?

No one has to tell Joe Biden to be calm. Joe’s been at this for a very long time, and now is the time for him to use his experience to his advantage. Rest assured, Joe will be prepared. In my opinion, he has an easy task. He simply needs to let Trump destroy himself. Just stay out of his way and he’ll do much more damage to himself then Joe could ever do. If Trump is doing his best to stay on the straight and narrow, Joe simply needs to get him agitated and, in no time flat, Trump will be off the rails.

I’m actually surprised Trump agreed to the new rules. I was expecting him to do anything possible to squirm out of a debate with rules he has no choice, but to follow. Trump doesn’t like playing fair, but he put himself in a very difficult spot. If he hadn’t been so out of control in the first debate, he probably wouldn’t have put himself in this position, where special rules are necessary to keep him in line. But, for him to back out a second time would make it worse. So, he’s managed to put himself in a serious bind, where he is now stuck having to play by the rules. He doesn’t like rules. If, in the first debate, he could have toned it down just a little bit, and he wasn’t so far out of control, there probably wouldn’t have been such a strong outcry for any special rules. But he cannot control himself.

And that, for Joe, is the key to victory…

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