The debate gave him the largest audience of the campaign and provided him the first real opportunity to press his case against Joe Biden and shake up the race.
Right out of the gate, Trump pursued an aggressive strategy of interrupting Biden, speaking over moderator Chris Wallace, and launching a flurry of attacks.
Instead of explaining this to voters, Trump interrupted Biden with statements such as, "Joe, you agree with Bernie Sanders, who's far Left, on the manifesto we call it, that gives you socialized medicine." But what sort of voter who is learning about Biden's healthcare position knows what Trump was referring to?
Trump then said Biden got lucky in the primaries because "If Pocahontas would have left two days earlier, you would have lost every primary." What does that sort of punditry, and potshot at the increasingly irrelevant Elizabeth Warren, do to advance the ball for Trump? And why was it so important to make this comment that it was worth interrupting Biden for?
Biden failed to land his planned blows on Trump on tax returns, the coronavirus, or the Atlantic story claiming based on anonymous sources that Trump referred to service members as "Suckers" and "Losers."
After months of attacks claiming Biden doesn't even know that he's alive, Biden exceeded that low standard by showing he could stand and debate for 90 minutes, remaining more or less composed in the face of Trump's relentless attacks.
If there are two more debates, something that has to be seen as uncertain after Tuesday's debacle, Trump is going to have to change his strategy to make focused and substantive attacks on Biden.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/debate-was-a-blown-opportunity-for-trump
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