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Joe Biden's disastrous debate blamed on bad preparation, exhaustion

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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    35% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -4% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Then Biden himself, in an April interview with shock jock Howard Stern, delivered a decision on debating Trump that was a surprise to some advisers.
50% : Networks and moderators inclined to challenge Trump.
40% : Trump, 78, repeated a series of well-worn, glaring falsehoods during the 90-minute debate on Thursday, including claims that he actually won the 2020 election.
37% : Trump was convicted of falsifying documents by a jury in New York on May 31, while Biden held back-to-back visits in Europe.To the surprise of some Biden aides, his stubbornly low poll numbers began to inch up nationally in the weeks that followed.
29% : And I believe [senior aide] Anita Dunn... put him in a venue that was conducive for Trump and not for him," said John Morgan, a Florida-based attorney and major Biden fundraiser.
28% : Trump could just complain about the present administration - and Biden would need the facts and some zingers at his fingertips.
19% : They expected Trump would be far more disciplined and prepared than he had been in 2020 and believed that they would need to counter a string of rapid-fire lies.
15% : Trump repeatedly violated the rules of what would be a chaotic first debate in 2020, showing up despite having tested positive for COVID-19, and talking over Biden relentlessly.
5% : "NEW DEBATE FORUMEarlier this year, some Biden aides discussed whether he should debate Trump at all, arguing that it could give Trump a broad public platform that would disadvantage Biden.

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