Column: Trump and Biden both think they can land a knockout in the debates. They can't both be right

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

85% : He's a wonderful man," Trump said.
47% : Trump made one potentially significant policy statement during that 87-minute speech: He said he favors an across-the-board tax cut -- "middle class, upper class, lower class, business class."
44% : In short, an election for the Age of Trump.
39% : He doesn't offer details of what he would do in a second term beyond broad promises to undo Biden's policies, encourage oil companies to increase production ("drill, baby, drill!") and deport millions of undocumented migrants.
32% : Nine years after he began his first presidential campaign, Trump seems more bored than ever by policy details.
25% : In recent weeks, he's leavened the attacks with humor, calling Trump "Sleepy Don" -- a reference to reports that the former president has dozed off in a Manhattan courtroom during trial.
21% : Biden believes he can win if voters stop dwelling on their discontent with the economy and focus on the threat Trump poses to democracy and abortion rights.
10% : And Biden has sharpened his attacks on Trump, warning that his election would "drag us backwards into ... chaos, division and darkness.
9% : Trump claims that Biden is mentally unfit, says, "He can't put two sentences together," and seems to expect that the president will crumble under pressure on the debate stage.

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