Joe Biden's Debate Move Could Come Back to Haunt Him

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : "The second one, I was different, and I got great marks on the second one," Trump said.
58% : While I think that Trump can hold his own in a stiff, rule laden 'debate,' he is at his best when he is riffing and poking people.
47% : Ahead of Thursday's debate, Trump and his supporters have frequently pushed the unsubstantiated claims that Biden may be on "drugs" to help his performance and energy during the 90-minute debate.
45% : "This way Biden can ignore Trump, give his responses and move on.
44% : Trump posted on Truth Social.
31% : Trump, 78, said he will take a drug test before Thursday's debate if the 81-year-old president does.
29% : "In a recent interview with The Washington Examiner, Trump admitted that he was "very aggressive" in the first presidential debate with Biden in 2020.
28% : "Constant interrupting and having the debate devolve into arguments and insults would advantage Trump," Binder told Newsweek.
18% : So does that mean then that Donald Trump is not going to look like the kind of crazy, rude, bullying interrupter because his mic is going to be muted?"Kay added that there is the "caveat" that Biden will still be able to hear what Trump is saying on the stage, meaning the Republican still has the opportunity to "rattle" the president on Thursday.
17% : The claims have been interpreted as proof that MAGA supporters are in "panic mode" by already suggesting alternative reasons why Biden might beat Trump on Thursday.
13% : Michael Binder, a professor of political science at the University of North Florida, said that "constant interrupting and rude behavior" during a televised debate would be considered an issue for most White House hopefuls, but Trump "is not your ordinary political candidate" and Biden was right to seek muted microphones.
11% : Katty Kay, a BBC correspondent who presents The Rest Is Politics podcast with former Trump White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, suggested that Biden's team is preventing Trump from appearing "crazy" during interruptions of the president during Thursday's CNN debate, and may have made a "mistake" by seeking this arrangement.
10% : The move was to avoid a repeat of the first televised presidential debate in September 2020 when Trump repeatedly interrupted and spoke over the top of Biden, eventually prompting Biden to tell Trump "will you shut up, man."
8% : Speaking on The Rest Is Politics, Kay asked if Biden's campaign possibly made an error by seeking the debate microphones be muted and therefore preventing Trump appearing like a "bullying interrupter.
8% : Biden has been known to make gaffes and errors during public speaking down the years, with Trump and his supporters suggesting the president is in cognitive decline and not fit to run for office again.

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