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True, but if you look up "support staff" in the dictionary, you generally don't see a picture of Barack Obama with his hand up someone's arse.

Time to buy a lottery ticket! 🤣

Untrue. The illegal alien crime rate would be ZERO if they weren't in the country in the first place. The idea that there is an acceptable number of young girls who can be raped and murdered by illegal aliens is utterly despicable. The only acceptable number is zero.

Then how do you explain The Donald's growing support in those communities? It's almost as if he were treating them as (gasp) Americans who want what is best for their country, not as an easily led flock of sheep like the Democrats do. They want to live in safe communities with good schools and low crime. Just like everyone else. The Democrats are so condescending, they assume that Latinos will support illegal immigration because many of the illegals happen to be the same ethnicity. Not true. Latest polling shows majority support among Hispanics for mass deportation of illegals. So Biden can take his pathetic pandering and leave.

Actually, if you knew anything about The Donald, you would know that he has been doing this kind of thing for a long time, long before he got into politics. He is a good boss and a good tipper as well. IF you knew anything about him...

Possibly the worst part for Biden was either forgetting or refusing to acknowledge the deaths of Americans serving in the military during his presidency. To forget them, to fail to honour their sacrifice, in order to try and score a cheap political point in a debate, is utterly depraved. The families of those dead soldiers and marines must be livid. All Joe can talk about is his own son's tragic and premature death. The rest? They don't exist as far as Biden is concerned.

One thing you are not hearing is that, 10 minutes before the debate started, Trump was on the phone with the mother of the 12 year old girl (Jocelyn Nungaray) who was raped and murdered by 2 illegal immigrants in Texas. Allegedly. Offered his condolences and sympathy to a grieving family. Has the President called and talked to any of the victims of his failed policy? Sh!t, he can't even say their names properly when they are written on a teleprompter.

Trump is a classic BS artist. He revels in using superlatives- everything is the best, worst, biggest, etc. But it's not really lying if he believes it. Plus he was remarkably restrained, perhaps the format did that to him, perhaps he finally took some good advice from his team and decided to STFU when his opponent was making a mistake. No need to bluster or interrupt in that case. Like it or not, he hit the hot button topics that Americans care about- immigration, inflation, housing. And Biden was, well, quite sad really.

That is the problem with old people who are fading. They CAN have good, even very good days. But those days are unpredictable and often repetitive. And flanked by terrible and horrible days. Biden did well with his teleprompter and giving a 5 minute address to an adoring crowd. The debate, remember the format and moderators were ALL chosen by the Democrats, highlighted his weaknesses in terms of mental agility and concentration. And those skills never get better, only worses.

Probably.

Well, let's see him match up against the mighty mane that Doug Burgum used to sport...

Everyone knows that Biden was hiding for more than a week to prepare. Just look at his official schedule- he went from a weekend at his beach house 10 days ago straight to Camp David and has been surrounded by handlers getting him ready. Everyone in the media acknowledges this. Frankly, he would be foolish NOT to prepare.

Van is one of those guys that I disagree with on almost everything, but would love to go out for a few drinks with. He comes across as sincere and intelligent. Not a 100% partisan hack stuck on his talking points. It is gonna be a looong weekend for the upper caste of the Democratic Party.

One of the saddest parts was that Joe couldn't speak for 2 minutes without going off topic. He was answering a question on abortion, which should be perhaps his strongest issue. Suddenly he was talking about immigration! Started saying girls were getting raped by their in-laws, their brothers and sisters..... WTF? Incoherent.

Very true. 20th century Biden came across as loquacious and almost endearing. He had an easy smile and could be charming at times. He seemed to enjoy talking and also listening to people. Also no mention of the fabled 'Biden stutter', nor did it ever show up in any of his appearances. Now what we see is a husk of that man. All that is left is anger, outrage, and pride.

What needs to happen now is that all those people who claim that Biden is doing cartwheels in private, solving trigonometry problems, and spontaneously giving policy positions.... those people need to admit that they were lying. It is obvious that Biden is, and had been, in decline for years. There has been NO "behind the scenes " Biden who performs so wonderfully.

It will never happen. Worst case scenario, the judge orders a prison term for Trump. It is instantly appeales by his lawyers. Trump is kept at the court while a judge on the NY equivalent of the state supreme court (already on call) accepts the appeal by phone. Trump walks out with the sentence stayed pending the appeal.

The worst thing that could happen to Trump now is if the Democratic party illuminati decide that Joe needs to go, and they push someone else in his place.

That's not their job. They need to stay out of the way, and let the two men have at each other. Basically be referees, not judges. To be honest, I think they did a good job. Held Trump's feet to the fire a few times when he didn't answer, which was fair.

Gotta say that I was impressed by Trump's discipline and self control. The format maybe helped him in that. But he was able to talk about what he wanted and get in some good shots at Biden.

The latest spin from Camp Biden is that Joe has a cold, that is why his voice is so hoarse and lifeless. Sure.

Impressed with Trump's discipline so far. Joe is not making sense.

The 'rules' imposed by CNN are getting more and more interesting. Now they are insisting on a 1 or 2 minute delay of the broadcast. Standard on network TV is 7 seconds. Plus excluding many media outlets from accessing their live feed. So I am beginning to wonder how much of a debate this really will be. The head of the CPD has already come out with numerous criticisms and is less than impressed.

I am waiting to see how much this is a debate, and how much it is a parallel interview. The problem with having two moderators is that they always try to insert themselves into the spotlight. They can't help themselves, it is how they do things in their day jobs. But will there be any direct interaction at all between the candidates? Or will the Holders of the Mike Cut Switch ensure that there will be no spontenaity or unscripted moments?

You obviously don't know Doug Burgum very well. He is a self made multi-millionaire (possibly billionaire), born on a farm in North Dakota and built his own computer software company from scratch. Successful governor, philanthropist, classic salt-of-the-earth midwesterner.