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The first presidential debate is coming on Tuesday night. With American political fervor the highest it has been in decades, and many Americans still stuck indoors thanks to hysterical government leaders, it could easily be the most-watched presidential debate in history. This debate will also be disproportionately important, even compared to prior debates. Unlike any presidential campaign in the past century, Joe Biden’s campaign has relied on keeping its candidate out of the spotlight as much as possible. Biden holds almost no events, rarely goes outside, and otherwise acts like the elderly semi-retired person he should be rather than a candidate for chief executive. Biden is a weak candidate who inspires nobody. His team knows this, so they keep him hidden away.

Tuesday’s debate is Team Biden’s most dangerous moment: They have no choice but to exhibit their candidate to tens of millions of people for ninety minutes, and if Biden collapses, all the preceding feints and evasions will be for nothing.

The stakes are clear: The presidential debates are President Trump’s best chance to bring down the Biden campaign and boost his own reelection odds.

Here are Revolver‘s recommendations for how President Trump can smash Biden on the debate stage, and set himself up for a win in November.

1. Seek out the big moment.

This isn’t an issue, but rather a point of strategy to be thinking about regardless of topic.

The “winner” of a debate isn’t decided in the public consciousness by mastery of the issues or making popular promises. Instead, what matters most in the debates is who comes out on top of the most memorable moments. Does anybody remember a moment from the 2016 debates besides Trump’s “You’d be in jail” ad lib in the second matchup? How about 2012 and Mitt Romney’s “binders full of women” awkwardness?

More than anything, Trump wants to be sure he’s the beneficiary of Tuesday’s most memorable moment. And the most obvious way to do that is to expose Joe Biden’s creeping senility.

Biden’s decay is obvious to anybody who watches him for more than a few minutes. Yet few Americans have fully confronted what this means. This is a man who is easily confused, easily angered, and often barely able to finish a coherent sentence.

While it’s easy to hope that Biden will simply fall apart of his own accord on the debate state, the truth is that’s unlikely. While Biden is fading, he isn’t a vegetable. He’ll still be able to recite canned talking points and respond to basic questions, and if the debate goes as planned ordinary Americans may come away surprisingly impressed with Biden, rather than horrified. And, while Trump’s suggestion that Biden take a drug test is funny, harping about it on the debate stage isn’t the way to make the point to voters.

Instead, the best way to expose Biden’s decline, and get the big moment of the debate, is to surprise Biden. Raised an unexpected topic, ask an unusual question, or otherwise do something that Biden’s staff simply won’t have prepared him for. If Trump can force the conversation off the rails, he will force Biden to think on his feet. And forcing Biden to improvise in the moment is the way to produce the confusion, mental wandering, and dementia-fueled anger that will expose Biden as grossly unprepared to serve as president.

Trump could even consider a wild strategy like producing a pen and paper and daring Biden to draw a clock. Seriously! Drawing a clock set to a specific time is a standard screener for dementia, one that people can intuitively grasp and which takes very little time. If Trump pulls a stunt like that on air, the outcome will be a win no matter what: Biden could get angry and look bad, refuse and look bad, or worst of all, accept and suffer a humiliating failure. But even if he accepts, and successfully completes the clock drawing, it will hardly help Biden: The most memorable moment in a nationally-televised debate seen by tens of millions will be Biden doing some embarrassing stunt to prove his basic cognitive faculties.

2. Put Biden on the spot about riots.

For months, city after city has been ripped apart by deadly riots launched by Joe Biden supporters. Joe Biden has supposedly “condemned” rioting and violence, and the press has given him a pass. But the Democratic Party still enables violence with its hands-off approach to the mayhem its voters are determined to unleash. Not only that, but innocent people like the McCloskeys, Kyle Rittenhouse, and Jake Gardner have been targeted for destruction for trying to protect themselves from the mob. So, President Trump should push Biden on this — hard.

President Trump shouldn’t just blame Biden for the riots, and he shouldn’t seek vague condemnations. Instead, ask Biden questions that are hard to answer without indicting his own party: Do business owners have the right to defend their livelihoods with guns? Do the McCloskeys belong in prison? And what about the police?  Heather Mac Donald has shown, definitively, that police “racism” is a hateful myth that, effectively, blames police for fairly enforcing the law against criminals. There is no racial bias in blacks fatally shot by police, and white officers are less likely to shoot unarmed black suspects than black or Hispanic officers.

Despite all this, Joe Biden has promised to use his Department of Justice to investigate police, while murders are exploding in America’s largest cities. Does Joe Biden really think police racism is the reason Chicago will have 800 murders this year?

Finally, the president should point to Biden’s own tweet about rioting.

Why does Joe Biden keep promising that his supporters will riot if he loses? Americans deserve an answer.

3. Tout the end of America’s wars.

Donald Trump is the first president in decades not to enmesh U.S. troops in a new conflict in some farflung corner of the planet that has nothing to do with America’s fundamental security. Not only that, but Trump has radically scaled back America’s presence in Iraq after defeating ISIS, while also bringing troops home from Afghanistan, America’s longest war.

All of this is worth boasting about, but Trump should also turn this into a means to attack Biden. The Trump realignment has sent the entire neoconservative camp scurrying into Biden’s camp. Iraq War architects like David Frum, Bill Kristol, Max Boot, Richard Armitage, and Eliot Cohen have all flocked to Biden. Trump should demand that Biden disavow the warmongers who support him.

Foreign policy also offers a chance for Trump to catch Biden off-guard. With war breaking out between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Trump could vow to keep U.S. troops out of the conflict, and call on Biden to do the same. If Biden agrees, it highlights Trump’s successes keeping U.S. troops out of harm’s way. If Biden declines, it paints him as the war candidate. And no matter how Biden answers, by forcing him into unexpected territory, Trump forces Biden to think on his feet, dramatically increasing the odds that he betrays his fading mental faculties.

4. Ignore the tax returns. Blow up the “Scranton Joe” lie.

One of Joe Biden’s chief lines of attack on Tuesday night will likely be going after the president for his recently leaked tax returns. President Trump will be sorely tempted to get into a scrap over them. He should resist the temptation, though, and instead go over to the counterattack, and force Biden to defend his own record.

Joe Biden has tried to appeal to the Rust Belt by presenting a blue collar, “Scranton Joe” image. It’s a sham that the press has let Biden get away with. Trump should puncture the lie.

As Delaware’s senator, Biden was the chief Congressional ally of major credit card companies. In 2005, Biden helped push through a bill that slashed bankruptcy protections for ordinary Americans just before a major recession. In return for his support, credit card giant MBNA handed Biden’s layabout son Hunter a high-status job. Tucker Carlson profiled Biden’s entire history in a segment earlier this year:

Biden has been rewarded handsomely for his friendliness to the most powerful corporations in America. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, he’s getting more donations than Trump from the big Wall Street banks. Trump could do worse than mentioning that. Force the press’s fact-checkers to admit that it’s true.

There’s another way to rip apart Biden’s lie about representing the “common man”: The opioid epidemic. Drug overdoses finally began to decline during Trump’s presidency, but they rebounded during the coronavirus lockdowns that Biden wants to continue. But the epidemic also was ignited on Biden’s watch during the Obama years. Biden was the point man for Obama’s China policy; in a 2011 speech he declared that “a rising China is a positive, positive development, not only for China but for America and the world writ large.” The Obama administration’s passive, accommodating posture towards China led to, among other things, an explosion in fentanyl and other opioids imported from China. Now, those drugs are killing tens of thousands of people every year.

But even in 2019, Biden was dismissing China as a non-threat, and saying its leaders were “not bad folks”. Maybe it was because the country’s oligarchs were handing diamonds to his son.

5. Make Biden the lockdown candidate.

Joe Biden’s debate strategy will almost certainly include attacks on President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Trump should, of course, defend his record on the virus, but not for too long. Every moment spent defending his own conduct on the virus is time that hurts Trump rather than helping him. Instead, Trump should go on the attack by looking to the future.

Six months into the pandemic, the left and Joe Biden are staking out a position of maximum panic: More masks, more business restrictions, more school closures. None of this can be justified by the science. Countries like Denmark have reopened schools without problems, for the simple reason that children don’t easily spread coronavirus, and are at virtually zero risk of dying from it:

Revolver’s exclusive report in late August estimated that coronavirus lockdowns are more than ten times more deadly than the pandemic itself, in terms of life-years lost. Every day, evidence just keeps piling up, indicating that America’s initial response to coronavirus was a misguided overreaction, and the continued use of lockdowns, school closures, and other strict tactics are both harmful and excessive. Right now, the country’s chief concern should be returning to normalcy and reviving the economy, not indulging virus hysterics.

But Joe Biden hasn’t gotten the memo. Joe Biden is instead running on perpetuating America’s wasteful war against a disease that poses virtually no threat to the vast majority of the population. At a time when schools should be opening and life should be returning to normal, Biden promises new, sweeping “action” against the virus.

In other words: Fewer rights for Americans, more power for the people controlling Joe Biden. Joe Biden and the Democrats, the party of childless urban professionals and pampered government employees, want to keep small businesses closed while big tech gobbles up the economy. They want American parents to keep their children at home so that teachers, a major Democratic constituency, can avoid returning to real work. It is a sham and a disgrace, and Trump would do well to highlight it on Tuesday night.

6. Expose Biden’s amnesty plan.

Joe Biden has promised a de facto amnesty for illegal immigrants the moment he becomes president. The press hasn’t held Biden to account for this in the slightest, so it’s President Trump’s job to do so. Biden has pledged to halt all deportations, even of pedophiles and murderers, for the first 100 days of his presidency. After the first 100 days, Biden says that only convicted felons will be deported, but in fact many felons would remain under his plan. According to Biden, drunk driving (which kills more than 10,000 people a year) isn’t a felony worth deportation:

With America’s unemployment rate back to 2009 levels, the country deserves to know that Biden wants an open border for illegal foreign workers, including deadly criminals, to flood the country and drive wages as low as possible. Immigration isn’t quite the issue in 2020 that it was in 2016. But Trump shouldn’t miss the opportunity to expose the cancer of leftist extremism metastasizing throughout the Democrat party.

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