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ABC News will broadcast the debate, which it is producing in conjunction with its Philadelphia affiliate, WPVI-TV. ABC News Live, Disney+ and Hulu will stream the debate.

David Muir, the anchor of “World News Tonight,” and Linsey Davis, anchor of “ABC News Live Prime,” will be the moderators.

Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1

Team Harris debate prep is focused on:

* How to needle Trump to rattle him

* Emphasizing Trump's advanced age and lack of details on policy proposals

* Showcasing his lies, failures and broken promises during his time in office

* Avoiding being pulled into Trump's personal attacks

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-e ... rcna168907

I would like to encourage everybody to consume post-debate spin responsibly. We know the media is going to hold Harris to a different standard than Trump, and we can be almost sure that those same people will somehow find Harris lacking while Trump gets a free ride for his torrent of incoherent misinformation. We know that Harris could “win” the debate but lose the “show.” We know that Harris could win the debate and the show but still have to suffer old white men with television contracts taking potshots at her. The media is already sick of all the positive energy surrounding the Harris campaign; I expect they’ll use the debate to take as much steam out of her as possible.

The central problem is this: You—the expert who possesses real knowledge of the topics that are up for debate—are bound by a world that has rules. Your opponent, the lying propagandist and fabulist, is not. You can’t or won’t say things you know to be untrue; they can and will. You want the debate to be about policies (because you know that your policies are actually popular); they want the debate to be about personalities. Your mind is racing to convey as much information as possible in a 90-second response; their mouth is running to insult you or the people you care about as much as possible in 90 seconds. You are having a discussion based in reality; they are having a discussion meant for a reality-TV show. It’s an asymmetric war that you can’t really win.

Advisers worry whether ‘happy Trump’ or ‘angry Trump’ will show up to debate
Sources say campaign is concerned that Trump may engage in the kind of self-sabotage that turned off voters in 2020

Hugo Lowell in Washington
Mon 9 Sep 2024 12.00 CEST

Donald Trump’s campaign is most concerned going into the debate against Kamala Harris with the former president’s mood, afraid that the mercurial Trump could engage in the kind of self-sabotage that turned off voters in the 2020 presidential election, according to people familiar with the situation.

The campaign’s internal refrain is whether they get “happy Trump” or “angry Trump”, the people said, as they count down the days to perhaps the final presidential debate this cycle.

Tuesday night’s televised debate is widely seen as a crux moment in the rebooted 2024 campaign. Since Joe Biden dropped out of the race after a campaign-killing debate performance crystalized fears over his age and mental acuity, Harris has turned the race on its head.

But Harris’s upward trajectory appears to have crested and Trump’s advisers have been looking at the debate as their best chance to retake the momentum after weeks of being humped out of the news cycle. Their hope, the people said, is to get the Trump who was fast on his feet during the debate against Biden.

Their concern is getting angry Trump. If Trump becomes frustrated on the stage, it could bring out his worst instincts to make ad hominem insults in the vein of recent attacks on Harris that have turned increasingly personal and extreme to the extent that is has exasperated some of his own supporters.

Trump has struggled historically with Black women in positions of power, and the campaign is bracing for him not to repeat recent comments that questioned Harris’s race or openly misogynistic comments, and more broadly, if he launches into lengthy and rambling diatribes that have become a feature of his rallies.

The anxiety over Trump’s mood on the day reflects the reality that the campaign has been looking at the debate as the best opportunity for Trump to try and reset the race after playing defense against Harris for weeks – and the risks of doing so.



https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/art ... aign-fears

Their hope, the people said, is to get the Trump who was fast on his feet during the debate against Biden.

Trump displays clinically meaningful tangential thinking and disordered syntax. Those are medical terms to describe severe disruptions in thinking and mind-wandering. More down-to-earth characterizations in this domain would be phrases like:

“Your thinking seems all over the place.”

“Recently, even some of your allies and the TV networks that support your candidacy notice that you struggle to complete your thoughts and you say things people can’t understand.”

“You seem aware that your thoughts are more scattered now. The other day, you acknowledged your mind “weaves,” but then you said that only reflected how brilliant you are…but for me, and I think many of us, it feels like there is yarn all over the floor.”

“It’s as if your thoughts just can’t stay on the highway. They get lost on side roads.”

“When you seem to mix up people, not just names, and don’t seem aware of it, I worry about your well-being.”

“When you don’t answer questions asked of you, I wonder if it is because you don’t want to or you just can’t remember the question.”

“So, so many of your past advisers and cabinet officers are on the record in warning the public that you are just no longer capable of addressing thorny problems. Doesn’t that concern you?”

“You’re still good with your nicknames, insults, and complaints about how you are treated, but can you handle the country’s difficult problems? Or will you just hand them off to your Project 2025 cronies?”

PANICKED Trump THROWS A FIT Right before BIG DEBATE

MeidasTouch
2 hours ago

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s unhinged behavior before today’s debate with VP Harris.

SuzieC wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 1:17 pm Anyone know who's live-blogging the debate? I can't watch Trump under any circumstances.