A real Joe show may cost him a poll win

JOE Bid en won the battle— but his performance at the first of the 2020 debates might also have been enough to lose him thewar.

Thanks to months and months of Donald Trump’ s “sleepy Joe” crack sand increasingly disturbing brainfade You Tubes, pretty much all the former VP had to do was stay upright over the course of the debate.

So, well done, Joe Bid en— who was also given an assist by moderator Chris Wallace, who was quick to cut off topics that were unfavourable to the Democrat, as well as Donald Trump, who as is his wont was unable to re press his urge to press the attack when he should have stood back and given his opponent room to make mistakes. And make mistake she did. Because at the end of the day, Bid en was revealed as fragile and defensive. His rehearsed set pieces to camera felt like Jimmy Carter telling everyone to turn down their thermostats during the energy crisis of the 1970s. And that’ s before we get to what he actually said—and didn’t say.

Bid en refused to answer a question about whether he would pack the Supreme Court. He called Ant if a an idea rather than an organisation.

He said he didn’ t support de funding the police but suggested, bizarrely, that there should be a psychiatrist riding with cops in every squad car.

He said in the same breath that the radical Green New Deal would pay for itself— and then said he didn’ t support it. He called for an increase in the company tax rate, which was lowered under Trump, kicking off America’ s preC OVID economic surge. And soon. While debates almost never change votes, they are revealing. But with Bid en’ s supporters more being antiTrump than pro-anything else, the debate has crystallised what his people will actually be voting for. Chances are, no small number of them won’ t like what they see.