What to Expect at Tonight’s Debate: One Pundit’s Predictions

It’s a high-stakes evening in a high-stakes election, and the winner could be punching his ticket to the White House.

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Joe Biden at a campaign appearance in Pittsburgh, Pa., August 31, 2020; President Trump at a White House coronavirus briefing, August 10, 2020.

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It’s fight night in America. At 9 p.m. this evening, Donald Trump and Joe Biden will participate in a 90-minute clash. The moderator will be the 2016 debates’ best: Fox News’s Chris Wallace. Biden has called it a day before noon eleven times since September 1 by one count, and his campaign has repeatedly claimed that he has been spending that idle time on debate prep, so presumably, he should be ready. Trump has taken the opposite approach, campaigning hard but reportedly putting very little focus on debate prep. Wallace has selected the following topics: The integrity of the election, race and violence in our cities, the economy, COVID-19, the Supreme Court, and the Trump and Biden records. Who has the advantage going into each leg of the evening?

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Isaac Schorr

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Isaac Schorr

Isaac Schorr is an editor at Mediaite and a 2023–2024 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow at the Fund for American Studies.

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