Donald Trump’s political speech has changed tone days before participating in the first debate towards the presidential elections in the United States, this after saying for months that President Joe Biden was a man incapable of articulating two sentences.
“I assume he will be someone worth debating,” said the former president and virtual Republican presidential candidate in an appearance on ‘The All-In’ podcast.
“I don’t want to underestimate him,” he added.
This change in rhetoric represents a drastic shift from the way Trump usually describes the man he will face again at the US polls in November.
In his previous rallies and speeches, Trump had a habit of describe the current Democratic president as a “person of low intelligence” and as “the most incompetent” of American history. He even sometimes imitated Joe Biden, pretending that he was lost on stage.
Trump’s attempt to adjust voter expectations ahead of next Thursday’s debate in Atlanta comes amid concern among some members of the Republican Party that he has set the bar so low for Biden that he will surely be will overcome. He even underlines what is at stake for both candidates in a race that has seemed largely ‘static’ for several months.
Millions of people are expected to follow the debate between Trump and Biden next Thursday, June 27, an event that represents an opportunity to both candidates try to gain momentum in a race that will likely be decided by a small fraction of voters in a handful of battleground states.
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donald trump — who has never admitted that he lost cleanly to Biden in 2020 and continues to spread false and unproven theories about voter fraud — also could be preparing a series of excuses in case he is surpassed by Joe Biden.
“Maybe I’d better lose the debate,” Trump joked in an interview with Real America’s Voice earlier this month.
“I’ll make sure he stays. I will lose the debate on purpose, maybe I will do something like that,” she added.
Even Trump has not only spoken well of Biden, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, one of the main candidates for the vice presidential candidacy, highlighted the extensive experience of the president on the debate stage.
“This guy has ability,” he said last Sunday on CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ program.
“We’ve seen it in this year’s State of the Union, that when he needs to, he can step up,” he added.
At the same time, Trump and his campaign team have intensified their attacks against debate moderators, insisting that the CNN network, which will be responsible for organizing the meeting, will not give fair treatment to the former president. This despite the fact that both campaign teams accepted CNN’s invitation after deciding to dispense with the Commission on Presidential Debates, which has organized debates for decades.
“I will debate three people instead of half one person,” Trump declared at a rally in Racine, Wisconsin, last week.
Through a statement, CNN described Jake Tapper and Dana Bash as ‘well-respected veteran journalists’ with ‘extensive experience moderating major political debates.’
“No two people are better suited to co-moderate a substantive, fact-based debate, and we look forward to the June 27 debate in Atlanta,” the network said in the statement.
