{"id":2283572,"date":"2024-06-25T20:08:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T00:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-campaign-sets-bar-higher-for-biden-ahead-of-first-debate-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-06-25T20:10:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T00:10:28","slug":"trump-campaign-sets-bar-higher-for-biden-ahead-of-first-debate-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-campaign-sets-bar-higher-for-biden-ahead-of-first-debate-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump campaign sets bar higher for Biden ahead of first debate &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-campaign-sets-bar-higher-for-biden-ahead-of-first-debate-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2283572&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The summary discusses former President Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign strategy for the\u2063 2024 elections. Despite consistently criticizing President Joe Biden&#8217;s \u2064age and capacities, Trump&#8217;s \u200ccampaign is now attempting to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youngkin-were-not-going-to-allow-critical-race-theory-in-our-schools-and-were-going-to-teach-all-history\/\" title=\"Youngkin: 'We're Not Going to Allow Critical Race Theory in Our Schools and We're Going to Teach All History'\">raise expectations<\/a> for Biden&#8217;s performance in an upcoming debate. Senior advisors Jason Miller and \u2063Chris LaCivita have suggested that Biden will be exceptionally prepared,\u200d having spent a week at Camp Noon.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>2024<\/a> campaign is seeking raise expectations for President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden<\/a> in the lead-up to Thursday night\u2019s debate, despite spending the past two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/putin-critic-sentenced-to-25-years-on-treason-charges\/\" title=\"Putin Critic Sentenced to 25 Years on Treason Charges\">years criticizing<\/a> his physical and mental fitness for office.<\/p>\n<p>Trump routinely attacks Biden\u2019s age, but two of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-makes-massive-campaign-change-as-he-struggles-to-gain-in-polls-against-trump\/\" title=\"DeSantis alters campaign strategy amid polling challenges against Trump.\">senior campaign advisers<\/a>, Jason Miller and Chris LaCivita, warned reporters on Tuesday that Biden, 81, will be \u201ccompletely super soldiered up\u201d following a week at Camp David spent preparing for the debate.<\/p>\n<p>The advisers further alleged that Biden will use performance-enhancing drugs including Adderall to help get him through the night, reprising claims he did so for his expectations-defying State of the Union earlier this year. Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), Trump\u2019s ex-White House physician, echoed the allegation in a letter sent to the White House over the weekend demanding Biden take a drug test both before and after the debate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that Joe Biden after taking entire week off, he\u2019s going to \u2014\u00a0I don\u2019t know if it will be at the level of Steve Rogers walking in and coming out as Captain America \u2014 but his team is going to have him ready, just as they had in 2008, 2012, 2024,\u201d Miller said on a press call Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden campaign has responded to the line of attack by accusing Trump of \u201cresorting to desperate, obviously false lies.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The advisers largely avoided discussing Trump\u2019s own strategy for the debate but again warned reporters that Biden would \u201cblame\u201d his predecessor for any of his political woes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that Joe Biden is going to try to blame everything on President Trump,\u201d Miller continued, adding that the president will \u201clie through the entire debate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Near the call\u2019s conclusion, the Trump team additionally warned that CNN, which is hosting the debate, \u201ccould influence things\u201d and try to rig the outcome for Biden.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCNN is in control of when microphones are turned off, and we would hope that everything is going to be treated fairly,\u201d Miller said. \u201cBoth candidates will have a fair shake on that, but that\u2019s to be seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe question remains to be seen. Will CNN decide that they are facilitators, or will CNN become a participator?\u201d LaCavita added. \u201cI think that\u2019s a fair question for us to have, judging from past history.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s 2024 campaign aims to elevate expectations for Joe Biden before Thursday&#8217;s debate, contradicting their usual critique of his fitness for office. Despite attacking Biden&#8217;s age, Trump&#8217;s advisers, Jason Miller and Chris LaCivita, cautioned reporters about underestimating Biden&#8217;s debate performance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2645,"featured_media":2283573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/biden-trump-debate-expecations.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[3620,32741,32531,32076],"class_list":["post-2283572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-biden","tag-first-debate","tag-trump-campaign","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/biden-trump-debate-expecations.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2283572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2283573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2283572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2283572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2283572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}