{"id":2284479,"date":"2024-06-27T09:01:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T13:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/which-joe-biden-will-show-up-to-debate-trump\/"},"modified":"2024-06-27T09:06:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T13:06:54","slug":"which-joe-biden-will-show-up-to-debate-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/which-joe-biden-will-show-up-to-debate-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Joe Biden Will Show Up To Debate Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fwhich-joe-biden-will-show-up-to-debate-trump%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=2284479&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 article sets a contentious tone\u2062 for an upcoming presidential debate\u200d involving President Joe Biden\u200c and former President\u2064 Donald Trump. It likens the debate\u200c to a rematch akin to the\u2064 famous Rocky versus Apollo boxing bouts, but also humorously compares Biden\u200b to a retired,\u200b potentially senile boxing\u2062 coach, suggesting a disadvantage due \u2063to his age and mental sharpness. It highlights contrasting media narratives, with right-wing perspectives portraying Biden as unfit and \u2064unprepared, often in physically and mentally\u2064 weak terms, while \u2062accusing \u2062the media, particularly CNN, of bias against Trump.\u200b This\u200d bias is exemplified by past controversies such as the network\u2019s contributors\u2019 allegedly leaking debate questions in 2016 and dismissing damaging information about\u200b Biden as disinformation. The article notes that Democrat strategies might involve provoking Trump into aggressive \u200bresponses, \u2064whereas Trump&#8217;s\u200c advisors are urging him to maintain composure. The debate is depicted as \u200dnot \u200djust a political contest but as laden\u200b with personal attacks, potential mishaps, and the heavy influence of media portrayal, setting the stage for\u200c a highly \u2063charged event.  <\/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>It\u2019s debate day. Insanely early (the contestants have yet to be nominated), but debate day nonetheless. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Rocky versus Apollo. The <a href=\"https:\/\/rocky.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Superfight_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rematch<\/a>. Or more like Rocky versus <a href=\"https:\/\/rocky.fandom.com\/wiki\/Mickey_Goldmill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mickey<\/a> \u2014 if Rocky\u2019s elderly trainer had been reduced to a senile stooge in the throes of dementia, better suited for an assisted living facility than the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-mike-tyson-wear-a-trust-in-god-not-in-vaccines-shirt\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: Did Mike Tyson Wear A \u2018Trust In God, Not In Vaccines\u2019 Shirt?\">boxing ring<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But we\u2019ve been told ad nauseam by President Joe Biden\u2019s handlers and his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/06\/25\/nx-s1-5017974\/an-insiders-look-at-how-biden-preps-for-a-debate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">corporate media<\/a> public-relations firm that the Democrat is ready for the rhetorical fight with a bare-knuckle brawler. After all, young Joe Biden once went toe to toe with a Delaware gang leader. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/joe-biden-corn-pop-gang-leader-wilmington-delaware-michael-harriot-lifeguard-root-retelling-race-1459303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Corn Pop<\/a> was a \u201cbad dude,\u201d Biden told us. A bad dude with a blade. But he backed down upon seeing Joe armed with a six-foot chain and an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/there-really-was-a-corn-pop--but-critics-cast-doubt-on-joe-bidens-oft-told-story\/2019\/09\/16\/227115c8-d8ac-11e9-ac63-3016711543fe_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> apology.<\/a> At least that\u2019s the old windbag\u2019s story, and he\u2019s sticking to it. <\/p>\n<h2>Two Joes<\/h2>\n<p>But what kind of Joe Biden will viewers with a presidential debate fetish see on stage tonight against former President Donald Trump, the soon-to-be three-time GOP presidential nominee that Biden\u2019s Justice Department is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/07\/12\/trump-lawsuits-doj-dissonance-00105919\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trying hard to imprison?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Will it be rise-to-the-occasion Joe, the guy who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/mar\/08\/joe-biden-came-out-swinging-at-his-state-of-the-union-address-will-it-be-enough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">astounds Dem-friendly political commentators <\/a>with his clarity of message and unusual burst of vigor \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/politics\/2024\/06\/25\/donald-trump-republicans-baseless-claim-joe-biden-drugs-presidential-debate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">manufactured as it may be?<\/a> Expectations for this guy have long been lower than the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/03\/27\/joe-biden-coronavirus-bunker-151302\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bunker<\/a> he hid out in during the 2020 election. Or will it be Hollywood gliteratti fundraiser Joe, the petrified piece of human wood that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/06\/16\/us-news\/biden-appears-to-freeze-up-has-to-be-led-off-stage-by-obama-at-mega-bucks-la-fundraiser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">freezes up<\/a> for seconds on stage in his best <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/mitch-mcconnell-appears-to-freeze-up-in-second-such-incident-this-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cocaine Mitch<\/a> impersonation? (If so, will his former boss, President Barack Hussein Obama, be there to grab the old fellow\u2019s wrist and lead him off stage?) <\/p>\n<p>Conservative political junkies believe <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/4741544-cnn-moderates-biden-trump-debate\/\">Biden will get a little help from his friends at CNN<\/a>, host of the first debate. It is, after all, the same Trump-hating network whose former contributor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/03\/donna-brazile-hillary-clinton-leak-regret-236184#:~:text=Former%20Democratic%20National%20Committee%20interim,mistake%20I%20will%20forever%20regret.%E2%80%9D\">Donna Brazile<\/a>, former acting chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, tipped off Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign to question topics in advance of a 2016 town hall event. As my Federalist colleague Brianna Lyman noted in a<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/26\/5-questions-biden-should-be-asked-if-the-debate-is-fair\/\"> piece <\/a>this week, Thursday\u2019s debate moderator, Jake Tapper, has likened Trump to Adolf Hitler. Co-moderator Dana Bash\u2019s ex-husband, an <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/26\/ex-husband-of-cnn-debate-moderator-dana-bash-signed-biden-laptop-letter-in-2020\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ex-husband-of-cnn-debate-moderator-dana-bash-signed-biden-laptop-letter-in-2020#:~:text=CNN%20debate%20moderator%20Dana%20Bash's,laptop%20as%20Russian%20election%20interference.\">operative for the CIA<\/a>, signed the<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/06\/25\/us-news\/cia-admits-some-spies-who-lie-were-active-contractors-as-records-show-internal-fear-of-long-run-harm-of-letter\/\"> 2020 letter <\/a>that shrugged off Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop as Russian disinformation weeks before the election. CNN, by the way, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/hunter-biden-laptop-re-emerges-media-embarrassment-becomes-key-evidence-gun-trial\">went along with the lie<\/a> until it finally decided the lie was no longer tenable. So not a reassuring resume for an unbiased debate. <\/p>\n<p>Democrat strategists say Biden will \u201cbait\u201d Trump into being overly confrontational or focusing on the rigged 2020 election, according to corporate media players. They insist, too, that Trump allies have urged the former president to be a kinder, gentler Donald, not a \u201cRaging -sshole,\u201d as ethically bereft Rolling Stone put it in a headline Wednesday. \u201cDon\u2019t take the bait,\u201d a \u201cRepublican who has recently advised Trump on the 2024 debate prep\u201d reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/trump-allies-urge-raging-asshole-debate-1235046992\/\">told<\/a> the leftist publication. <\/p>\n<p>Does the same go for Biden? He has routinely come across as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2023\/07\/11\/president-biden-has-notorious-temper-yells-curses-frequently-in-private-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">belligerent<\/a> and confused dementia patient when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=unrxZtm-Dxc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nevada-dems-avoid-biden-harris-on-the-campaign-trail\/\" title=\"Nevada Dems Avoid Biden\/Harris on the Campaign Trail\">asked basic questions<\/a><\/a> at rare press conferences and on the campaign trail. Will the incumbent get caught up in Trump\u2019s likely attacks on Biden\u2019s handling of the economy, the border, national security, and the cloud of corruption that hangs over the Biden family? How about when he mentions Biden\u2019s 54-year-old boy, Hunter, the degenerate with a penchant for raking in cash on the family name \u2014 and crack? You might just see a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/11\/29\/1139684742\/will-smith-daily-show-interview-chris-rock-oscars-slap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Will Smith Oscar\u2019s slap moment<\/a> from the geezer-in-chief, as he screams at Trump, \u201cKeep my son\u2019s name out of your (expletive deleted) mouth!\u201d There\u2019s definitely peril for Biden on the agitation front. Perhaps much depends on the med cocktail mix.<\/p>\n<h2>The Joe We Know <\/h2>\n<p>The Biden that will be most problematic for a far-left that will do anything to hold executive branch power is the real Biden \u2014 the gibberish-speaking, confused-looking old man that he is. If he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/joe-biden-sleeping-during-memorial-day-speech-raises-questions-1905151\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shuts his eyes in public<\/a> for a creepy or sleepy extended period of time, as he has been prone to do, that\u2019s trouble. If he goes into rambling accounts of his WWII pilot <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/04\/22\/were-so-sorry-uncle-bosie-bidens-latest-trip-down-dementia-lane-is-a-doozy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">uncle eaten by cannibals<\/a> or the like, that\u2019s trouble. If he turns into a block of ice before millions of viewers, not even the cover-running accomplice media will be able to save him in the eyes of the <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/poll-americans-on-biden-age\/story?id=107126589\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">majority of voters<\/a> \u2014 right and left \u2014 who think Biden is too senile to be president. <\/p>\n<p>Then again, this first debate is so early that it\u2019s very possible most Americans will forget about it by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-approval-slides-to-34-in-civiqs-poll\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Approval Slides to 34% in Civiqs Poll\">time early voting<\/a> and Election Day come around. Joe Biden surely will have.  <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s debate day, absurdly premature as the contestants are still unselected. Picture Rocky versus Apollo, but it&#8217;s more like Rocky versus Mickey, if Rocky&#8217;s aging coach, now a senile shadow of his former self, were more fit for assisted living than a boxing ring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2284480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-26-at-11.29.08-PM-1024x531.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3896,3728,32320,5894,3634],"class_list":["post-2284479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-debate","tag-election","tag-joe-biden","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-26-at-11.29.08-PM-1024x531.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284479","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\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2284479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2284480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}