{"id":2284890,"date":"2024-06-27T19:34:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T23:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-agreed-to-debate-because-hes-losing-to-trump-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-06-27T19:38:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T23:38:37","slug":"biden-agreed-to-debate-because-hes-losing-to-trump-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-agreed-to-debate-because-hes-losing-to-trump-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden agreed to debate because he\u2019s losing to Trump &#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\">24<\/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%2Fbiden-agreed-to-debate-because-hes-losing-to-trump-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=2284890&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 of the provided text details the strategic challenges facing \u200dPresident\u2062 Joe\u2062 Biden in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ronna-mcdaniel-to-run-for-fourth-term-as-rnc-chair\/\" title=\"Ronna McDaniel to Run for Fourth Term as RNC Chair\">upcoming primary debate<\/a> with former President Donald Trump. This debate, set up under\u200c conditions unusually favorable to Biden, \u2062is nonetheless causing great anxiety among his team. The debate will be hosted\u2063 by CNN and uniquely \u200cfeatures closed public \u200caccess, an exclusive broadcasting setup\u200c by CNN, and delayed \u200btransmission which could potentially allow for editing \u200cof the live feed.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these advantages, Biden, who is noted as having performed poorly in late-night engagements, is being intensively\u200b prepared at\u200d Camp David, reflecting his team&#8217;s low confidence in his performance. Biden&#8217;s campaign is also spending heavily on adverts and is trying \u200dto negatively frame \u200bTrump in the \u200bmedia. This sense of\u2062 desperation is attributed to Trump&#8217;s apparent lead in \u2063the \u200dpolls, where he is projected to win both the Electoral College and the\u2064 popular vote if the election were held at the time of the article. Trump leads in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-more-votes-than-voters-in-key-swing-states\/\" title=\"Trump: More Votes Than Voters in Key Swing States\">key swing states<\/a>\u200d he lost in 2020 \u2062and is overall more popular than at any time post-April 2020. Meanwhile, \u2063Biden&#8217;s approval ratings are at a low, making him \u200bsignificantly less favorable than Trump, especially among independent voters who were crucial to his 2020 victory.  <\/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>The terms of the premature primary debate of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rnc-votes-to-withdraw-from-biased-presidential-debates\/\" title=\"RNC Votes To Withdraw From \u2018Biased\u2019 Presidential Debates\">general presidential election<\/a> are about as favorable to Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/3029444\/why-voters-dont-care-about-much-else-other-than-inflation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>as the president could possibly demand<\/a>. The debate, hosted by CNN\u2019s Dana Bash and Jake Tapper on Thursday night, will be closed to the public and feature an unprecedented two commercial breaks. Unlike past debates that were regulated by the Commission on Presidential Debates, CNN has unilateral control of the first rematch between Biden and former President Donald Trump, refusing other networks in the White House press pool the ability to cover the debate from within the arena, and the network will reportedly delay airing the live debate by at least a minute rather than the customary few seconds, theoretically granting it the power to edit or pull clips from the debate feed. And yet, Biden\u2019s team is patently terrified. The president has been whisked away from public view for the better part of a week, bunkered down in Camp David with a debate team grilling him as though he were the unemployed outsider challenging an incumbent rather than the sitting leader of the free world. Despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/beltway-confidential\/3027245\/biden-inflation-outpacing-wage-gains\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Biden\u2019s weakness in late-night spotlights like Thursday\u2019s showdown<\/a>, his team is spending $50 million on ads to build up the brouhaha before the event and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/beltway-confidential\/3023278\/bad-verdict-stacked-jury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>brand Trump a convicted felon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s team isn\u2019t acting like they have high expectations for their octogenarian candidate, and given his record, he\u2019s unlikely to surpass them. The only reason his campaign agreed to Trump\u2019s gambit to blow off the autumn debate season in favor of this affair in Atlanta is desperation. His team is desperate to do anything to reframe the narrative because, as it stands today, Trump is clearly winning the election in a quantifiable way never seen during either the 2016 or 2020 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>The polls indicate that if the election were held today, Trump would likely win both the Electoral College and the popular vote. In the swing states Trump crucially lost in 2020, he now leads Arizona by 6 points, according to his <em>RealClearPolitics<\/em> polling average, Nevada and Georgia by 4 points, and Pennsylvania by 3. Wisconsin and Michigan are virtual draws, the former of which has been all year.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/646547\/age-issues-working-trump-advantage-pre-debate.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Gallup<\/a>, Biden is more unpopular than he has ever been, 24 points underwater with barely 1-in-3 voters approving of his performance. By contrast, Trump is the most popular he\u2019s been since the start of the pandemic in April 2020, a (relatively speaking) mere 6 points underwater. Crucially for Biden, who only won 2020 with double-digit margins of independent voters, Biden\u2019s net unfavorability is nearly twice as high as Trump\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the downward pressure on Biden\u2019s polling is a product of the reality that any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-kelly-same-people-criticizing-trump-peddled-russia-collusion-hoax\/\" title=\"Mike Kelly: Same People Criticizing Trump Peddled Russia Collusion Hoax\">sitting president<\/a> is going to face more public scrutiny and blame for the current state of affairs. If Trump turns in an undisciplined performance and allows Biden to deflect the conversation away from America under the Biden administration and toward Trump\u2019s personal foibles, the debate, which could very well mark the first time lower-information voters truly tune into the general election, could indeed reignite focus on Trump and put a damper on his polling.<\/p>\n<p>But Trump\u2019s comfort on the periphery of the news cycle isn\u2019t exactly an accident either. Biden did not have to go into office and spend an extra $7.8 trillion in deficit spending, leading to a 20% increase in prices since the start of his presidency, the worst inflation crisis in 40 years. Biden did not have to give Europe the go-ahead for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and disastrously abandon our allies in Afghanistan, giving Russia the de facto green light to invade Ukraine and send geopolitics into chaos. And Biden did not have to reverse all of Trump\u2019s diplomatic deals securing the southern border, triggering some 10 million migrants to enter the country, many of whom are here illegally.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Trump is running a grown-up campaign. Unlike the leaky faucets that were the cavalcades of charlatans and narcissists in 2016 and 2020, Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles have run a tight ship even with a principal under extraordinary legal pressure and limited ability to speak without complicating his criminal investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Biden is running out of time to change the steady downward trajectory of his reelection campaign, and clearly he knows it. Goading Trump into relitigating 2020, Stormy Daniels, or whatever decade-old scandal could piss him off is the only way Biden could possibly redirect the conversation, and that\u2019s why he agreed to this debate.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The terms of the early primary presidential debate are highly favorable to President Joe Biden. Hosted by CNN&#8217;s Dana Bash and Jake Tapper, the Thursday night debate will be closed to the public and include two commercial breaks, a departure from previous formats<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2693,"featured_media":2284891,"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\/trump-biden-debate.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3620,3896,3728,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2284890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden","tag-debate","tag-election","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/trump-biden-debate.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284890","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\/2693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2284890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2284891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}