The Low-Bar Problem
YIKES: Watch Joe Biden incoherently babble at his Hollywood fundraiser as Obama looks on in SHOCK. This is so bad… pic.twitter.com/W7WsF74zvM — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 17, 2024 The conventional wisdom, even before the 2024 presidential debate dates were set, has been that Joe's handlers will be able to prep him well enough for the first debate, now a little over a week away, that he'll surpass a low-bar standard and "win" the debate against Trump simply by avoiding major embarrassments. For instance, Biden’s performance at his State of the Union address — which went over largely well and led to many public reconsiderations of whether he was too diminished to run for a second term — is very much on the minds of some Trump aides. They expect that Biden’s team will get him into similar shape ahead of the debate. As of now, even though I'm a contrarian in any case, I have serious doubts about this. The CNN story at the link was written l...