When he meets convicted felon/2024 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump in Thursday’s debate, President Joe Biden could lower the rhetorical boom on the disgraced former president with one insult, according to ex-Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.
Speaking with NBC News for a piece on the upcoming debate, Gingrich noted that Biden can easily drown out Trump’s claims that he’s too old for a second term by bringing up an episode from the last days of the Trump administration.
“If I were Biden, I would stay away from the age issue and just say, ‘Look, I was wise enough not to try to overthrow the U.S. government,’” he said. “Go through a list of five things in a row and say, ‘I would rather have my age with wisdom than your total lack of seriousness.’”
Former Republican Vice President Dan Quayle also had advice for Biden.
“If I was advising him [Biden], I’d try to make fun of Trump. Try to ridicule him. That will get him mad.”
And Democratic strategist James Carville said he thinks Biden should be in attack mode and go for Trump’s throat.
““At some point, you have to walk into the room and say, ‘We’re going to kick his f—–g ass. We’re going to clock this motherf—-r, you understand?”
If indeed Biden does bring up the January 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection, it will harm Trump in another way: By getting Donald on a tangent about how he won the 2020 election and had every right to contest the results. But polling shows that voters hate when Trump and his surrogates attempt to relitigate history, especially since Biden won in an electoral landslide in multiple battleground states.
The debate begins Thursday at 9 p.m. on CNN.
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“At some point, you have to walk into the room and say, ‘We’re going to kick his f—–g ass. We’re going to clock this motherf—-r, you understand?”
At what point did Presidential debates become professional wrestling?
All Biden has to do is calmly state the facts, which he is easily capable of doing. No one is going to change Trump’s cultists’ minds because they haven’t any. Trump could lie on the stage and go to sleep during the debate and they would still think he won brilliantly.