I wonder if people are missing the incredible opportunity that is being handed the democratic party. I would guess there will be many, many more people watching the upcoming interview than watched the debate. I believe Biden will do well but it is really no lose if he takes the opportunity to rip Trump apart, talk about the horrible things he has done and the danger facing out country. He will have no fire hose of laws. He will be able to speak directly to the American people without having to worry about Trump’s poison. Almost everybody watching will have low expectations. After the last week they will be expecting him to be drooling, incoherent — you know like Trump. Biden will have a low bar for hitting it out of the park. The press will be humiliated. Trump will go nuts.
Biden will be prepared and ready, I have no doubt. Unless he really has gone through some dramatic decline. And frankly, though at this point I really, really want Biden to run, if he does not have a really good night he probably does need to hand the reins over to VP Harris (we need to stop calling her Kamala — we need to be especially respectful. But is he is cogent, coherent, has energy and hits Trump again and again the ways the press refuses to do he can win the election tomorrow night. Trump will have no way to recover. But even if Biden does lose his train of thought he will have an hour of telling the truth about Trump to a super bowl size audience, which is a pretty good second prize.
I do not envy the interviewer. If Biden does well the press will turn on Stephanopoulus. They will find a reason to blame him. But over a hundred million people will be watching directly. The New York Times will try and spin it and have eight articles on even the littlest mistakes, It won’t matter. People will be watching directly. They will see Biden as he really is talking about Trump as he really is.