Three Things Donald Trump Must Do During the Debate, and One Thing He Shouldn’t

This is Joe Biden’s last chance. If he bombs during next week’s presidential debate, which many believe will happen, then we’ll see how valid the rumors are that he will be replaced.

There are three things President Donald Trump should strive to accomplish during the debate and one piece of advice he should definitely ignore. I’ve listed those below, but first, here are the top stories for today’s Discern Report Newsletter:

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Three Things Donald Trump Must Do During the Debate, and One Thing He Shouldn’t

If rumors are true, Joe Biden will be scrutinized thoroughly during the first presidential debate he has with Donald Trump next week. If he doesn’t seem up to par, which he probably won’t, then the powers-that-be in the UniParty Swamp could replace him with someone else.

President Trump has a unique opportunity. In contrast to previous debates when he was labeled by corporate media as being “behind” in the polls, he enters this one with a full head of steam and a positive trend in polling, particularly in battleground states.

He’s getting a lot of advice from a lot of overpaid advisors and unpaid conservative journalists. Some of it has been good, but there is one notable bad piece of advice that he’s probably hearing from far too many people. Let’s look at the three things he needs to do during this debate, then we’ll examine the one piece of advice he definitely shouldn’t take.

1. Hit Democrats and Their Policies, Not Just Biden: “Dementia Joe” is such an easy target that a middle schooler passing social studies could intellectually dismantle him. But considering the possibility that Biden could be replaced, it behooves President Trump to focus his attacks on Democrat policies, not just Sleepy Joe’s. If he isolates Biden as the cause of all the nation’s problems, then Biden’s replacement will enter the fray unscathed. But if Trump can hit the Democrats as unified in their failures, highlighting that any Democrat would be failing just as hard as Old Joe, then the message can carry over to hit the next candidate. I would even go so far as to tell President Trump to use this line, “I doubt Joe will even be the candidate so I’m really addressing whoever they plan on replacing him with.”
2. Remind People About the Way Things Were: Ronald Reagan won the 1980 election in part due to asking a simple question, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” Trump has an even bigger opportunity to invoke recent history because he has the track record from his first term. He should come armed with specific facts such as costs of common merchandise, illegal alien statistics, and the lack of conflicts across the globe when he was Commander-in-Chief.
3. Border-Economy Economy-Border: The border invasion is on most voters’ minds. Disregard any poll that shows the border crisis and the economy as anything other than #1 and #2. Depending on who gets polled the two may flip-flop but they are definitely the two top concerns. On one hand he needs to remind people how good things were when he was president. But he must also look to the future and describe how bad the border crisis and the economy can get if we get another four years of Democrat rule.

If he does those things, he’ll win easily. But let’s face it, he could probably win the debate if he got up on stage and just cracked jokes. Even a well prepared and properly drugged up Joe Biden is likely going to be a debacle.

There’s one piece of advice conservative journalists and Trump’s consultants are telling him. He should disregard the notion altogether.

They’re telling him he needs to act more “presidential.” On the surface this may seem like sound advice because in a battle against a weaker opponent it makes sense to try to take the high road. Moreover, there are those who may like Trump’s policies but that do not like his volatile nature.

Dig just below the surface of this “sound” advice and we’ll see that it would be a disaster. First and foremost, Trump is a fighter. Asking him to be more “presidential” is asking him not to punch. It would be like telling Stephen Curry to pass first even if he has an open shot because that’s what point guards are supposed to do.

Second, it’s a false assumption that he could gain more Independent voters who are on the fence by being something other than what he is. If they’re going to vote for him, it’s because they learn to accept who he is in order to gain what he can achieve. Very few will say, “Hey, he used to be mean but now he’s nice so I’ll vote for him.”

If anything, voters on the fence who don’t like his abrasive style might think he’s trying to con them by pretending to be nice all of a sudden.

Last and certainly not least, he ALREADY IS presidential. It’s not the type of “presidential” that consultants are trained to create but it generates the respect that both world leaders and domestic allies have grown to appreciate. They don’t have to like him. They just have to respect him, and what they can respect most about him is that he’s not traditionally presidential. He’s different, and I would argue much better, by being who he is.

We’ll see how it all pans out during and after the debate. Be sure to subscribe to the Discern Report Newsletter if you haven’t already.