Debate Bar So Low For Donald Trump That If He Doesn’t Vomit, He’s Exceeded Expectations

[babylonsister]

Debate Bar So Low For Donald Trump That If He Doesn’t Vomit, He’s Exceeded Expectations
No doubt Trump will boast that his win was HUGE.
09/26/2016 12:05 am ET | Updated 7 hours ago
Amanda Terkel Senior Political Reporter, The Huffington Post
Reuters


Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will face off for their first debate at Hofstra University on Monday night.

Donald Trump is an arrogant slacker who wastes his time hanging out at greasy spoons when he should be spending his time studying ― not like that striving know-it-all Tracy Flick Hillary Clinton. Or at least, that’s what Trump’s campaign wants you to believe.

In the run-up to the first presidential debate Monday night, Trump’s team has been working to lower the bar so far for him that it’s basically just lying on the ground. Story after story talks about how Clinton is spending her time poring over wonky policy details in briefing books while Trump is just hanging out.

Trump senior adviser Jason Miller sent a memo last week stressing that Clinton “has more debates under her belt than almost any presidential candidate in history,” whereas Trump has been in a one-on-one debate only once.

“Hillary Clinton is on the ropes and needs to change the game,” Jason Miller, the Trump campaign’s senior communications adviser, said in a memo. “Given her extensive experience debating, high level of preparation and scripted nature Clinton’s campaign no doubt views [the Monday debate] as the best opportunity to alter the trajectory of the race. ... {Trump is} not rehearsing canned 30-second sound bites or spending hours in the film room like an NFL player. He will be prepared, but most importantly, he will be himself.”

This sort of expectation-managing creates an imbalanced scenario in which, as long as Trump shows up on time and manages not to puke or something, pundits will declare him the winner.

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[saltpoint]

1. I would want to know if Trump voters

will tune in to watch their guy tonight in the same way they might go to a monster truck rally.

IMO listening to Trump might not be all that different from attending a monster truck rally.

I look for Hillary Clinton tonight to be the composite professional and accomplished adult, with a significant record of public service. I hope she mops the stage with her race-baiting ignoramus opponent.

[get the red out]

2. I don't think vomiting would hurt him much

The media would blame it on Clinton.

[JCMach1]

3. Yeah, but what if we vomit???

[Blue Idaho]

4. Will our international foes "Lower the Bar" for Trump?

This two standards thing is driving me crazy. Do people really think that our international competitors and foes will cut Trump some slack if he were to become President? Will North Korea, Russia, China, ISIS, and Al Queda all decide to go easy on that numbskull? Will our trading partners in the EU and the Americas roll over and sign some new trade deals that give them less and us more just because captain combover is at the wheel of state?

What a bunch of short sighted ignorant news hounds we have!

[babylonsister]

5. Of course not.

They most likely want him in to manipulate him.