There have been a lot of televised political debates over the years and a lot of them a feature Joe Biden

He was on the debate stages in 1988 and 2008 and 2012 and 2020 and we're not even counting 2024 yet. But if you had to pick one

moment where Joe Biden was able to beat back his critics and win the moment in as few words as possible would probably be

this one. An editorial in the Los Angeles Times said in addition to his

uncontrolled verbosity Biden is a gaff machine. Can you

reassure voters in this country that you would have the discipline you would need

on the world stage senator.

Yes.

Thank you Senator.

Thank you Senator Biden.

That was Joe Biden during the 2008 Democratic presidential primary debates.

And while moments like that did not win Biden the Democratic nomination, we later learned

that his performance on stage was a real factor in why Barack Obama chose Joe Biden to be his

running mate. It's also a reminder that Biden can be a very

effective debater when he is calm and when he is in control. By contrast,

there's his opponent, Donald Trump, not a person who would ever willingly give up 28 seconds of a 30 second time allotment to make a point.

Trump, as we saw in the 2016 and 2020 debates, is not a creature of restraint or even strategy, per se.

Today Trump gave an interview to the Washington Examiner, where he talked about the upcoming debate and told his

interviewer that he thinks debating is an attitude more than it is anything else

which makes sense if you've ever seen Donald Trump in a debate.

In that same interview, Trump was asked about whether or not

his attitude had ever failed him.

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