Is former President Donald Trump attempting to lower expectations for tonight’s debate with Joe Biden on CNN? That’s the take that’s been coming from the Associated Press this week. Trump has been out on the campaign trail lambasting Biden, pointing out his cognitive decline, his frequent stumbles, and his terrible policies. He has been painting a picture, as the AP puts it, of a “shell of a man” who is incapable of stringing together coherent sentences, to say nothing of trying to go toe-to-toe with Donald Trump for ninety minutes without a teleprompter or cue cards. But more recently, Trump has suggested that Biden may still be a “worthy debater” who he doesn’t want to “underestimate.” So is Trump actually worried about how well he will do tonight? Or is just trying to spice up the pre-game show?
After months of casting President Joe Biden as a shell of a man incapable of putting…
