Amazingly, we are just a little over 48 hours away from the first presidential debate of the 2024 cycle. I don’t want to oversell it because every face-off between candidates running for president is usually a big deal. Yet I dare to say this might be the most anticipated presidential debate since incumbent Ronald Reagan faced off against former Vice President Walter Mondale in 1984.
In the first debate between those two candidates, Reagan was accused of being sluggish, and the Mondale campaign looked to take advantage of that by saying that Reagan was too old and could not keep up with the rigors of the presidency. For the second debate, Reagan performed a political slam dunk by responding to a question about his age by saying he would not take advantage of Mondale’s youth and inexperience in such a manner and essentially ended any chance Mondale had of winning with that one quip.
