Biden was already a dementia patient in 2020... they’ll pump him full of ergoloids and stimulants and feed him answers in his ear so as long as he can simply parrot they’ll prop him up.
They’ll make sure the thing is well time boxed and that they control the camera angles etc.. same tricks as always... but I don’t see no debates happening... though I suspect highly the DNC would prefer no debates happen.
Right now, the Dems are now going to have to split their efforts, they can’t just simply focus on Trump 100%, they need to undercut Kennedy, at least enough to keep him under the watermark for debate participation.
Their reaction to his VP pick tell you just how scared they are... UP until this pick you could try to argue RFK will pick off both sides (even though polling clearly showed RFK picked more from Biden than Trump).. but with this pick its beyond clear that right leaning voters are now going to be far far far less likely to consider Kennedy... and Left wing voters are DESPERATE for anyone but Biden, so the more exposure he gets, the worse it is for Biden.
Biden has lost about 20% of his supporters from 2020, this is consistent in the polling, while Trump has lost about 3%... (and gained more than that from former Biden voters)... So Any third party was always going to pull more from the Dems than the Republicans, but up until this pick they could still put out a disingenuous talking point that RFK would pull from both... or “could” hurt Trump more... With this pick, its pretty clear that talking point is DOA.
I agree about this pick. I could never vote for a ticket with Shanahan on it. Still there is so much hate and especially fear being generated but the Dems and media that Trump is Hitler that 100s of 1000s of Dems who might not have voted or haven’t voted will turn out. And if they actually don’t, then that fear will be used to explain Biden vote numbers that are the product of cheating.