The first Trump-Biden debate is drawing nearer and nearer, as it is scheduled for June 27. As that date approaches and President Biden looks worse and worse in videos of him that have emerged from his travels and gaffes he makes while speaking, about half of voters have a hilarious expectation of what Biden will do during his debate with Trump.
According to that June 10-11 poll of 500 people who are likely to vote in the 2024 general election that was conducted by J.L. Partners, voters have rock-bottom expectations of President Biden for the poll, thinking he will do everything from forgetting where he is to making his typical gaffes and even have issues with standing up for the whole debate.
The poll found that a full seventy percent of those surveyed expect the 81-year-old president to make one of his typical gaffes and mess up his words, nearly half, forty-nine percent, expect him to forget where he is, forty-one percent expect that the president will walk off the wrong side of the stage, and forty percent think that President Biden will have issues standing up.
Those polled had other interest expectations too. About eighty percent of the interviewees think that former President Trump will interrupt President Biden during the debate, sixty-one percent think that the former president will tell a rambling story, and just over half, fifty-four percent, think that former President Trump’s microphone will be cut off.
Half of those polled think that former President Trump will win the debate, a figure that includes a shocking thirteen percent of Democrats, while only a much lower thirty-nine percent of those polled think that President Biden will win the debate.
Many of the concerns about President Biden’s age and mental health that have been present throughout Biden’s presidency were reiterated with new vigor after the conclusions in Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report on Biden surfaced.
In that report, the special counsel said, “We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory. Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him—by then a former president well into his eighties of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”
Another section that drew particular concern provided, “In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden’s memory was worse. He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (“if it was 2013 – when did I stop being Vice President?”), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (“in 2009, am I still Vice President?”), He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died. And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him. Among other things, he mistakenly said he “had a real difference” of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry, when, in fact, Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to President Obama. In a case where the government must prove that Mr. Biden knew he had possession of the classified Afghanistan documents after the vice presidency and chose to keep those documents, knowing he was violating the law, we expect that at trial, his attorneys would emphasize these limitations in his recall.”
Trump, mocking Biden’s age and mental capabilities during a late-May of 2024 rally in the Bronx, said, “Biden can’t do it. He doesn’t know he’s alive. When he’s finished his speech he can never find the stairs—We were respected more than we ever were respected four years ago and now we’re being laughed at.” Watch him here:
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