TO:         President Trump

FROM:    Adam Turner

RE:        The June 27th Debate

President Trump, the first presidential debate is in less than a week. A lot is riding on this debate, at least for Joe Biden. This is because, since the last memo I wrote you, things have become even worse for Biden, and he and the Democrats are even more desperate to right their campaign.  

The New York partisan lawfare case against you was supposed to be a game changer; but it clearly wasn’t. Alvin Bragg got 34 convictions, but politically speaking, it has been a total dud. The latest two national polls show mixed results – a Fox Poll that has Biden up 50 percent to 48 percent and a Rasmussen Poll that has you up 49 percent to 40 percent. Overall, in the national polling RealClearPolitics average, post-conviction, you went down by about a point. This has been a temporary loss, as you have since rebounded to take a narrow lead of about a point. And, as we all know, Joe Biden needs to be up at least three points in the national polling average to be assured of winning the battleground states. Meanwhile, the polling in the battleground states, and in other states, including Iowa, Minnesota, and Virginia, has stayed the same or even gotten better for you. Also, Joe Biden’s job approval is deeply underwater, still hovering around 40 percent, which in the past has marked an incumbent president for defeat. Finally, the lawfare cases have made your fundraising shoot through the roof, and the Democrats no longer have the vast campaign finance edge they were counting on before.

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There have been a multitude of articles and columns in the mainstream media (MSM), as well as in the conservative media, evaluating the coming debate and providing unsolicited advice to the candidates. Some of these articles are totally out of left field and are ridiculous; others are more useful. I have gone through them to distill what I believe is most pertinent.  

There will be no opening statements at the debate. Instead, the moderators will jump right in with their questions. Considering we are dealing with CNN moderators, including “Fake” Jake Tapper, they will be doing their best to assist Joe Biden. I suspect the following topics will be covered:

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A large number of articles have addressed Joe Biden’s likely strategy during the debate.  In a Politico article, the left-wing news source wrote:

“We’ve seen in polling since the conviction that the more the conviction is front and center in voters’ attention, the worse it is for Trump,” said a Biden campaign pollster granted anonymity to describe internal polling because they were not authorized to do so publicly.  The pollster said their research concluded that Trump’s conviction could effectively be used in a broader depiction of Trump as being self-centered and unwilling to take responsibility for his actions.

So, you can expect Joe Biden to refer to you endlessly as a “convicted felon,” as my RedState colleague Nick Arama has written. Biden will also probably claim that you were found liable for rape – or sexual assault – and that your business was punished for its predatory behavior.  

Breitbart, reading the New York Times, so we don’t have to, further has reported that Joe Biden will be very “aggressive” so as “to show that he is not diminished and is capable of carrying out presidential duties in a second term.” They continue:

Biden will deliver “punchier” comments in the debate to project himself as “steady” and “wise” … “in contrast to Trump’s chaos and division,” the official told the Times.  Biden’s attacks will reportedly focus on how Trump is an alleged threat to democracy… His “ripping away reproductive rights, promoting political violence and undermining our democratic institutions, and doing the bidding of his billionaire donors to fund tax giveaways to the ultra-wealthy and corporations by hurting seniors and the middle class,” will be included, the official added.

Putting everything together, Biden will be depicting you as a greedy extremist billionaire, one who is totally unconcerned with democratic norms, the law, or civil rights, and who is “self-centered” and “unwilling to take responsibility for his actions.”  He will also channel his inner Bernie Sanders socialist/communist persona to attack you along economic lines (like he does in this commercial).   

Biden also might go after you regarding your response to COVID-19 and your supposed “callous indifference” to it. 

Oh, and as another RedState colleague, Sister Toldjah, has recounted, the Biden campaign is promising some further "surprises."  This could be anything; as we know, Joe Biden is not afraid to tell tall tales.  

In my prior memo, I went through some possible responses for you for the debate. Since that time, the only things that have changed are that (the left-wing site) Snopes has debunked Biden’s lie about what you said regarding Charlottesville, which was the stated reason he ran for president, and that there has been a pogrom against Jews at a synagogue in Los Angeles, which Biden has said and done nothing about. (As former New York Mayor Ed Koch would probably say, a Jew would have to be crazy to vote for Joe Biden.)  

Finally, former Speaker Newt Gingrich, who in 2012 handled the GOP Presidential primary debates masterfully, has some very useful advice regarding the big picture. He counsels you to be calm and use humor rather than anger when confronting Biden and his lies. I agree wholeheartedly. (Perhaps a “there you go again” is appropriate?) 

Speaker Gingrich also makes another key point – you have a huge edge in this debate:

(U)nless Biden can hit a knockout punch against Trump, he loses the debate by definition. Because the next morning everybody goes back to a grocery store and they look at the prices and they remember who the president is. The following day they watch the local news and they see an illegal immigrant rape or murder an American citizen and they remember Biden has an open border. The day after that they see Biden stumbling around confused with somebody helping them off of a stage or onto a stage.

Which leads me to my last point.  Since you have the final word in the debate, you certainly should end by priming the voters' post-debate thought process by channeling Ronald Reagan’s final statement in 1980. "Are you better off today than you were four years ago?"

It continues to be so appropriate.