Harris and Trump are getting ready for Tuesday’s debate in sharply different ways

Kamala Harris will be spending a great deal of time both studying policy and practicing with seasoned opponents and people with a deep understanding of Trump's psychology.

Trump will argue with a cheeseburger.

Kind of ironic that Donnie uses that particular Mike Tyson quote because he’s a whiny little bitch who is afraid of direct confrontation and has only ever punched women.

I think Harris may be neglecting a key part of necessary prep. She should spend some time at the zoo outside the monkey enclosure dodging their flung shit, or I fear she might lose.

On one hand, my knee jerk reaction is to say debates don't really matter.

On the other hand, Biden literally dropped out over the last one.

“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.”

Yes they do Donnie. I wonder if you'll remember that when you're laid out on the debate stage from the beatdown Kamala inflicts on your orange ass.

I hope Harris doesn’t over prepare, she does need to maintain a certain level of off the cuff affability.

Over preparation was Biden’s fatal error, he was struggling so hard to hit his talking points he couldn’t keep things straight. Obviously things are vastly different with Harris, but she’d be best to not just be a talking point machine.

So Trump's plan is to punch her in the face on live TV?
It's a bold move...

Trump pooped his pants at the last debate. Literally pooped his pants and there is audio evidence of it and no one cared.

He's going to spout off a bunch of dog whistle, nonsensical bullshit without answering a single question and his base will eat it up.

I ha e hope for Harris, but this debate will change nothing.

If the article said that Trump was huffing paint and doing whippits as prep I would believe it.

Well yeah. Because Trump’s strategy will just be to talk about all the shit he already talks about, regardless of the question. If he does actually try to answer the question he will likely just waffle, call things fake news, call Kamala a communist, shit like that. Kamala will have a normal strategy of actually answering the questions like literally any other politician would in any other debate. Hopefully she can also shut down Trump with a few simple similar to “he’s weird” comments, because even though it’s a shame that they work, they do actually work for just dismissing his bullshit and are simple to understand for the simple minded.

As I say, it’s a shame so many people are apparently that simple, that stuff like “make America great again” and “fake news, that’s just fake news” actually work: but they do work for persuading certain simple minded people who the Democrats need votes from.

It’s kinda how the whole “when they go low we go high” thing doesn’t actually work as a complete strategy.

Yes she needs to be making coherent, actual points as well. But having the odd simple put down and knowing when something Trump has said is so insane, that it actually doesn’t deserve a proper answer, but simply a dismissal is important.

Otherwise you end up being on the defensive constantly and run out of time to actually make your own coherent points.

The sad part is his base won't care how stupid he looks and how great she does. They're beyond reasoning. I do look forward to our future President kicking the shit out of him at the debate though.

if kamala doesn't fucking steam roll in this debate i'm handing over my citizenship card, whoever wants it first can claim it later.

Trump will ramble nonstop, hot mic rule will prevent them from moderating him (as if they would) and Harris will look bad because she has to endure his ramblings because getting into a shouting match will look worse.

Wait, is he gonna take a swing at Harris?

I would enjoy it if she brought out a large 2 minute countdown timer to start every time he starts talking.

Looking forward to the grand American tradition of having candidates accuse each other of doing good things while vehemently denying the other's slanderous accusations that they would ever do anything good.

The low information voters who are still undecided will not respond to a reasonable person, they need a show of strength.