Biden's secret weapon in previous national debates may again be a factor during showdown with Trump
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Amid concerns over President Biden's mental acuity fueled by social media videos and a troubling Wall Street Journal report, low debate expectations may play into his strategic advantage.
"I'd be wary of assuming that Biden's going to have a bad performance, or of talking down his potential performance because he has surpassed expectations at the 2020 debate, at the State of the Union address, and at the press conference where they were talking about his mental acuity," presidential historian and author Tevi Troy told Fox News Digital. Jamie Joseph is a writer who covers politics. She leads Fox News Digital coverage of the Senate.
"That doesn't mean he's always all there, and I fully recognize that he is not the person he was in 2012 when he debated very effectively against Paul Ryan," added Troy, who served as a senior HHS official in the President George W. Bush administration. "But when you lower the expectations of your opponent's performance, it's easy for the opponent to exceed those expectations strategically. It's something to worry about."