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Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, Democrats wail and gnash their teeth,

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Enter promo code Shapiro. Okay. So tonight is the big first debate. Huge. Awesome. Magnificent. Only one problem. Really, there's a problem. 70% of Americans say the debates make no difference to them. So 30% of Americans say that the debates make some difference to them.

So what do the expectations need to be for each side? Well, the problem for

President Trump is that Trump has set the expectations so low for Biden that basically all Biden has

to do is not obviously have a needle hanging out of his arm and stay alive. Those are literally

the only two things that Biden has to do. He needs to not have a complete physical or mental collapse on the stage, and he needs to be not caught using performance enhancing drugs. Those are the standards that Trump has set. And frankly, that's kind of Trump's fault. One of the keys to politics is lowering your own expectations and heightening expectations for the other side. So what you really should be doing in the lead up to a debate is talking about how incredible the other guy is at debate. And you should be talking about how Joe Biden is a pro. He's been doing this for years. I'm a newbie. He's going to do amazing. I think he's really with it. And then he goes in and he disappoints. When he set the expectation at Joe Biden is dead, and if he is not dead, it's because he is

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