(09-16-2020 11:45 AM)gdunn Wrote: (09-16-2020 10:31 AM)Hambone10 Wrote: The biggest risk to me is that Trump pounces on him when he inevitably goes off....
Not that I don't want him to pounce.... I want him to clearly make note of it.... but that can be done through things like pauses and looking down and quiet shakes of the head and other subtle reactions... and then let 'his people' make jokes about it later. I don't want him to come across as cruel to a person whom some Republicans might empathize with.... who then might simply stay home on election day.
Heck, if there are timed responses and Joe goes off the reservation and loses the script, I might even want Trump to say... No, go ahead Joe and finish... somewhat, but not overtly condescendingly.
I don't know about your neck of the woods, Biden is already attempting to get the sympathy vote. I've seen the commercials where it talks about being sworn into office as soon as his wife passed in a hospital or his son dying of cancer... That was the big play before it led into his plea for Obamacare to be reinstated under him.
It's already there.
Oh of course. I think most older people are at least somewhat numb to the reality of death though. The far greater fear for most of them is still living, but forgetting about life.
Yes, perhaps its just my neck of the woods in that my father has symptoms and I'm helping care for him while working remotely so I'm acutely in touch with that community of support in a highly Republican part of town... but I mostly hear the spouses and families of people with the illness and their frustration with the way some people treat their loved ones.
I strongly suspect it will happen at some point and I want Trump to react to it. I don't want him to ignore it. I just don't want him to be the guy that many family members of such people hate. The criminal here is Jill and the DNC, not Joe (in terms of him running for office at all)
I'd be more like... You're right Joe... as we get older it is often an issue that we lose those close to us at an increasing rate... he might even say that's part of why he married younger women, so while the relationships weren't easy and he had greater risk of losing them as a spouse, he had less risk of losing them to death... That wouldn't be donald to show that vulnerability, but he could... perhaps in a quiet interview...
I just don't want him to laugh, snicker or mimic him on the debate stage. He can be just as effective by saying something like... 'Well, I'm not really sure what Joe's answer to that question really was, but here is mine.'
Just my opinion... yours or others may vary. He will likely have opportunities to do both.
here's the thing though.... Democrats aren't voting for Biden. He's never gotten more than about 2% of their support prior to this campaign, and he's 'evolved' on almost every issue which means he is running on someone else's actual beliefs, not his.
