McCaskill: We Need State of the Union Biden During the Debate, Not the Dignified Presidential Biden

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MCCASKILL: “Well, I think what we’re going to see is Joe Biden focusing on contrast. And I think we’re going to see, as my friend Jen Palmieri said on our podcast, Scrappy Joe from Scranton. He doesn’t respect Donald Trump. And I don’t think he’s afraid to take some swings, and he needs to. What he says is less important than how he says it. He needs to pull up Trump short when Trump starts doing some of his most outrageous things, and we know he will. And listen, don’t kid yourself. The Trump staff would love for their candidate to have enough discipline to actually prepare something. They would love it if he would actually sit down for 10 minutes and think about how to strategize this debate. But Trump’s ego won’t let him act like he needs help from anybody. So he’s going to get up there and he’s going to lie from the opening gun till the end. Jake Tapper and Dana Bash are going to have their hands full just trying to hold him to account in terms of fact checks. And I hope that Joe Biden just takes a moment to show people that he can be a street fighter. We need the State of the Union Joe Biden, not the dignified presidential Joe Biden. That’s what we need on Thursday night.”