The deck is stacked against the 45th president.
As next Thursday’s debate between two presidents approaches, the prevailing sentiment among political analysts on both sides – with good reason – is that both the network hosting the debate and the new rules agreed upon by the two campaigns are heavily skewed in favor of Joe Biden.
For starters, despite Trump and Republicans’ previous pledge to stop participating in debates on nakedly hostile networks, they agreed to this first general election debate on a network largely defined by its anti-Trump bias: CNN. This presents an obvious and unique challenge for the 45th president. Like his network in general, co-moderator Jake Tapper has been virulently anti-Trump from the moment he descended that golden escalator eight years ago. Both campaigns have submitted their…
