Final Debate Just Proves Trump Can Lie in Different Gears
On a special episode of The New Abnormal responding to the final presidential debate Molly Jong-Fast and Rick Wilson are joined by GOP political consultant Mike Madrid, Daily Beast senior editor Tim Teeman and Gary Peters, the Senator from Michigan, who is here to outline the fight against voter intimidation at the polls.
Molly was aghast at Trump\u2019s almost normal debate performance. \u201cIt\u2019s almost worse when Trump tries to be normal than when Trump is just insane,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen he acts like a normal president\u2026 then you have constantly fact check him in a way that you don\u2019t when he\u2019s just huffing and puffing and screaming.\u201d
Madrid, a veteran Republican pollster now working with the Lincoln Project, said Trump\u2019s relative calm on stage means he can\u2019t be counted out of the race yet. \u201cIf he had just blown his top and set his hair on fire and started stomping on his feet, then we\u2019d be like, OK, it\u2019s done,\u201d he said. \u201cHe can lie in different gears.\u201d
But Rick is not convinced that Trump did enough to turn it around. \u201cMy theory of the case going in was that Trump needed an absolute knockout, absolutely needed to slaughter Joe Biden on that stage tonight. And I don\u2019t think he got there. I don\u2019t think he even got close to getting there,\u201d he said.
Away from the debate stage, Tim Teeman joined the gang to discuss the Trump campaign\u2019s last gasp \u201cgaslighting\u201d effort to court LGBTQ voters by claiming Trump had been an ally all along. \u201cI don't know about Donald Trump\u2019s personal bigotry, but it doesn\u2019t matter if he\u2019s a bigot personally or not,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019s advancing a course of bigotry for his own ends. And that honestly makes him just as dangerous as the bigot with a pair of keys in their fist, ready to punch you in the face on the street.\u201d
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