Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former communications director in Donald Trump’s White House, suggested the former president’s taunting of President Joe Biden over their newly-announced presidential debates is a bad move.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” anchor Wolf Blitzer said the presumptive GOP nominee is “setting very low expectations” ahead of the June and September debates with his baseless claim that Biden “can’t put two sentences together.”
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“That’s a terrible strategy,” Griffin said.
She recalled Trump’s similar tactic before Biden’s State of the Union address when his campaign “essentially said, ‘If he doesn’t keel over at the podium.’ That was the bar that they set.”
When Biden “outperformed expectations” at the SOTU he “got a bump,” said Griffin. Trump’s attacks were “entirely the wrong tact.”