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US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said he expects “personal attacks and lies” from Donald Trump in his first televised debate on Tuesday, comparing the Republican president to Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels.
“It’s going to be difficult,” the former vice president acknowledged in an interview broadcast Saturday on MSNBC.
“My guess is that it will be a direct attack. It will be mostly personal. That’s the only thing he knows how to do,” he said of Trump.
Tuesday’s debate in Cleveland, Ohio, will be the first time the 77-year-old political veteran has faced the president he promised to impeach. The men will meet again for two more debates before the elections on November 3.
But some of his followers fear that Biden, who is prone to mistakes and lapses, may falter in these televised matches under the rhetorical blows of the Republican billionaire, who is also prone to mistakes and lapses, but is far off. more aggressive.
“He doesn’t know how to debate the facts. He’s not that smart,” Biden said as well. “She doesn’t know much about foreign policy, she doesn’t know much about domestic policy. She doesn’t know much about the details.”
As a result, Biden predicted, “it will be mostly personal attacks and lies, but I think the American people are following.”
Trump himself never stops poking fun at what he says is his rival’s lack of dynamism, nicknames him “Sleepy Joe” and attacks his mental acuity.
“It’s kind of like Goebbels,” Biden said. “You tell the lie enough, keep repeating it, repeating it, repeating it, it becomes common knowledge.”
“It’s not like it’s a surprise. So I’m prepared to go out and make my case for why I think it has failed and why I think the answers I have to continue will help the American people and the American people.” economy and make us more secure internationally. “