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The funny thing is there was an episode of The West Wing on this subject.
iirc Leo was running for Veep and had his buddies in the press put out a ton of stories about how bad he was at debates. When Leo proved to be adept he got a much bigger boost because he was perceived as the underdog.
But I don't think that's the case here. Vance isn't ready to go toe to toe with a career politician who is getting help from people who worked with experts like Obama
West Wing has done irreparable brain damage to libs across the country. It's why Obama's advisors told him to give republicans half the discretionary budget when they had a supermajority and didn't need a single republican vote, compromised/means tested every bill he promoted, and went with the bloodiest possible option in every foreign policy decision. In an episode of West Wing, all that compromise and appealing the the better nature of the opposition would reward you. In reality, it just demotivates your base and lets the opposition demand even more.
Walz could just do a 90 min debate where he just explains how to do general car maintenance or lawn care and he would destroy this lying anal fissure.
"CBS has asked each candidate to fact check the other. In interest of saving time, I'll just repeat all the times Mr. Vance and Mr. Trump have been caught lying. Let's start with the Haitian dog BBQ's and move backwards. Or would you prefer starting with Mr. Trump's promise to have Mexico pay for the Wall and move forward?"
Boom! Fucking nailed it man. Well said, that would be awesome!
And then for every question, totally ignore the question and just keep listing lies.