Indeed. Biden would've done better to respond to the first thing Trump said, regardless of subject, with, "this guy's the biggest fucking liar on the planet and just got convicted of fraud and when he was in the White House he killed abortion rights and laundered millions from foreign dictators."
I honestly think that the fact that Biden improved throughout the first debate & is still doing well makes me think that something about Democratic debate prep is plain busted. The same thing happened for Al Gore at his first debate. The same thing happened for Barack Obama's first debate in 2012.
Even vanilla Tim Kaine would have dogwalked Trump just by not being the center of abject sttention in that debate. No Indy voter would have paid attention to Trumps insanity (which they have been inured to by now) with Biden looking like a corpse out there.
