So youll come out with a clear decision before election day. Yes. Depending on how they handle this. A lot of people is have asked you will you accept a peaceful transfer of power. They spied on my campaign and they got caught, and they spied heavily on my campaign, and they tried to take down a dulyelected sitting president , and then they talk about will you accept a peaceful transfer. And the answer is, yes, i will, but i want it to be an honest election, and so does everybody else. Paul this as Senate Republicans called on twitter and facebook to testify on capitol hill following the social media platforms decision to block reporting by the New York Post about joe biden and his son hunter, prompting new accusations of big tech bias and censorship in the closing weeks of a campaign. Lets bring in our panel, wall street journal columnist and deputy Editorial Page Editor dan henninger, columnist kim strassel and Editorial Board member kyle peterson. Dan, lets start with you and, dan,
President here, 25 days or so out from the election, is in dire straits, will have to mount an almost unprecedented comeback. Explain. Well, the first debate was a debacle and then he got with covid which puts you covid back in the middle of the campaign, dominated the news for the last seven days and as a result hes fallen behind from about 6 in the real clear politics poll back to about 10 . And this is a point at which he needs to have Forward Movement and not be falling back. Paul all right. So whats the comeback strategy here. Well, first of all, generally throughout every day theyve got to do three things, find a way to say heres what ive done, a little bit of that, more on what it is i want to do in the future. You cannot get reelected without saying i have a second act in me. I know what i want to do and it sounds good to you what i want to do in the next four years. He needs to turn it into being a contrast with joe biden and frankly we saw in the Vice President ial debate a v
Democracy, theyre all on the ballot. Who we are as a nation, what we stand for, most importantly who we want to be, thats all on the ballot. Paul lets bring in wall street journal columnist and deputy Editorial Page Editor dan henninger, columnist kim strassel and Editorial Board member kyle peterson. Dan, i think the message of this convention to me boils down to character and covid19. That is the democrats trying to make the case that trump failed in controlling the pandemic and the reason is his flawed character. Did they succeed in delivering that message well enough in your view and strategically, politically was it the right message . Daniel yeah, i think so. What the heck . They could not have possibly have overstated it one speaker after another went after donald trump. I believe joe biden opened his address last night by describe ing a season of darkness which sounds to me Netflix Series rather than political campaign. [laughter] daniel this is a poll tested convention, make n
close, trump s legal team and comes after 3 days of arguments by house impeachment managers with democrats outlining the president s corrupt scheme to abuse power and warning that he will do it again if he s not removed from office. he has shown neither remorse nor acknowledgment of wrongdoing, if you can believe that july 25th was a perfect call that asking for investigations of your political opponents and using the power of your office to make it so is perfectly fine, then there is nothing that would stop you from doing it again. president trump abused his office and must be removed from that office. paul: let s bring in wall street journal columnist deputy editor dan henninger, columnist kim strassel, editorial board kyle peterson and constitutional attorney and frequent wall street journal contributor david rivken, david, let me start with you, the aim of the defenders of the president, punch holes in the argument that arguments,w well did they do? it was good day
comes after 3 days of arguments by house impeachment managers with democrats outlining the president s corrupt scheme to abuse power and warning that he will do it again if he s not removed from office. he has shown neither remorse nor acknowledgment of wrongdoing, if you can believe that july 25th was a perfect call that asking for investigations of your political opponents and using the power of your office to make it so is perfectly fine, then there is nothing that would stop you from doing it again. president trump abused his office and must be removed from that office. paul: let s bring in wall street journal columnist deputy editor dan henninger, columnist kim strassel, editorial board kyle peterson and constitutional attorney and frequent wall street journal contributor david rivken, david, let me start with you, the aim of the defenders of the president, punch holes in the argument that arguments,w well did they do? it was good day for the president s legal team