David Chalian on the First Presidential Debate: ‘This Is a High-Stakes Moment’

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CHALIAN: “Wolf, I think for both candidates it is important for them to have strong debate performance. As you know, this has been a remarkably stable race. These two men are in this historic moment, having never had something like this in American history before, a sitting president debating a former president. And this is a high-stakes moment, perhaps not as high-stakes as it would be if we were talking about this debate in October, but I think one of the reasons certainly that the Biden campaign appeared desiring an earlier debate was perhaps to, in case it doesn’t go so well, to have some time to recover. But given the fact of the concerns around Joe Biden’s performance, his age that voters have expressed and that he’s asking for a renewal of his contract for four years, there is no doubt that just like we were talking before the State of the Union, this is going to be a big moment for Joe Biden to demonstrate to the American people that he’s ready for that contract renewal for four years.”