Trump is scrambling for an opening

Falling further behind Joe Biden, the president is lashing out

Friends,

I will have more to say in a longer premium blog post later this week, but for now I just wanted to touch base on where we are—in election terms and as a country—after last night’s presidential debate.

And let me begin by saying… wow, what a crap fest. I think Jake Tapper did the night justice when he described it as a “hot mess inside of a dumpster fire inside of a train wreck.” I’m not sure anyone watching really learned… well, anything of substance at all.

Anything, that is, besides how incapable Donald Trump is of being “presidential.” All the major post-debate media polls suggested that voters agreed on the same fundamental takeaway: Donald Trump’s frequent interruptions of Joe Biden and pretty blatant disregard for the decorum of the debate left viewers feeling more negative about him than they did before the debate. The reverse was true for Biden, who left voters feeling better about his ability to communicate as the head of state. It is hard not to agree with them.

The im…