A debate between 'two senior citizens'

US President Joe Biden and his predecessor, former President Donald Trump are scheduled to take part in their first televised debate on Thursday night. Most surveys show the candidates as polling just one point of each other, yet Forbes reported that a recent New York Times/Siena poll showed Trump about six points ahead of his Democratic competitor.

“Speaking of professor Cornel West, he suggests that the choice is between civil war as fomented by Donald J. Trump, or, World War III as fomented by the misguided foreign policies of one [US President] Joseph R. Biden,” said the writer and scholar Gerald Horne, who sat down with Sputnik’s The Critical Hour to discuss the upcoming debate on Thursday.

The poll also found that 60% of respondents believe Trump will perform “very” or “somewhat” well compared to 46% who said the same about Biden. And a separate poll released by Quinnipiac University found that 16% of voters are open to changing who they will vote for in November based on how candidates perform in the debate.

“With regard to Mr. Biden, it seems to me every time he mentions the word Ukraine, every time he mentions the name Zelensky, and perhaps even every time he mentions Israel and Netanyahu, he will be putting his foot in his mouth because these foreign conflicts that give fare to ignite World War III are quite dangerous and quite ominous,” the show's guest said.

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Debate preview: ‘arrogant’ Democrats tasked with selling Biden to wary public

"Both teams essentially are owned and operated by the exact same people and they don’t work for the public,” highlighted commentator and podcast host Misty Winston on Sputnik’s The Critical Hour program.

“How is Joe Biden from Delaware – Mr. Genocide, corporate Joe – how is he going to do this?” host Wilmer Leon asked. Biden has historically been recognized for his affinity with large financial institutions, many of which are headquartered in Delaware to take advantage of the state’s low taxes and lax regulation.

“I'm also very curious about this 'compelling anti-monopoly record,’” Winston said. “I would like to see that. I don't know anything about that. So, maybe it's been kept a secret from all of us.”

“It is all about narrative,” the analyst claimed. “It has nothing to do with his actual policy positions, his actual record.”

“That's the arrogance,” said host Garland Nixon, responding to Democratic Party operatives’ insistence that “too few Americans know” about Biden’s economic record. “‘The economy is good, you people are just too stupid to know it! Joe Biden is a populist!’ All their argument is always, ‘we've got to get the message to these poor idiots and saps that just don't know… We're fools, that's the problem.”

“Yeah, it's always the voters’ fault,” said Winston mockingly.

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