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Biden leads Trump by eight percentage points in the latest Reuters/Ipsos national poll,
conducted Oct. 20-22. His lead has slipped by a couple of points over the past few weeks and is
back to where it was in September, before Trump was hospitalized with Covid-19.

Relatively few voters have yet to make up their minds, and Trump’s window to in uence the
outcome may be closing. A record 47 million Americans already have cast ballots, eclipsing
total early voting from the 2016 election, ahead of the debate in Nashville, Tennessee.

Trump’s campaign signaled that the often pugnacious president would attack Biden for not
accomplishing more during his nearly half-century in public service and zero in on what
Trump, 74, alleges were corrupt practices by the Biden family.

Aides of Biden, 77, said he needs to deliver a disciplined performance to appeal to the
undecided voters and not to allow Trump to get under his skin with attacks on his family,
especially his son Hunter.

One Biden adviser said aides want him to counter Trump without seeming un-presidential. He
is expected to again bash Trump’s handling of the pandemic, arguing that it has had a
disproportionate economic impact on low-wage workers.

Several states, including the election swing state of Ohio, reported record single-day increases
in Covid-19 infections on Thursday, evidence that the pandemic is accelerating anew.

September’s contentious rst debate between the pair was watched by at least 73 million
viewers. Trump passed up another planned debate last week after it was switched to a virtual
format following his Covid-19 diagnosis.

‘Rope-a-dope’

Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh said the president would bring up Biden’s long
record in politics, as well as his family’s business dealings.

“The clear message is that President Trump has accomplished more in 47 months than Joe
Biden has in 47 years. The president built the world’s best economy once and is already doing
it a second time. Trump is still the political outsider, while Biden is the ultimate insider,”
Murtaugh said.

In the rst face-off, Trump repeatedly interrupted Biden, attacked him personally, and showed
little respect for the moderator. Swing voters, especially women, were turned off by his
actions, post-debate polls and focus groups showed.

Michael Steel, a Republican who served as a top aide to former House of Representatives
Speaker John Boehner, said Trump needs to take a step back and give space for Biden to make
mistakes.

“There is probably nothing President Trump can do in terms of attacking Biden that he didn’t
already try in the rst debate,” Steel said. “He now needs to rope-a-dope, laying back and
acting presidential while needling Biden to ub - and ub badly.”

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After the rst debate was marred by disruptions from both candidates, each of their
microphones will be switched off while his opponent makes his two-minute introductory
statement on a topic, so as to give uninterrupted speaking time. Both microphones will then be
active for the discussion period that follows.

Debate topics will include the pandemic, race relations, climate change and national security.
The Trump campaign argued that the entire debate should be focused on foreign policy.

Trump is expected to return to a line of attack that surfaced in the rst debate, accusing Biden
and his son Hunter of unethical practices in China and Ukraine. No evidence has been veri ed
to support the corruption allegations by Trump and his aides, and Biden in the rst debate
called them false and discredited.

Biden campaign deputy manager Kate Beding eld said Trump’s personal attacks would
back re.

“We expect that Trump will attack Biden and his family, and every time he does that all he’s
doing is reinforcing what we have said all along: he is acknowledging that he has no case for a
second term. He has no answers to the failures of the last four years and no plans or vision for
the next four,” she told reporters.

Biden has been under pressure to explain his position on a push by some within his party to
“pack” the Supreme Court to counter its rightward drift, by expanding the number of justices
from the current nine.

He said on Thursday that if elected he would put together a bipartisan commission of scholars
to examine reforming a federal judiciary that he called “out of whack.” He said there were
alternatives to consider besides expanding the Supreme Court.

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