in what was perhaps the most highly anticipated topic of the evening—and both offered incomprehensible answers. But while Trump was predictable in doling out the sort of, Biden’s incoherence was, I’d argue, a little more surprising. Not because I take this 81-year-old as a particularly competent orator, but because abortion is Democrats’ platform centerpiece this year, so it doesn’t exactly bode well that the guy at the top of their ticket could hardly talk about it.
The impact of abortion bans on rape victims is a worthy topic of discussion, especially as very few state bans offer rape exceptions, which are often But it doesn’t make any sense that Biden would invoke an inflammatory, irrelevant anecdote to transition into this point. Frustratingly enough, Biden’s comments seemed to set Trump up for his comments on immigration, in which he insisted “killers are coming into our country, and they are raping and killing women.” Instead, Trump said thatand a federal right to abortion are extreme because this allows doctors to “take the life of the baby in the ninth month, and even after birth.
Democrats have been treating abortion as their north star this election cycle since abortion rights are vastly popular—and certainly more popular than Biden himself, according to every poll andto the millions trapped living under abortion bans for over two years now, all while Biden himself has, on several occasions,—is differentiating himself from Trump on abortion. Welp, it’ll be pretty hard to do that if he can barely talk about abortion.