The earliest general election presidential debate ever is coming up this week and it's all anyone can talk about. And there's actually a good reason for that for a change. This debate could be an important moment in an already extremely high-stakes campaign that's ridiculously close and may very well stay that way all the way up until Election Day. Both campaigns are eager to try to shake things up and this week's debate is the first opportunity.
For much of the primary season, polling showed that some people were just not convinced that this re-run was actually going to happen. It seemed impossible to believe that the disgraced ex-president Donald Trump would become the nominee and that Joe Biden would not step aside for a younger successor. But here we are. And frankly, it was where we were always going to be unless something happened to one or both of them. There was clearly no desire among the many Democratic presidential hopefuls waiting in the wings to primary the incumbent and the MAGA usurpers, like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, flamed out in the primaries while the establishment alternatives, like Nikki Haley, couldn't get past Trump's rabid base.
