CNN commentator Van Jones is predicting the first debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will have some very high stakes.
On Thursday, CNN host Jim Acosta how “big of a moment” it is for Biden.
“This is the entire election as far as I’m concerned” Jones responded. “If you are a carbon-based life form, you’re going to be watching. If you’ve got a functioning brain stem, you’re going to be watching.”
He continued:
“If Biden goes out there and messes up, it’s game over. If he walks out there and a week later he’s lower in the polls, it’s panic in the party.”
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By contrast, Jones said, “But if he goes in there and he can handle himself against Donald Trump — a runaway train, a locomotive, a raging bull — then this guy deserves another shot to be president, because that is tough.”
“You couldn’t do it. I couldn’t do it. [If] you can stand toe-to-toe with a runaway train like Donald Trump for an hour and a half, you are fit to be president, period, point blank,” he continued. “This is the whole presidency in a bottle, in a week.”
The exchange comes ahead of the first debate between Trump that will air on CNN starting at 9p.m. and be moderated by the network’s Jake Tapper and Dana Bash.
