Think it's a lot more likely Biden heavily rehearsed some lines since some of his answers didn't feel like they even corresponded to the questions. He's also trying his damnedest to not interact with Trump, but getting tempted into it anyway, resulting in his trying to get himself back into his practiced lines and posture such as staring mindlessly into the camera.
Biden clearly had "old man yells at cloud" rage that he kept trying to bottle in. He's done a really poor job at bottling it in for the past year or so at this point, though ... So his behavior last night came at no surprise to me. Trump came into that debate like a bull in a china shop (which people flat-out expected from him at this rate, haha), and he did that to bait Biden into losing his composure ... And in many instances, it totally worked. Biden is now on record disgracing the office on the national stage, despite all DNC efforts to give him an entire week to rehearse his lines.
That said, I do think that Trump dialed it up to an 11 last night because he lost his composure with Chris Wallace. Once again, though, nobody is surprised with Trump being that way. This is why I still maintain that there are no winners, but Biden is definitely the loser of last night ... Or else the Democrats wouldn't even be suggesting the cancellation of the other debates.
There's quite a lot of people who have pointed out Biden's poor conduct last night. People know what they're getting with Trump, but it's clear to see that Biden's "I'm the POLITE and DECENT guy" act is wearing very thin at this point. Lots of people today saying that Biden can no longer claim a moral high ground on presidential decorum, which is why his campaign has not addressed Trump's behavior in the debate last night and why they are focusing on the bogus "white supremacy" narrative instead.
People have really short damn memories, though. Biden had demonstrative behavior in his 2012 debate with Paul Ryan; interrupted him the entire time and acted like a total jackass. The Democrats and the media
loved that behavior back then.
Also a fun fact about that 2012 VP debate: I re-watched it recently. 2020 Joe Biden is practically an entirely different person from 2012 Biden. And the DNC and media are convinced that Biden has not suffered from any mental and/or physical decline? Gimme a break! Biden looked gaunt, pale, and frail last night. Bernie Sanders, a man even older than Biden, suffered a significant heart attack THIS YEAR, and looks far more lively and "with it" than Biden does. I hate Bernie, but damn, he bounced back from that heart attack
fast.
If Biden had won the debate last night, the TDS would not be so strong today. TDS sufferers are currently acting like Trump has already won re-election or as if a nuclear bomb was dropped on them last night. There's no smugness or confidence in Biden as a candidate at all at this point. This whole election is going to be determined by just how much Americans hate Trump ... Which is a sad state of affairs, really.