The debate between Trump and Harris will turn out, I am sure, to be important in a race which is so close. Each of the candidates is preparing in their own way. Based on the Trump/Biden debate, we assume that Trump will once again listen carefully to the question being asked, then ignore it completely and answer a question that he wants to answer, even though it will be totally unrelated to the question posed. How should Harris respond?

First, every time Trump ignores a question, I think she should say something like: “There he goes again, ignoring your question because he doesn’t know how to answer it. Well, I will answer your question, directly……” The, she should answer the question.

Second, every time Trump uses a pejorative adjective,  she should say something like: ” There he goes again, talking like a grade school bully, when we should be talking about the future of the United States, and your future.”

These are simple things to be used over and over again. Harris should also have at her disposal a list of facts, such as inflation rates in other countries compared with the US and amounts of oil and natural gas we have extracted in the Biden years compared with the Trump years. And so forth. Fighting back with uncontrovertible facts.

But there is something else that, for some reason, no one mentions.  And I have said this before.

A simple fact. A president can not spin the world around on a dime. A new president takes time, even if he knows what he wants to do, to get his team together and working smoothly, to deal with Congress where needed, and to have his policies implemented. This can take a few years.

An example. The infrastructure bill. This was an early Biden priority and Congress passed it in a timely fashion. But it is only now that construction projects are being started, and they will continue to unfold in coming years.

What does this mean? It means that much of the success of the economy in the pre-pandemic Trump years was a carry-over from the Obama years, and much of the criticism that Republicans levy against the early Biden years are a carryover from the failed Trump years.

It seems to me that this is obvious. Why is it never discussed?