Biden (and, to an extent, Chris Wallace) have an astonishing opportunity on Tuesday night.
There have been a gazillion shocking stories written about Trump — and in general, they've barely moved the needle.
But on Tuesday, up to 100 million people will be...paying attention.
Biden has an enormous menu of options on what to focus on from the past 4 years — not just what's important but what might *stick* when people are paying attention that didn't when people weren't.
Like, remember the NYT tax evasion story from 2018? "Trump stole hundreds of millions of dollars from taxpayers through an illegal scheme to enrich himself."
Would that stick any better when 100 million people are focused, for however short a moment?
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I don't know if that would be a good choice or not.
But I bet there's *something* grotesque that got lost in the news cycle that — when said directly, right to Trump's face — would have a very different power than it did the first time around.
In other words, four years of reporting have left a bunch of hammers just lying around on the ground, waiting for someone to pick one up in the right moment and do damage on a very different scale.
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