While President Biden is expected to hunker down with aides at Camp David to prepare for the first presidential debate, former President Trump is taking a less formal approach.
Rather than holding mock debates, Trump has been meeting with senators to go over policies likely to come up on Thursday in Atlanta and talking through potential topics with aides. He will spend Saturday holding a rally in Philadelphia and appearing at a conservative evangelical convention in Washington.
“I’ve been in the room for debate prep for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020,” former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said on Fox News. “He takes this very seriously. But his type of debate prep is just to talk about what you see him talking about. How he’s going to reduce inflation, what he’d do at the border.”
Trump in 2020 said he had a combination of Chris Christie and Rudy Giuliani play the role of then-candidate Biden during debate prep sessions.
This time around, Trump is not holding mock debates with an ally playing the role of Biden.
Instead, he is holding what allies describe as policy meetings to go over talking points on topics like immigration, inflation and foreign policy to prepare for what might come up at the CNN-hosted showdown Thursday.
