LARRY O’CONNOR: Stop Lowering Expectations for Biden’s Debate Performance. “I know it’s fun to point out all of the stupid, meandering, and incoherent ramblings Biden exhibits on a nearly daily basis, but could we please stop playing into this narrative that President Trump is going to clean his clock at the presidential debates later this month?”

Indeed.

Ann Althouse last week: “He is reasonably nimble. He can evade. He’s very evasive. You’ve got to give him that. He’s old and often seems confused, but when cornered, he’s quick to evade.”

If Biden can manage two hours of the rote fallback answers he’s been using since the 2012 campaign, it will be spun as a win.

Trump’s job — because the moderators won’t do it — will be to force Biden off-script.