Washington Post: “Aides have sought to persuade Trump for weeks to stop lowering expectations for Biden’s performance. ‘We take Joe Biden very seriously,’ said Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh. ‘He’s had decades in the Senate where all he does is debate.’ Yet Trump routinely seeks to cast the former vice president as frail, ineffective and captive to his party’s left wing. ‘Biden doesn’t know he’s alive,’ the president said this month. That worries some of the president’s allies. ‘The bar for Biden is very low. The expectations are low. So he doesn’t have to do much to come out looking good,’ said Newsmax Chairman Christopher Ruddy, a close friend of Trump’s. ‘The president just goes out there and says whatever is on his mind. It could get pretty wild.'”