Maggie Haberman Says Trump Campaign Has ‘Lowered the Expectations’ for Biden Too Much [Video]

CNN commentator Maggie Haberman said Donald Trump’s presidential campaign knows it may have made a strategic error in casting President Joe Biden as a doddering old fool ahead of next week’s debate.

The concern, Haberman says, is that the campaign and other Republicans have set expectations for Biden way too low. Therefore, any mildly competent performance by Biden next Thursday could be seen as a stellar showing.

Republicans have long portrayed the president as being in cognitive decline, if not outright senile. According to Haberman, Trump’s team is trying to change that for the time being.

The former president offered a glimpse of the shift in strategy in an interview he did on The All-In podcast, a clip of which Kaitlan Collins played on Thursday’s installment of The Source.

“I watched him with Paul Ryan and he destroyed Paul Ryan,” Trump said of Biden’s performance in the 2012 vice presidential debate. “Paul Ryan with …