The Biden campaign was also able to cherry-pick new polls that show the president tied with Donald Trump and closing the gap in key swing states, even though generally, polls show Biden losing a bit of ground since the debate. Because these critics are motivated by fear of a Trump victory, however, some are wary of a drawn-out public argument that could weaken Biden but fail to force him out, so Biden’s defiance has brought them up short. First, as I noted the other day, Biden’s argument before the debate was that once Americans saw Trump onstage, they’d remember why they disliked him.