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I love the free advice Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are getting as they prepare for tonight’s debate in Philadelphia. Trump is being told to show restraint, be presidential, graciously offer to shake Harris’s hand, stick to policies, don’t mention conspiracies or vote-rigging — in other words, give up the habits of a lifetime and for 90 minutes adopt an entirely new personality, not an easy ask of anybody, let alone a 78-year-old. And Harris is being told to come up with a better explanation for moderating several key policy positions since her own standard-lefty presidential campaign flamed out in 2019, even before getting to the Iowa caucuses. Her Delphic assertion in her interview with Dana Bash that “My values haven’t changed” is being read as secret code to the loonier precincts of her party that once safely elected, she’ll come back home to them.

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Commentators who regularly accuse Trump of lying shamelessly seem not to understand their debate advice is for him to … lie shamelessly — by pretending to be someone he isn’t — for as long as he can sustain it. And if that miracle did come to pass, who exactly would be fooled? Even when he was president, Trump wasn’t presidential.........

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