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-- and the pressure is on vice president Joseph Biden and congressman Paul Ryan taking the stage tonight to battle it out.
Latest Fox News poll showing 46% have a favorable opinion of -- compared with 44%.
For the vice president Neil Cavuto host our debate coverage starting at 8 o'clock tonight.
And he joins us live now from the site in Kentucky -- vice president -- Expos beat attack dogs how NAFTA might this get.
Well they're already selling.
And of themselves short I've -- this is the same thing you see it every debate we saw an up close and personal in Denver last week -- before the today.
Each side more or less says they're -- brain dead and then afterwards says that he's a candidate for Mensa.
The fact of the matter is that.
Joseph Biden is the older more experienced guy keep in mind Dennis when he was first elected to the senate.
In Delaware.
Paul Ryan was three years old.
That was then there on this big debate states now and it is up to Joseph Biden.
To turn things around for a White House that has been getting pummeled in the polls Paul Ryan.
-- many Democrats that would be an easy target because.
On his big cuts to entitlement programs and the fact that he would.
-- -- -- -- You know throwing granny off the cliff that it's not -- out quite the way they thought it would.
Joseph Biden though is is is nobody's fool -- these debates in very structured data because of the format.
Biden does very very well in fact that throws debates -- -- floor debates on in the senate.
And old you know that that the three big debates he's -- either as a presidential candidate or as a vice presidential candidate.
He has always supported himself very very well having said all of that.
The same backdrop of last week's debate will remain that for this week's debate.
Although this one will include foreign policy as well as economic policy.
Republicans feel that they got the momentum.
And that on economic policy despite the jobless claims numbers.
You guys are just reporting on this is not a great recovery and it's -- trend the administration says it's his friend is hardly friendly.
So Joseph Biden will probably come back at Paul Ryan had tried to get specific set of in the -- -- you've heard against the Republican ticket.
Is it talks a big game but it really doesn't give any details.
About those cuts or how it's going to trend these -- deficits and debt over the next many years.
We'll mile -- Sony hello sir and can they -- call you a letter I have to always be Sharon do that now but I want to -- you -- is fine.
That's been built into it and bit the issue here as gotta be Medicare we and that seems to be the one a place where where I'm assuming.
That the vice president is gonna be ready to go after our Paul Ryan how an active Kenny B if indeed this.
Fight gets as you would say walkie tonight.
Well you know it's a very good points or because I think there in lies that the threat that this could become.
You know Alastair cook the time that it gets a little too erudite and a little -- want DM a little zoo I don't know.
Loss in the sky.
-- you're gonna hear a lot of attacks on on the republicans' war also raiding Medicare.
Give any of the Republicans go back -- the vice president say well you're taking the same amount of money out of Medicare.
As we are there is some truth to both arguments here but you can get -- -- loss in the weeds here.
We do know that of the 990 minute practices that Paul Ryan.
Has had his hand was have been telling him.
You've got to keep it to -- one minute to minute responses.
In congressional debates of which is that quite a few his opponents say that that's something.
Paul Ryan is very good at that is also something Joseph Biden is very good at you know people forget that the vice president.
That it it's always in the -- to be holder does have a sort of offbeat.
Sense of humor a little bizarre but it it's affected he knows that it had to get a laugh going Paul Ryan is a little bit more.
Studious more serious.
He will probably seem like the young -- of credits tonight.
Joseph Biden that -- sort of -- go to figure but the fact of the matter is go to spoke backwards out of have to remember SARS yes I just didn't get it I I dislike you look at.
You just take -- why can't do everything vessels out of -- -- it would he had just stop it -- last question for you.
Millions of Americans watching waiting whenever there's a train wreck a Biden train wreck can Joseph Biden when this debate just by not having some major gaffe.
-- something be said -- that that they just wanted to date where someone from the White House looks like they're not imploding.
There is that but I don't think we'll we'll we'll likely see that.
If anything Biden will probably get or try to get Ryan to slip up and make it look like and embarrass the evening.
For him it's hard to say there's no way to forecast whether an unintended -- or or an unplanned for line of attack.
Works he's vice president -- -- -- you know some of the more memorable ones like Lloyd Bentsen's.
You know saying did -- quell new Jack Kennedy decade as a friend of mine you know Jack Kennedy he won that debate in the eyes at eight out of ten people watching it but.
Little more than three weeks later that that.
That democratic ticket went down to landslide that anyway so.
I do want to put that in some prospective yeah those basically downside risk here -- -- -- for both guys thanks you very much for being.
