Like what does fully prep at this point mean? Understand every subject related to the office of the presidency with a deep enough understanding to speak on it knowledgeably in front of millions of people? Impossible without an already extensive base of knowledge to build off of. It would be like taking a pleb off the street and trying to cram for the bar in 2 weeks.
I stand by what I've been saying. I believe Trump did prepare for the debate. This was, literally, the best he can do. He doesn't have the mental stamina to go toe to toe with Hillary. He doesn't understand policy, and she played him like a damn fiddle. Unless they can magically change his personality over the next two weeks, he's screwed.
My thought process would be to try and somehow get him to refuse to engage with her. Just answer what the moderator asks you, and ignore anything that comes out of her mouth. This is going to me impossible because it's Trump, but it's literally the only play I can come up with. The issue is, this doesn't work in a Town Hall, because it'll make you look like a dick.
On top of that, you have to undo what damage you did in the first debate. (Which, is possible, but you have to have previous positions and experience to fall back on a la Obama in 2012 and Bush in 2004). The issue for Trump is he appeared unqualified to be President....and that is now cemented. You can't fix that in two weeks.
His strategy is going to be going after Hillary a lot harder than this debate, and he's going to do that at a Town Hall. This is so damn dangerous.
Hillary's team has the ability to make it impossible for him to actually be able to do that, if they can keep a few scandals spinning at a time. Now is when you drag out the people he stiffed. Now is when you get women who worked for him to come out and say he's sexist. Every stupid thing he said in the debate, you hit back by pairing a surrogate with an issue. Biden gets to be your blue collar stiffing the workers guy. Obama gets to be the "disgusted sigh over African American communities" surrogate. Mom and Dad get to stay positive. You plant Dad in front of every Spanish language network you can find.
Like, we have the ability to hit him everywhere at once. We need to do it, and I'm pretty sure we are, if you go by today's scheduling.
