Trump campaign told Fox News that Biden’s team asked for breaks during the debate

[Andy Meek]

• Ahead of Tuesday night's first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, Trump's campaign requested that former Vice President Biden submit to a check for any electronic earpieces -- presumably so he couldn't, you know, cheat during the debate.
• Biden's camp as of the time of this writing has refused. Meantime, an unnamed Trump source also told Fox News that Biden representatives requested multiple breaks during tonight's debate, which is most likely not true.
• Tonight's presidential debate is set to begin at 9 p.m. Eastern time.

One of President Trump's oft-repeated lines of attack against his rival Joe Biden, heading into tonight's presidential debate, is that the former Vice President has, shall we say, lost a step since 2016 and the end of the Obama administration. "Sleepy Joe" is the nickname Trump has bestowed on the veep, who has been subject to a barrage of attacks from Trump criticizing Biden for being too senile to be the commander-in-chief. These attacks reached their apotheosis on Tuesday, in the hours ahead of the first presidential debate between Trump and Biden, with Trump's campaign making a big show of demanding that Biden be checked for an electronic earpiece tonight (insinuating that Biden is too old to debate appropriately without the help from answers being piped into his ear).

And, for good measure, Trump's campaign also got Fox News to run the following tidbit -- that Biden's campaign, according to a Trump source, has requested breaks every 30 minutes during tonight's debate. "Our guy doesn't need breaks," an unnamed source told Fox. "He gives 90-minute speeches all the time."

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