This election is not about forwarding Democratic principles or promoting our ideologies. The focus of every debate should not be what we can do to make things better. The people already THINK things are great. The focus needs to be the crimes and failures of Donald Trump as President.

He obstructed congress with Ukraine. It was a violation to withhold that money and he needs to answer to the people for it. There are THREE branches of Congress, not one. He has funneled millions of dollars of tax payer money into his own properties. We want to see the receipts and we want him to answer for it. He has failed to nominate cabinet members and other positions that need to be vetted by Congress after THREE years in office. The people want to know why. He has acted disgracefully with honored members of our Military while lifting up those deserving of our scorn. The people want an answer. His illegal assassination of the Iranian general without notifying Congress left FIFTY of our people wounded with “traumatic brain injuries.” He did nothing and dismissed them as “headaches.” The people want an explanation. He has been the only “world leader” to say that the Covid-19 virus is “not that bad” and that he has a “hunch” the World Health Organization is wrong. The people want to know how he came to that conclusion. He negotiated with a known terrorist group, the Taliban, after over 250 years of “we don’t negotiate with terrorists.” The people want to know why has he made us all targets outside our borders. The people want to know when Mexico is going to pay for the wall. The people want to know when China is going to pay for the tariffs. Why are so many of his associates now in prison? The people want to know. The people want to know why we are still so close with Saudi Arabia when EVERY foreign terrorist attack on our soil has originated from people who came from their country AND they took our journalist Jamal Khashoggi and killed him. The people want to know why he publicly mocks other members of the Government who were elected by the people. You don’t publicly say anything negative about your own team. If he were really a businessman as he claims he would know that. Why does he see the Democrats as adversaries when we are all on the same team with one goal? Why does he attack people and not issues? How is this presenting a united front to the world? The people want answers. The people want to know if the President is not racist why do so many of his policies that have a negative effect only address certain nationalities he doesn’t like? The people want his god damn tax returns NOW. The people want to know why he is using private citizens we did not approve (i.e. RUDY) as foreign diplomats speaking on behalf of the country?

This list will grow but THESE are the kinds of things that need to be the focal point of any “opening” statement the Democratic candidate makes (whether it be Bernie or Joe). We need to put him and keep him on the defensive explaining these and all of his other failures. He got in by promising to drain the swamp. We need to prove he added water.