'We Know It's Not A Fair Fight': Speaker Johnson Says CNN Moderators Will Favor Biden In Debate

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At today's House Republican leadership press briefing, Speaker Johnson spoke about the upcoming presidential debate.

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00:00With regard to the presidential debate, I expect that question is going to come up about

00:05this.

00:06Look, like many, I look forward to hearing Donald Trump lay out his vision for the country.

00:10It's a positive vision.

00:12It's a forward vision.

00:13He is excited.

00:14I talked to him, spent a lot of time with him last week down in Mar-a-Lago and then

00:18on the phone over the weekend, and he's in a very good place.

00:21And I expect that you're going to see a sharp contrast between President Trump's positive

00:26agenda and Joe Biden's proven weakness.

00:30And I did a lot of media over the last several days, and everybody wants to know which Joe

00:36Biden is going to show up.

00:37Look, my summary is this.

00:39It doesn't matter if he drinks a whole gallon of energy drinks.

00:41He's not going to be able to match the acumen and the readiness of Donald Trump.

00:46And that's what we expect.

00:48Even if it's a three-on-one situation, I mean, obviously, the CNN moderators have shown an

00:52open disdain for President Trump.

00:54Everybody's seen the tapes rolling of all their comments, so we know it's not a fair

00:57fight.

00:58But Biden's still going to have to address America's concerns about his policies of high

01:02inflation and open borders and appeasement of our adversaries.

01:05Those are things that are on the hearts and minds of every American.

01:08And I know he's spending all week to prepare for it, but I guess that's how much time it

01:11takes to figure out how to defend that disastrous record.

01:14Good luck with that.

01:15So Thursday night will be an interesting thing.

01:18Next Thursday is an important anniversary.

01:19I'll just close with that, and then we'll take your questions.

01:22But members are going to be working in their districts, and we want you all to have a blessed

01:264th of July celebration.

01:28On Thursday next week, we turn 248 years old as a nation.

01:32And if you're a high school civic student, that seems like an eternity.

01:36But for all of us, we know that's really a short amount of time in the span of human history.

01:40We live in the greatest country in the history of the world.

01:42It's the strongest, most powerful, most free, most benevolent.

01:44It's not even close.

01:46And it's still an experiment is what we have to remember.

01:48It's an experiment in self-governance.

01:50We don't know how long it's going to last.

01:51But it falls upon the people here and those duly elected representatives in the Congress

01:57to preserve and keep that republic.

02:00We're serious about that.

02:01And the weight of it would be heavy.

02:03The burden would be great if we did not have great faith that we're going to be able to

02:06do this.

02:07And we will.

02:08Steve, let me let our majority leader say a word here, and then I'll take questions.

'We Know It's Not A Fair Fight': Speaker Johnson Says CNN Moderators Will Favor Biden In Debate

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