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Nicholas Goldberg: Tuesday's presidential debate will test Trump's assertions about Biden's mental state

President Donald Trump's attacks on Joe Biden's mental state are cruel, unsubstantiated and detestable.

But they're also effective. With the president pounding the dementia message into voters' heads steadily for months, it's no surprise that many Democrats and independents are now secretly worried about what will happen when the two presidential candidates finally meet in person at Tuesday's debate in Cleveland.

Perhaps the former vice president really has been in a decline! Maybe he has been hiding in his basement!

"Sleepy Joe doesn't know where he is or what he's doing," Trump has said

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