President Joe Biden may have his hands full with former President Donald Trump at their debate next week, but a Virginia Democrat laughed at the idea he may have to fact-check the MAGA leader himself.
CNN host Abby Phillip on Wednesday night said her network had to fact-check one of Trump's speeches that was filled with so many lies — 30 — that "actually, we couldn't fit all of them in the show there were so many of them."
"And next week, when they're on the debate stage, what's your advice to President Biden? I mean, should he be fact-checking Donald Trump in real-time? Should he try to address this stuff before it kind of gets out there first?"
Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe laughed at the idea.
"No! If he did that Abby that's all he'd be doing," McAuliffe said, noting the copious number of fact-checks Trump received during his presidency.
"He just says things that are incorrect."
McAuliffe then offered the president a tip ahead of his square-off with Trump.
"President Biden next week on that debate stage has just got to lay out his vision of the country," he said. "Talk about the things he's accomplished, but more importantly, where he's going to take this country next."
ALSO READ: ‘They could have killed me’: Spycraft, ballots and a Trumped-up plot gone haywire
McAuliffe then jabbed the former president again, saying: "I'm so happy that the mics will be shut off when you're not speaking and you won't have audience members and MAGA members in the audience screaming and yelling."
While he hopes for a substantive debate, "I don't think we're going to get that out of Donald Trump."
For his part, Trump reportedly may regret his behavior from previous debates with Biden in 2020.
Before returning to the big stage June 27 to rematch Biden, the former president may have come to the realization he played too loud and rude the first go-around.
"He has said to people multiple times that he knows that he interrupted too much in the first debate with Biden in 2020 and having just re-watch that debate recently, it's really striking," New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Wednesday night. "I mean, we all talked about it at the time, but Biden could barely get a word in edgewise and Biden was kinda smiling throughout as this was happening."
Watch the clip with McAuliffe and Phillip below or at this link.
