Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson appeared on Fox News Sunday morning to reinforce a claim that’s been made several times by Donald Trump.
“I’m going to be demanding on behalf of many millions of concerned Americans right now that [President Joe Biden] submit to a drug test before and after this debate, specifically looking for performance-enhancing drugs,” Jackson told Fox News.
Trying to set the expectations for a debate is something that both sides do in every cycle. It’s normal that in the days before candidates face off in front of the cameras, surrogates will be on the airwaves insisting that their guy is a humble man of the people and that the other guy is a silver-tongued speaker who has received months of coaching from Socrates and William Shakespeare.
The problem for Republicans is that they spend 360 days of the year preaching that Biden is deep in the well of senile dementia. So they need a reason why this same guy suddenly sounds like a tiger.
And the only excuse they can think of is drugs.
