 Nevertheless, a static race where Joe Biden is tied with Donald Trump nationally is a race that Donald Trump wins because he will have an advantage in the swing states. The debate wasn't supposed to maintain the state of the race as it was. The state of the race as it was was a race Joe Biden was losing. It was supposed to shake up this dynamic. That was the whole reason why the Biden campaign consented to it and what they had retailed on background to reporters ahead of it.