By John Ubaldi, “Ubaldi Reports”

The first presidential debate between President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger former vice president, Joe Biden, will be held September 29th at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

The moderator for the first debate will be Fox News anchor, Chris Wallace.

This should one of the most anticipated of all the presidential debates we have witnessed in the past number of years as the combative Trump squares off against the low-key Biden. The stakes couldn’t be any higher!

This presidential election shapes up to be an election against two converging views for the country with voters having to decide – do they want four more years of Trump and his combative rhetoric?

Will America continue to embrace the free market and Trump’s America first agenda, or will they elect Biden and embrace a socialistic/progressive agenda for the country after he had turned away from his moderate record and decade’s long service in Washington.

Each one of the combatants brings a different strategy to the debate, as Biden will try to make Trump look unpresidential at the same time showing he is up for the job. Trump will contrast his record with Biden’s decade’s long service in Washington and the lack luster record of the Obama-Biden administration.

I would imagine the first question Wallace will ask Biden and Trump will be the recent death of Supreme Court jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg and by the time of the debate Trump would have selected a nominee for the bench.

Biden will attack Trump for nominating her replacement before the election, and Trump will counter he has the constitutional responsibility to make the nomination when a vacancy arises.   Wallace may ask Biden who he would select if he was president and would he release his own potential judicial nominee list like Trump has.  If Wallace doesn’t ask Biden, you can count on Trump to make an issue of it.

Each also has weaknesses going into the debate.

For the first presidential debate Biden has the most to lose, since he secured the nomination, he has kept a low profile at his home in Delaware rarely giving interviews and when he does it’s too friendly news outlets.

His campaign advisors have continued with this strategy because of the coronavirus, but the real reason is that Biden is often known for gaffs, lapses and his prolonged silences as was the case during an interview with Charlamagne tha God on “The Breakfast Club.”

Biden stated, “Well I tell you what, if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”

Rarely does Biden give interviews by prominent journalists and if he does, he is asked softball questions with prescribed questions from handpicked reporters.

When he does present himself before journalists, such as when he appeared at a CNN sponsored town hall in Pennsylvania moderated by Anderson Cooper, the questioning by the audience was juvenile at best. Anderson Cooper never followed up with any of the questioning with tough rebuttals to past or present policy pronouncements by Biden.

Many can cite his debate experience during the primary, but many times he was never pressed on policy issues and he had to also share the debate stage with over a dozen other candidates.

Even when Biden spared with his Democratic challenger Vermont progressive Senator Bernie Sanders it still a sanitized debate, he still hasn’t mixed it up with the media the same way Trump has.

This lack of practice could be his undoing in a heated debate with a combative and feisty President Trump who will savage him on his long record in Washington.

The Biden campaign has focused on attacking the persona of Trump never fully articulating what policies he would do differently if elected president.  Throughout the campaign Biden has drifted far to the left solidifying the progressive base of his party by not angering this element who clearly wanted Sanders as the nominee not Biden.

The other aspect Trump will draw sharp contrasts to Biden’s long political track record from decades in Washington.  Biden will have to answer his support for every trade deal since joining the senate in 1973, especially with China.  The trade deals Biden supported has hollowed out the industrial heartland of the country with millions of lost manufacturing jobs being outsourced to China.

Trump will also savage Biden for his embrace of the “The New Green Deal” and wanting to end fossil fuels which will cost millions of jobs in battleground states such as Pennsylvania.

The president himself has vulnerabilities, as Biden will attack him for his mishandling of the coronavirus and the economy and make this election a referendum on his leadership.  If Biden can look like he has command of his faculties and looks up for the job and doesn’t have a so-called senior moment, then he can move on to another day.

This definitely will be the most watched presidential debate in recent memory!