‘but Trump would mop the floor with Slow Joe in debates or any similar head-to-head comparison.’
maybe; but remember that political debates, especially with the sound bites that are necessary with a TV audience, are nothing so much as they are exercises in obfuscation, pounding away with strawmen...nobody excels at murky reasoning like Joe Biden...
Trump is no Paul Ryan, whom Biden made mincemeat out of, during their VP debate.