ATLANTA — President Joe Biden‘s campaign is downplaying how much his 2024 election opening debate against former President Donald Trump will help him in the polls as Trump maintains an average polling advantage over the incumbent.

A senior Biden campaign adviser told the Washington Examiner the debate, hosted by CNN in Atlanta on Thursday, will help Biden “break through to a larger audience that has yet to tune in to the presidential election” and “put a spotlight on the stark contrast” between him and Trump, “a convicted felon with an unhinged campaign of revenge and retribution.”