How is Deflection a Winning Strategy

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It's not that when the White House holds a press conference, I don't fully understand what is going to be expected. They are going to do their best to use a lot of words to really tell you nothing that generally adds to the discussion. And I suppose that's fine to an extent. Does anyone ever really get direct answers from any White House press conference regardless of who the president is? But today's press conference, the day after one of the worst presidential debate performances probably in history, in which it led top Democrats and Biden supporters to all but abandon their guy, you'd think they'd be very interested in doing quite a lot of damage control. After all, you didn't just lose the debate. For Heaven's sake, you lost CNN!!! But they simply pointed fingers at Donald Trump and played off the debate performance as just another day. Nothing to see here. Don't worry about it. "The president knows he had a bad day, but he's a fighter." Yeah, but now it's not just Republicans on the horn about mental decline. Now it's the Democrats too. It's CNN! You can't just dismiss that one and call it a big, fat nothing. You've got to explain this one, because beyond just Democrats, the ones who saw this debate were the undecideds. The independents. You know, the ones who decide elections? Yeah, those people. This was an opportunity for the White House to speak directly to the American people, to the news media, and to anyone else interested and tell the story. Explain it, and quell fears that something is wrong with the president's health. Why screw that up? Why just shrug your shoulders? Look, they kept saying throughout the press conference that Trump doesn't care about anyone but himself. He just wants to win and he doesn't care what that means or does to anyone else. But, aren't you doing the same thing? Not answering serious questions about the president's ability to lead and outright blowing off the worst and most terrifying performance of his life? To do what? To win an election, the country be damned, fit president or not, and to hell with the interests of the American people. What a damn shame, and frankly, a disgrace. You can play the game the way the game is played when things are normal. But when they're not? You have to change the rules.