Biden campaign co-chair signals that the president will bring up Trump's conviction during debate

President Joe Biden’s campaign co-chair Mitch Landrieu on Sunday hinted that Biden will hit former President Donald Trump on his legal troubles at Thursday’s presidential debate in Atlanta.

In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Landrieu said, “It really doesn’t matter how Donald Trump shows up if he comes in unhinged, like he is most of the time, or he sits there and is quiet. People are going to know that he’s a twice-impeached convicted felon who’s been found to have defamed somebody, sexually abused somebody, and gone bankrupt six times.”

Guest moderator Peter Alexander brought up a new Biden campaign ad that calls Trump “a convicted criminal” and asked Landrieu if that line of attack would make it to the debate stage on Thursday.

“I’ll let the president say what he’s going to say, but the fact of the matter is that the sky is blue sometimes and Donald Trump is a convicted felon,” Landrieu said.

In May, a New York jury found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in New York. Juries also found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll.

Meanwhile, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and Florida Rep. Byron Donalds — both Republicans rumored to be on Trump's running mate shortlist at one point — offered their own advice for the former president ahead of the debate.

"I think what you’re going to see is obviously the CNN moderator is going to try to do everything they can to go after President Trump, to try to get under his skin. I think President Trump, what he’s going to do is focus everything back to the terrible Biden agenda,” Donalds told Fox News on Sunday.

"I don't think that he has to talk about get personal in this debate at all, because he's going to have so