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Whoever won the last debate between the US presidential candidates is Christine Welker and her threat to use the microphone off button in front of the candidate if he exceeds his right to speak.
The topics of the presidential debate, which opened with a request for courtesy in the dialogue between the two competitors, were varied. From coronavirus and climate change to immigration, racism and unpaid personal taxes.
Moderator Wilker began the debate by asking both candidates not to boycott each other and for one of them to speak at the same time.
And I managed to enforce that for most of the time of the debate.
Changing the debate management formula (by giving its director Welker the right to use a button that turns off the microphone in front of a competitor when his competitor has to speak) resulted in the success of the second and last presidential debate between President Donald Trump and his rival, Joe Biden.
Both debaters seemed polite than in the earlier debate by allowing the other to speak, and even in their attacks on each other, which took place in a relatively organized and reverent manner.
President Trump has toned down significantly after his offensive combat performance in the first debate.
This time, the American public had a greater opportunity to learn what the two candidates propose, rather than the chaotic style that dominated the previous debate.
Covid-19 was at the top of the issues raised in the debate between the two candidates.
Coronavirus
Trump’s campaign team complained that this debate was supposed to focus on foreign policy, perhaps to allow the president to present what he saw as his achievements in the Middle East, trade, and Syria, and then pursue trade relations. of Biden and his ties to China.
Instead, the latest debate, like the one before it, began by talking about the coronavirus pandemic, the issue that matters most to Americans, as polls indicate.
Trump again defended the vaccine, saying it would be ready “in weeks.” He gave a personal testimony about the power of new medicines to treat the disease and boasted that he now had immunity to the disease.
Unsurprisingly, Biden continued his attack on Trump, indicating that he had repeatedly promised that the disease would go away on its own. He said 220,000 Americans have died from the disease and another 200,000 could die before the end of the year.
In the give-and-take debate between the two candidates, Trump continued to hope that things are looking up and that businesses and schools should reopen.
When Trump said that people are beginning to “learn to live” with the disease, Biden responded disapprovingly, “Do people learn to live with it?” Rather, say, “People learn death from it.”
Civil rights and race
During the race debate, Trump declared: “I am the least racist person in this room.”
He attacked Biden for the adoption of a draconian crimes bill in 1990 that led to an increase in the number of African Americans in prison. A more effective attack may have appeared when Biden began to speak out about his reform proposals, asking Trump why the vice president (Biden) had not done more in this regard when working with President Barack Obama.
Trump emphasized: “It is all words, and there are no actions on the part of these politicians … Why did they not achieve this? They had eight years to achieve it.”
In his response, Biden said that Trump was “one of the most racist presidents we have in recent history. He has poured oil on every fire of racism.”
Immigration
For four years, Trump took a hard-line approach to immigration, first during his Republican nomination campaign and finally after his administration in the White House. This time, however, he tried to dilute some of the more radical steps he took in this regard during his tenure.
When asked about his administration’s policy of separating children without official identification from their parents, Trump tried to turn the conversation into a discussion about detention centers, “cages” in Trump’s term, which the Obama administration has created to house unaccompanied minor immigrants.
Biden spoke outraged that the children Trump detained had come with their parents, and that this policy had made America “a mockery.” For many voters, the audiotape of separated children screaming is still relatively fresh in their minds.
Trump’s response that these children had been “well cared for” in “very clean facilities” did not appear to influence this discussion.
Climate change
One of the most heated areas of debate among the candidates has been the issue of energy, and the efficiency of renewables in particular.
Biden said that heavy reliance on oil should be replaced by renewable energy for a period of time during which the United States is moving to achieve zero-degree emissions of gases that cause climate change, while Trump pledged to continue his support. to the use of coal and oil, qualifying the United States as independent in the field of energy, that is, dependent on its own sources in its production.
When Trump asked, Biden responded, “Are you going to shut down the oil industry?” “Yes, I will stay away from the oil industry because the oil industry causes a lot of pollution.”
Trump said, “The bottom line is what he says will destroy the oil industry,” and addressed residents of the US oil states: “Will you remember that? Hey Texas?
However, Trump’s attempt to defend Biden’s call for a “transition” away from petroleum-based energy has not received the resonance that Republicans hope for Americans, in the age of hybrid cars. electricity and fuel together) and energy efficient homes (with energy consumption). Low).
Corruption
Since the start of the debate, Trump has focused too much on Biden and his son, claiming that Biden personally benefited from his son’s trade deals with Ukraine and China, and pointing to recent news that was based on information allegedly taken from the laptop. by Hunter Biden.
Biden’s defense was an outright denial, followed by a shift on the subject of Trump’s taxes and his trade ties with China. President Trump spent a long time after claiming that he had previously paid millions of dollars in taxes, and said again that he would one day reveal his tax revenues.
All in all, it can be said that the moderator of the debate Welker got answers to her questions and a more polite and rich discussion than the previous one.
Yet 12 days before the election date, Biden is still the leader in opinion polls, so will Trump’s performance in this debate be of great benefit to him to win the votes? Do we have to wait to find out?