Index – Foreigner – Debate between Trump and Biden: the litmus test. The first race will be in Ohio



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Necessity breaks the law: Due to the coronavirus epidemic, Indre Dame University in Indiana withdrew from holding its first presidential candidate debate at 3 a.m. Wednesday at 3 p.m. Participant is Cleveland Ohio and Case Western Reserve University there, as well as Cleveland Clinic, a nonpartisan Presidential Candidate Dispute Committee (CPD) health security collaborating partner and discussion host. Cleveland Clinic is Ohio’s leading private hospital facility with tens of thousands of employees.

The coronavirus epidemic has already infected more than 7 million people in the United States and more than 200,000 have died from its complications.

Both Trump and Biden will be arguing remotely for 90 minutes, and the number of people present will also be limited for epidemiological reasons.

On average, in recent polls, Biden leads 6.8 percentage points ahead of Trump, but in Ohio the difference is just 3.3 percentage points. However, according to many analysts, Biden would have to win more than several percentage points nationally in the votes cast to be above the president on even the most important point: in electoral votes. In America, individual federal states must be won, just as in individual (table) tennis, individual sets must be won, no more hits. In 2016, Hillary Clinton received three million more votes than Trump, but lost.

The country is small

How the American Midwest will vote could play a decisive role in the outcome of the November 3 election. In 2016, three states finally approved the election result, two of them, Wisconsin and Michigan, in the Midwest.

But Ohio’s 11 million, where Trump reached eight percentage points, nearly half a million votes for Clinton four years ago, is perhaps the most important litmus test for American politics than any other federal state:

  • Ohio has always voted for the last winner since 1964,
  • have been “wrong” only twice in the last 124 years,
  • a Republican candidate has never become president without winning Ohio,
  • It has been a wavering state since 1980.

Analysts explain this by saying that there is a hint of everything that is considered very American:

  • a little south, a little north,
  • urban and rural environment; Y
  • both the richest and the poorest areas are in proportion to this.

Cleveland itself, which already has fewer than 400,000. after World War II, they were still inhabited by almost a million; however, it is less typical that its composition reflects American society. Blacks (African Americans), for example, make up half the population, while they live an average of 12.7 percent in the country.

Like Ohio, Cleveland was characterized by Central European immigrants, many of whom still came from the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Therefore, the city was once inhabited by a more significant, but still important Hungarian community; the Hungarian Catholic Church of St. Imre was previously ordered to close and then reopened.

There has already been a debate here

The discussions have been organized by the CPD for more than 30 years, but the details are agreed with the campaign teams. The moderator of the duel of first words will be Chris Wallace, who is usually the presenter of the right-wing news channel Fox News, pro Trump. But it happens that Wallace is not one of the president’s favorites and suspects that he will favor Biden. The president has now posted details he likes from one of his favorite Fox shows, the Hannity Show, on Twitter, where more than 86 million people follow what he posts:

By the way, Wallace also moderated the Clinton-Trump debate four years ago.

For the first time in eight years, the incumbent president is also debating: In 2012, Barack Obama entered a battle of words with his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney.

In 2004, Cleveland had already hosted a vice presidential debate.

Six current affairs for 15-15 minutes

For ninety minutes, Trump and Biden will try to face the clay rival on six issues.

These are the following:

  • “Records”, that is, everything that rivals can contribute against each other. Most relevant, The New York Times shows that Trump barely paid federal income tax.
  • political debate around the Supreme Court. The death of liberal Chief Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg could spark tectonic shifts at the heights of American public life; Trump nominated conservative Amy Coney Barrett in her place.
  • the Covid-19 epidemic. Trump has long trivialized the pandemic and recently attacked China at the UN for believing it unleashed this “plague” on the world. Biden, who will turn 78 in November, didn’t venture out of the basement of his Delaware home for long.
  • the economy. Trump’s economic performance is recognized by the majority of respondents on average in polls. But in the spring, when the epidemic began to grow, tens of millions lost their jobs.
  • the integrity and purity of the elections. Trump says Democrats are cheating on card votes. However, experts question precisely these doubts.
  • the issue of race (skin color) and violence in American cities. The death of black George Floyd in May set off a wave of months of protests and riots in the United States; this happens back and forth if the police violence is not followed by prosecution.

Are you more interested in the presidential elections? Listen to our podcast and stay with us from 3 am on September 30 as we follow the debate of the presidential candidate minute by minute.

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