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The first round of the presidential candidate debate in Cleveland, Ohio, on Sept. 29 went as expected: President Trump’s belligerent rhetoric has, over time, challenged the composure of Joe Biden, who has more modest debating skills, who he has repeatedly rebuked the current president for words unworthy of a presidential candidate.
For an hour and a half, the tension between Republican and Democratic presidential candidates debating six predetermined issues was palpable. However, in addition to the obvious political opposition between the two candidates, the person who led the debate, Chris Wallace, who is known as a registered Democratic voter despite being a member of the Fox news channel, also contributed to this. with the Republican Party. In light of this, not only would he have favored the GOP presidential candidate overnight, but on the contrary, at various points in the debate he was obviously trying to please Joe Biden, occasionally changing the debate “one to one” at a “two to one” ratio. All this, however, did not come as a surprise to the current Republican president, who is a veteran he has tried since his inauguration in 2016, in terms of unfounded media attacks against him.
The first debate segment, which was intended to address the controversy surrounding the Supreme Court, soon took a chaotic turn, as due to the weak presence of the moderator, both candidates often cut off each other’s words. Which presidential candidate best resisted media pressure and which was not revealed already in the twelfth minute of the debate, when the Democratic presidential candidate, known for his confrontations and confusing speeches, first estimated the death toll in the United States by the coronavirus at 200 million (!) the number had just surpassed 200,000. The strongest sentence in the opening segment came from President Trump saying that he was elected to serve his entire four-year presidential term, so it is beyond debate whether or not he could nominate a judge who is nearing the end of his term. presidency.
The Democratic Party and our presidential candidate, Joe Biden, were waiting for him along with his staff. the second topic, which dealt with the quality of protection against the coronavirus and the spread of the epidemic. The Democrat defiantly and disciplined avoided the president’s gaze, speaking almost without interruption to the opposite chamber, practically to the public. His political rhetoric was spiced with elements of superficial sentences that affected emotions such as “now I am talking to those who have an empty chair in their kitchen because they recently lost a relative in the epidemic.” Trump recalled that when he closed the state border with China in the spring, both the Democratic Party and Biden accused him of racism, thus hindering the social acceptance of an effective defense, the former vice president laughed awkwardly in the absence of a reasonable rebuttal.
When discussing the situation of the epidemic, the word soon turned to a policy of openness in an economic sense, as well as of boosting the country’s economy, which turned out to be a beneficial issue for Trump, who argued almost half. Joe Biden, supported by a biased moderator, insisted that the president’s tax return was primarily about the speech, Trump’s plans to keep and create future jobs based on past accomplishments, and his thoughts on tax cuts. They shocked Bident so much that, in an unprecedented way, with noble simplicity, he defeated the reigning President of the United States.
Due to social tensions in the country in recent weeks and months, ethnic issues were expected to be at the center of the debate. At first glance, Trump emerged from a segment that was perceived as boggy for the president, formulating ideas that served society as a whole and resonated well with its broad strata, as the country needed order and legitimacy, rather than organizations of far left like Antifa. During the debate, Joe Biden called it not an organization, but simply a leftist idea. To culminate in the debate, Biden, after refusing to condemn the street violence that erupted in protest and deliberately failing to acknowledge the positive impact of order and law-abiding policies on society, clearly marked a democratic escape route that no longer it was a unique flight. who called the president racist and then clown again.
In the descending phase of the presidential debate, the moderator set out to discuss the last two topics: the performance of the future president and the integrity of the election, which was intended to clarify the uncertainty of the vote in a letter pushed to the forefront by the epidemic. On the first issue, Joe Biden set out to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement, which was unfavorable for the United States compared to other superpowers, and in the latter case, Biden came out in favor of the procedure, which was deemed suspect in several cases. Instead of chirping the conventional mantras Trump, on the other hand, would strive to show tangible and real results for voters. He explained that restoring the pre-epidemic economic situation in his possible new presidential term was his main goal, and he expressed concern that a vote on the letter could even lead to fraud by Democrats and, if it did, not would be willing to legitimize. consider the outcome of the presidential election.
Looking at the evaluation of the debate as a whole, it can be said that Joe Biden performed better than his ordinary appearances in the media, he seemed more vigilant, but compared to him, Trump, who often argues impatiently and without enthusiasm, still radiates more energy and charisma. The course of the debate somehow brought back the memory of the iconic Kennedy-Nixon debate, in which Democrats tried to triumph over raw content through image and appearance. However, the XXI. In the political world of the 20th century, the modernity of this strategy is highly questionable, as voters are surrounded by unprecedented channels of information and communication. What’s more, the president is particularly well versed in squeaky and militant rhetoric, while Joe Biden’s speeches unworthy of the presidential candidate could certainly have been resented by moderate, left-wing, white, middle-class voters. Finally, with national polls showing that Joe Biden, who has more modest debating skills, still leads by more than 5 percentage points in mobilization against a much stronger Republican president, the question arises of who is risking a larger debate with a presidential candidate. Everything indicates that it is not the current president, Donald Trump, who feels at home in the media crossfire.
Author: Lóránt Sümeghi, Senior Analyst at the Fin de Siglo Foundation
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