Current President Donald Trump stomped on Democratic challenger Joe Biden with frequent and intimidating interruptions that often left the latter baffled.
But Trump was not necessarily the winner; nor Biden the loser. It would be fair to say that both men lost. America lost.
Biden did his best to gather coherent answers to questions about the coronavirus pandemic, the economy, the conduct of elections, and other topics, but in the face of Trump’s incessant interruptions, he lost his composure more than once, calling Trump, among other things, “a clown”. “And once saying” do you want to shut up, man? ”
The presenter, Chris Wallace of Fox News, was also bullied by Trump and lost control of the proceedings on several occasions, allowing the president to hog airtime.
The main outcome of the debate was terrible: Trump essentially reaffirmed that he will not accept the election results if they go against him when all the ballots are counted.
“This is not going to end well,” he said sinisterly.
In Trump’s view, all unsolicited ballots are subject to fraud, and election results must be declared on Election Day, November 3. Millions of voters, perhaps as many as 50 percent and above, are expected to vote by mail in the 2020 elections due to Covid -19 fears.
When the moderator offered him the opportunity to say that he will accept the election results anyway when all the ballots are counted, Trump launched a tirade about the US electoral system. They say aberrations, not the norm.
Trump also brushed off questions about his alleged tax antics, including paying just $ 750 in taxes in 2016 and 2017, crediting the tax code created by the Obama-Biden administration for its ability to circumvent the system, and muttering that all business leaders do the same “unless they’re stupid.”
However, Biden called Trump a racist when the president tried to defend his decision to end racial sensitivity training for federal workers, and Trump argued that such instruction was resulting in “very sick ideas” and teaching people “to hate our country.”
“If you look at people, we were paying people hundreds of thousands of dollars to teach very bad ideas and, frankly, very sick ideas. Really, they were teaching people to hate our country. And I’m not going to do that. “. . I will not allow that to happen. We have to get back to the core values of this country, “Trump said.
Biden did not have the opportunity, or did not take it, to explain why he thought Trump was a racist. Indeed, she repeatedly failed – or chose not to – deliver a knockout blow, preferring instead to attempt to articulate consistent and consistent responses, but Trump stands no chance with a flurry of interruptions designed to derail thinking.
The president of the United States even attacked the Biden family’s military service without receiving a reminder from Biden about Trump’s family history regarding military service.
Even as the so-called debate unfolded, a collective groan spread across the country, on social media and beyond, about two more such debates in October filled with childish antics, petty insults and pathetic articulations. Commentators across the spectrum trashed the performance, almost uniformly agreeing that America is embarrassed.
“This is the worst presidential debate I have ever seen,” said George Stephanopoulos of ABC News, who has moderated the presidential debates.
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