Disappointed experts in the first American debate: it makes no sense to judge who has concluded what is a goalkeeper or a clown

Shock, confusion, and frustration would best describe the moods conveyed by the policy commentators in the morning. The impact of the unprecedented avalanche of insults and arrogant ruptures and frustration with what has changed the political discourse of the richest democracy in the world.

The expectations were really high. For Donald Trump, it was a great opportunity to get ahead of his opponent, who, according to many polls, is ahead of him both nationally and in critical fluctuating states (although the prevalence is much lower here). Joe Biden had the opportunity to affirm his leadership status. Who came out of all this? Basically nothing.

Any political speech on real issues like a tsunami of insults and riots, and Chriss Wallace, a conservative debate reporter, a conservative Fox News reporter, seemed powerless to control the situation. However, it would be hard to blame him for not trying, and hardly anyone else would have been able to stop the endless cascade of insults. It is true that the two candidates interrupted and replied without fear of stealing the opponent’s time, but Donald Trump far surpassed his opponent in this regard.

“Because there was a lot of talk from one candidate to another, there really wasn’t a lot of background noise, content in the debate and in this case it would be difficult to tell which candidate stood out. “You probably can’t attribute any major wins or losses to anyone in the current context, when polls show Joe Biden has had a fairly stable lead over the past six months, which is probably a very favorable trend for him,” said the political scientist Linas Kojala to Delfi.

Mykolas Katkus, communication specialist and director of FABULA Hill + Knowlton, followed a similar attitude. “The impression is the worst. As I said here, sometimes better debates can be found at a family party where two retirees fight. The main observation is probably that if the main tasks of the candidates were discussed before the debate, then the tasks of Trump were not fulfilled. Going into an election campaign where you have a weakness and what was widely expected is that you will try to launch the whole debate about Biden, highlight his strengths in the economy and try to attract the wealthy suburban, middle or upper class people who are they have moved a little away from him. , will attract voters from the Rust Belt, which was the reason for the short victory in the last election. It was as if those issues hadn’t been addressed, Mr. Biden didn’t get much of a chance to say anything either. Instead, we had such a chaotic spectacle, where Mr. Trump started talking constantly through the moderator, got mad at the moderator, got mad at Biden, “said the expert.

The debate itself began with the question of filling the Supreme Court, which greatly electrified the already tense political atmosphere on Capitol Hill. After the deaths of the liberal-minded judges, Trump has promised and is likely to achieve his goal of appointing another conservative judge, thereby cementing the conservatives’ dominance in the highest court for decades to come.

“There was an episode where Biden appeared to have muted his position on whether he would support such deliberations to increase the number of justices on the Supreme Court, which is dominated by conservatives. There are votes in the Democratic Party that say the number should be expanded. Biden did not directly respond to whether he would agree to do so, although he had previously mentioned that he did not plan to change that established practice. Well, there were such episodes, but they were so few that everything was overshadowed by so much opposition and noise, ”said L. Kojala. After Republicans broke their own precedent by refusing to approve a judge during the final year of the presidency, some Democrats threatened that if Biden wins the election and the party takes control of the Senate (four seats must be taken), the party will extend its quorum. The number of judges is not enshrined in the constitution and their number has already increased in the past.

However, the political debate was stifled without even starting, and after a series of interruptions, Biden christened his opponent a “clown” in the 14th minute. After a few minutes, Mr. Biden, having lost his patience, urged the competitor to just “shut up.”

The longtime face of the Fox News channel tried to steer the discussion into the realm of health issues, but here the passions only intensified. Biden accused Trump of trying to eliminate former President Barack Obama’s expanded access to health care for poor Americans without offering any other alternative. D. Trump immediately attacked the latter, and when the moderator tried to fix it, he attacked this one too, saying he was going to make drugs cheaper and make “insulin as cheap as water.” It’s unclear how this will be done, as the Trump-appointed Executive Order allows at least a different interpretation of the existing rules, but not for funding individual programs. Budget matters are constitutionally governed by Congress only, and Congress doesn’t even smell like any specific health plan.

One of D. Trump’s main arguments against J. Biden also collapsed in the debate, as if the debate was too outdated and could no longer come up with ideas in a coherent way. “I think the debate cannot be won, but it can only be won. This is to make a serious mistake or some mistakes that will later be discussed in the media. It would certainly be a huge blow to Biden if that mistake seemed to confirm Trump’s critical phrases about him. Since there was definitely no such episode, I think Biden will come out of the debate not disappointed with the outcome, but rather disappointed with the process itself, as many of those who have seen it are disappointed. ” , L. Kojala shared his ideas.

Katkus also followed suit, saying that D. Trump had lost in the clash of expectations and reality. “Biden’s main task was to take the lead in the polls now, so the main task was to make him look tired and old. That’s what Donald Trump constantly accused him of. That’s not what he looked like. combative enough, energetic enough. And it wouldn’t make much sense to evaluate who said what there, or who deduced something with a durnium or a clown, “said the expert.

“Trump really lost the expectation game here because he said he would be Sleepy Joe all along, and Sleepy Joe is gone. Despite Trump supporters on Fox News, Sean Hannity and Jannine Pirro tried to say that Biden was very powerless. But, frankly, it didn’t look like it. It seemed pretty normal, “Katkus said,” and here, just before the debate, some Republicans started saying that raising expectations about Biden was wrong, because Biden has shown throughout his career, especially in the 2012 debate with Paul Ryan, who is a tough and complex enough debater. “

It’s hard to sum up all the performance that American voters have seen, but it’s clear that the show has outperformed any content in this case. None of the candidates came up with new or unheard of ideas and made effective attacks on their opponent. It would be extremely bold to say that this debate could persuade supporters on both sides to change their minds.

Kojala highlighted an episode in which Trump attacked Biden’s business dealings with Ukrainian and Chinese companies, clearly prompting an emotional reaction from the former vice president. “It was really that episode about the family when it was obvious to touch on the familiar aspect of Biden, his emotions really started to boil, the reaction was really very personal to Trump’s statements. “There were episodes like this,” said the interlocutor, “well, there were episodes like this, but they were so few that everything was overshadowed by so much opposition and noise.”

Biden managed to avoid rumors or obvious slip-ups. There were a few moments when Biden swept and uttered the words vaguely, at one point saying that he was now a party, not that he now represented the party. But these lapses were insignificant enough and did not seem to make it difficult for Mr. Biden to express his thoughts when they were not overwhelmed by an opponent.

D. Trump, for his part, had a hard time drawing the label for “radical” J. Biden. He has consistently tried to portray Biden as a radical Marxist since the beginning of the election campaign, but these comparisons are extremely difficult to sustain as a Democratic candidate, and some of Trump’s attempts seemed a bit irregular. At the same time, attempts have been made to accuse Mr. Biden of being a very weak candidate on the issue of law enforcement, which is supposed to lead to violence and crime under his government, which will be unable to do anything. But just minutes later, Trump had already attacked Biden for his role in drafting the US Penal Code in 1994, which draconically dealt with even the smallest violations, such as the imprisonment of a marijuana spinner, and that often causes Biden to be attacked from the left.

“RE. For a short time, there was a huge ‘Black Lives Matter’ picket giveaway and many radicals, joined by all kinds of car burns. Of course, not everything here in Europe looks like it really is in Europe. United States. Because 67 percent. Respondents said, however, that the main problem was the murder of Floyd, not the demonstrations that followed. But the fact is that that candidate for Law and Order, that candidate for security who says that if I lose, a gang of hungry foreigners or people of another race will come to you to start smashing your windows, that’s really propelling the Short forward. He’s not everywhere after those protests, but in some states he has a And he’s clearly trying to portray Biden as a retired hostage of the radical left who doesn’t really understand what he’s doing and, in fact, everything is supposed to be controlled by Kamala Harris, who, by the way, isn’t either. or is as radical as he is attracted to. No way. It seems that Biden is not a radical of the left, that fact is obvious and it is very difficult to draw such a man. As the saying goes here, nicknames catch when they catch. It’s the fact that he’s supposedly a tired retiree who was a serious problem, and he’s not a radical, you just need to see him, look at his career, the voting results, and that doesn’t seem to be the case. Which I don’t think holds on very tightly. Even if he had said it very eloquently, it is still very difficult to say that Biden is a radical when he is not, “said Katkus.

The hustle and bustle of this debate was so deafening that there were even doubts among Democrats as to whether the other two were worth participating in. To sum it all up, neither Trump nor Biden won, but the debate itself lost.