Donald Trump or Joe Biden: Who won the final presidential debate?

The final debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden is over.

The Republican president and his Democratic rival clashed for the last time before the Americans went to the polls on November 3.

Thursday night’s debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, was far more orderly than last month’s chaotic first outing.

While the third presidential debate has traditionally been devoted entirely to foreign policy, the topics selected by the moderator Kristen Welker were “Fight against COVID-19”, “American families”, “Race in the United States”, “Climate change” , “National Security” and “Leadership”.

Trump had vowed to go off script and criticize Biden for revelations about his son Hunter Biden’s overseas dealings. While the issue arose, there was less attention than some expected.

In attendance as a special guest of President Tony Bobulinski, a former Hunter business associate who issued an explosive statement this week implicating the former vice president in his son’s foreign deals.

This is what experts and pundits are saying about the debate.

Fox News host Chris Wallace, who moderated the first debate, said he was “jealous” and “would have liked to moderate that debate.”

“I thought it was a good debate with two competing visions,” he said.

“I thought Biden had a lot of more specific plans, whether it’s dealing with Covid, climate change, healthcare. I thought the president’s presentation was more fluid, clearly there were times when Joe Biden seemed to falter a bit in making his point or finishing. your prayer. “

Wallace said the issues “played more in Biden’s favor” and that they often put Trump on the defensive.

He said he was “impressed” by Biden’s response to questions about his son, and said he was “very successful in countering him” by immediately attacking Trump on his Chinese bank account and failing to turn over his tax returns.

“In terms of key moments, the president talked a lot about, ‘You guys have spent all these years in Washington, everyone is talking without action,'” Wallace said.

Wallace said Biden’s strongest moment was countering Trump’s claim that he was the “least racist person in the room” who had done more for black Americans than any president since Abraham Lincoln.

Donna Brazile, former acting chairman of the Democratic National Committee and now a Fox News commentator, admitted that “this was not the Donald Trump of Twitter, okay, amen.”

“The tone was different, but still it was Donald Trump who refuses to release his taxes, claiming once again that he has an audit, what are you hiding?” she said.

“The second thing is, he said he had a health care plan. Well, where is it? It’s been 10 years. I think the most important thing Joe Biden said was ‘I couldn’t pass it in Congress’ – well that’s deadlock. Whether you are a Republican or a Democratic president, the American people are tired of stagnation. “

Conservative commentator Brit Hume said that Trump “maybe gave his best performance in a debate, but I thought the vice president fought him by at least a tie.”

“Trump was most effective when he demanded why Biden hadn’t done all the great things that he promised to do,” he said.

“Biden held up well, I think he failed sometimes, but he didn’t have a bad time.”

CNN host Jake Tapper scoffed at Trump’s claim of racism, saying he was “pretty sure Kristen Welker is less racist than Donald Trump.”

Tapper argued that Trump didn’t talk enough about the economy and was instead “in Breitbart land talking about laptops.”

CNN political correspondent Abby Phillip said there was a “key moment that really encapsulates” that Trump doesn’t understand how to talk about the coronavirus pandemic.

“He kept repeating that we are ‘learning to live with it,'” he said.

“And Joe Biden came back and said, ‘Actually, we’re dying with it.’ I think that was the key moment. The president just wants to focus on reopening, he doesn’t want to acknowledge the sacrifices Americans have made. “

Rick Santorum, a former Republican politician and now a CNN commentator, argued that Trump “completely skewered Joe Biden.”

“You guys saw a very different debate, I think Trump was right in his game, I think he completely skewered Joe Biden,” he said. “Here’s Biden, looking at the camera, being a typical politician.”

Former Obama administration official Van Jones said Trump “did the best he could and it wasn’t good enough.”

“It was the same, just a little less volume, but no plans for the future,” he said.

“A big apology for a lot of failures and then hitting Joe Biden all the time. He sounded better, he looked better, but there was nothing.”

Jones said Trump “needed two things tonight,” neither of which happened.

“Trump needed not to sound like a crazy maniac, and he needed Joe Biden to completely bomb,” he said.

Republican Sen. Lindsay Graham said “she has never felt better than I do now with the re-election of President Trump.”

“The president shot himself tonight, Biden fought back,” he told Fox News host Sean Hannity.

“The surprising news for me tonight is that Vice President Biden is going to destroy the oil and gas industry in the United States, which came out of his own mouth.”

Hannity said Trump had “yelled to the left lie after lie after lie.”