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GREENSBURG / NEW ALEXANDRIA (Dagbladet): The first presidential debate on Wednesday night Norwegian time was massacred by almost everyone except Trump himself.
Most commentators believe that Trump’s endless interruptions and rude behavior caused the debate to completely derail.
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What has elicited some of the strongest reactions is how Trump, despite a very explicit opportunity, once again refrained from clearly distancing himself from right-wing extremists. Rather, he made sure the far-right group Proud Boys cheered after the debate.
– Proud guys, keep calm and be prepared, Trump said during the debate on the group that has been involved in violent incidents in the United States recently.
The next day, Trump claimed he had no knowledge of the Proud Boys.
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On the rails
Biden, for his part, tried to get back to normal with a train ride from Cleveland and through parts of western Pennsylvania. With several stops en route, this is the first, more traditional form of election campaign that Biden has conducted since the pandemic broke out.
Before the train ride, he took a firm stand against Trump’s approach to right-wing extremists.
– That the president of the United States has behaved as he did, I think it is a shame for the country. I hope the American people, and the voters who have not made up their minds, will try to decide whether each of us has an answer to their concerns and actually let us speak, Biden said at a press conference in Cleveland ahead of the 200-mile trip. .
In Alliance City, Trump continued to criticize Trump’s approach to right-wing extremist forces in the United States.
– Use a dog whistle to attract supporters of white power. My message to the Proud Boys and all other white power groups is that they must shut down. This is not who we are as Americans, says Biden.
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Will debate more
Several have argued that Biden should refrain from participating in the two remaining presidential debates in Miami and Nashville because they fear Trump will continue to act in the same destructive manner. But Biden says he looks forward to the discussions and hopes that debate participants can answer questions without interruption.
– Keep calm and prepare
– I hope there is an opportunity for the debate committee to monitor the opportunity to answer questions without interruption, says Biden.
Shortly after, the committee organizing the debates announced that they would make changes.
Biden is known as a huge train enthusiast. He has commuted by train between Washington DC and his home in Wilmington, Delaware for decades. Therefore, you probably felt very comfortable starting the sprint in the election campaign in this way.
– The debates and the elections will be about you, and all the people I grew up with in Scranton, and all the people who make a difference. Does the president understand everything that is happening? Why are so many people passing by? The question is if you see where you are and where you want to be. Cares? Biden asked rhetorically before boarding the train.
– An avalanche of lies
– Flau
At several of the stops, hundreds of Biden supporters and some Trump supporters had turned up.
-I am ashamed on behalf of my country, Ed Kuhn tells Dagbladet about the presidential debate.
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He has arrived in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and is to cheers when Biden’s train arrives at the station in the small town.
Pennsylvania is one of the auspicious states Trump won in 2016, but where Biden is now clearly in the top spot in the polls.
Kuhn wears a face mask with a cartoon of Biden and vice president candidate Kamala Harris. Trump has little left.
– I think it was a disaster in the debate. It was an embarrassment to the presidency, Kuhn said.
– So much right-wing extremism
– Yesterday he refused to distance himself from the right-wing extremists. Never before have I seen so much right-wing extremism in America. There used to be prejudices, but people knew it was inappropriate to say so. Now Trump has given all these people the right to come out and say “white power,” Debbie Tresade tells Dagbladet.
After the debate, she and her friend Pat O’Neill decided to come and go on Biden’s train ride. They both wear Biden effects.
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– I want to go back to the time when I could wake up in the morning and not have a train coming my way, says O’Neill.
– Joe is a decent person. And just being a decent human being is what we need. The soul of the country is at stake, Tresade says.
George Carusno also makes it clear where he comes across a large poster in which Trump is endowed with a Hitler mustache under the words “Sieg Heil.”
– Biden represents the United States as it should be, Carusno explains to Dagbladet.
Sent by god
– When I was little
– The debate showed the weaknesses in the United States at this time. We fight as children and we don’t show ourselves as strong America, we can be if Biden wins, Biden supporter McKenzie Spahn tells Dagbladet.
He really expects a new president after the November 3 elections.
“I hope we can make a difference so that everyone stops laughing, and we can be America as we were under Obama and previous presidents,” Spahn said.
