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After months of launching all kinds of accusations and invectives, it is time for a face-to-face confrontation: Donald Trump and Joe Biden meet Tuesday night in debate, 35 days before the US presidential election, in a very high voltage, according to AFP.
The first Trump-Biden election debate, watched by millions
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TO UPDATE 00:00 Donald Trump and Joe Biden arrived in Cleveland, Ohio on Tuesday for their first debate in an electric atmosphere. “He’s ready!” Said a senior Trump campaign official aboard Air Force One shortly before the president landed, followed less than two hours by his Democratic rival, according to AFP.
Tens of millions of Americans will have their eyes fixed on their screens for this first debate between the 74-year-old Republican president and the 77-year-old Democratic former vice president.
While their impact on voting often remains limited, these meetings are the culmination of the election campaign, since the first televised tête-à-tête held 60 years ago in Chicago between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.
In Cleveland, Ohio, a key state that could tip the balance one way or another, the two will meet on stage for 90 minutes, under the watchful eye of Fox News reporter Chris Wallace, a respected figure in both camps.
Abandoned in the polls for weeks, Donald Trump hopes he will return a good night, or a spectacularly wrong step from his Democratic opponent.
A new poll released by the Washington Post-ABC News on Tuesday speaks of a major defeat for Trump in the state of Pennsylvania, which he won in 2016.
With the November 3 elections approaching, he fears becoming the first president not to be reelected after more than a quarter of a century (the 1992 defeat of Bill Clinton by George HW Bush).
Covid-19, the Supreme Court, the economy, racial issues, the balance sheets of the two candidates as well as the “integrity of the ballot” will be among the topics of debate.
Following the explosive revelations from the New York Times, Donald Trump’s legacy and his tax situation obviously should also show up in potentially explosive exchanges.
But the little phrases and the body language of the two men will be carefully scrutinized.
For weeks, the White House leader poked fun at “Sleepy Joe’s” mental and physical abilities, portraying him as a puppet manipulated by the “radical left.”
Everything separates the two septuagenarian candidates. Donald Trump won in 2016 and created the biggest surprise in modern political history.
Entering politics half a century ago, Senator Joe Biden, then vice president, hopes that the third run for the White House (he already ran for Democratic mayor in 1988 and 2008) will be the right one.
The power of the former Republican businessman? His ability to surprise, break codes, impose his own rules, his own style.
“He is a debater, there is no real recipe for dealing with him,” Aaron Kall, a professor at the University of Michigan and author of a book called “The Donald Debate,” told AFP.
At Joe Biden’s camp, we rely on his expertise, his sense of empathy.
“Americans will see what a president is like,” said his wife, Jill Biden. “Calm, steady, strong, resilient,” according to AFP’s analysis.
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