Donald Trump and Joe Biden in the final debate before the US presidential election.

Of: Johan edgar

Published: October 23, 2020 at 05.38
Updated: October 23, 2020 at 06.09

It was the candidates’ last chance to take command of the final battle.

The debate heated up when Joe Biden mentioned President Rudy Giuliani’s “friend”.

Then Donald Trump had the opportunity to speak about Hunter Biden’s business in Ukraine and China.

– Your son and his brothers are like a vacuum cleaner. They suck money, he said.

Donald Trump resumed his tactics from the 2016 election campaign. He then went on the frontal attack on Hillary Clinton in the first debate, but was more restrained in the final round.

The final debate in Nashville last night started almost as a Swedish party leader debate. In the first question about the corona pandemic, the candidates drew their usual answers.

President Trump said millions of people would have died had he not taken such decisive action, including stopping flights from China. Joe Biden said Donald Trump handled the pandemic worse than the leaders of any other country in the world.

Photo: Patrick Semansky / AP

The final debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden began calmly.

Warm up on Hunter

But the tone was relatively friendly. And the debate committee’s decision to mute a microphone when it was the other candidate’s turn to speak meant there were fewer interruptions and opportunities to talk to each other.

Only when the debate was about national security and the intrusion of other countries into the electoral movement did it begin to heat up properly. According to many observers, Trump’s tactic in the debate would be to try to lure Joe Biden’s son Hunter and his alleged shady deals in Ukraine and China whenever he got the chance.

In the past week, New York Post publications about emails and other documents that will come from a hard drive belonging to Hunter Biden have become explosive in conservative circles. Other newspapers such as the Washington Post and the New York Times have published information that Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who gave the information to the New York Post, may have been used in a Russian disinformation campaign.

Giuliani attacked

But it was Joe Biden who invited the fight that followed when Donald Trump had the opportunity to attack his family. Joe Biden said the Russians prefer Trump to stay because he does not challenge Putin. In connection with that, he mentioned the “friend” of President Rudy Giuliani, whom he called the puppet of Russia.

“They feed him things that are not true,” said Joe Biden.

Donald Trump responded by addressing Hunter Biden’s “hard drive from hell” and the Biden family business, according to the New York Post.

– He is the vice president of the United States and his son, his brother and his other brother are getting rich. They are like a vacuum cleaner. They suck money, he said.

Donald Trump also said Joe Biden needs “to give an explanation to the American people” and that “Russia has paid him a lot of money and probably still will.”

Business in China

Joe Biden responded by saying that he never took a penny from abroad.

– Do we know that this president has a secret bank account in China, does business in China and talks to me about receiving money? in Joe Biden.

– China is building a new path to a golf course that you have abroad, so what is happening? Publish your statements or stop talking about corruption.

Political experts on CNN, the president’s favorite object of hatred, agreed that Donald Trump did his best debating effort to date and was more civilized than last time. But that Joe Biden was stable enough not to destroy his leadership, and that the debate will not change much of the dynamics of the election campaign.

The British BBC has their analysis ready: no one got a knockout, but the silent button won big.

Published: October 23, 2020 at 05.38

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