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The time has come for the long-awaited television debates in the US presidential campaign. The incumbent Donald Trump and his challenger Joe Biden will meet tonight (3:00 am EDT) in the city of Cleveland. The six themes were established a week ago. The “New York Times” report on Trump’s finances, which is currently heating up spirits, is more likely to make it to the 90-minute television duel via detours.
However, at least one topic could give Biden a good opportunity to ask Trump about his low tax payments and alleged debts of $ 421 million. Another current point: the replacement in the Supreme Court. Trump nominated conservative attorney Amy Coney Barrett as the successor to the late liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Biden demands that the winner of the November 3 presidential election fill the position.
The debate will be moderated by television journalist Chris Wallace. The 72-year-old is currently on camera with Trump’s friend, Fox News, but previously worked for NBC and ABC for a long time. Their goal is to be “as invisible as possible,” says Wallace. He wanted the candidates to discuss the central issues, “so that people at home have an idea of why they want to vote for one of them.”
“You don’t know how to debate the facts”: Joe Biden on Donald Trump.
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Other topics include the crown crisis, election security, the state of the American economy, and riots in cities on the brink of protests against racism and police violence. Both candidates have often spread their messages about this in recent weeks. It should be more exciting how the two face off in the televised duel. Trump used to call Biden “sleepy Joe.” He claimed that the 77-year-old was not particularly smart at best and made his fans laugh with the saying, “He doesn’t even know he’s alive.”
But according to media reports, some on Trump’s campaign team suspect that the 74-year-old president has done his opponent a favor. He left the table so low that Biden can outmaneuver Trump supporters with minimal effort. Trump remarked in recent days: Biden is a professional who has been proven in debates for decades (“They do nothing else in the Senate”). On the other hand, he has little experience with something like that.
Exchange of blows before the debate
In a kind of remote duel two weeks ago, question-and-answer sessions in which candidates asked voters questions, Biden made a solid figure. He showed more empathy and responded more specifically to individual questions, while Trump broke down his known positions into large sections. His greatest strength in dueling with Hillary Clinton four years ago, however, was also more the art of throwing a sassy and witty comment.
Patriotism is a must: set the stage for the Cleveland speech duel.
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It was not clear how intensely the candidates are preparing for the debate. Hill’s website reported that Biden was acting in disputes with former chief of staff Ron Klain in the role of Trump. Trump let it be known that he was speaking more generally about answers on the issues with his advisers.
There was also one or another verbal exchange of blows in the days leading up to the duel. “He doesn’t know how to debate the facts, he’s not that smart,” Biden said of Trump. The president repeatedly requested a drug test from the candidates, because Biden’s behavior allegedly indicates performance-enhancing substances. A Biden campaign manager eventually responded: “If the president thinks he can better present his case with urine, he doesn’t need to force himself.” (sda)
