The felony conviction of a onetime POTUS (and presumptive GOP nominee) is unprecedented. Be that as it may, Trump currently holds a narrow lead over Biden in national polling data — 41.1% versus Biden’s 40.9%. (For comparison’s sake: Biden led Trump by seven percentage points — 50.2% versus Trump’s 43.2% — on the eve of the first presidential debate of the 2020 election cycle.)
The hosts of this presidential debate did a disservice to Americans. Allowing Trump to continually lie and bully without fact-checking real time doesn’t give the debate any real meaning. Just because one person has a louder voice but most of his comments were untruths is not serving the voting public.
Biden looked old, weak and feeble.
Joe Biden did not perform well in the debate, but he did stand up for his accomplishments and for America and the American people. Donald Trump, however, put on his usual and familiar performance, being belligerent, hostile and full of lies. Very few, if any, of the statements he put forth so forcefully bore any relationship to the truth, and Biden called him out on it frequently. However, neither acquitted themselves as well as major candidates for the office of the President of the United states should and I was sorely disappointed. I also felt the moderators allowed Trump more time to talk and rebut Biden’s statements but missed several opportunities to allow Biden to rebut Trump’s lies, although Biden certainly tried when he was allowed to speak.
I agree that the moderators seem to have given Trump more time to talk and to rebut President Biden’s statements.
CNN better than I thought they would be, so appreciated
Pres. Biden should step aside and allow someone younger be the Democratic nominee.
Biden had a bad cold. His doctor should probably have forbidden him to attend the debate, but that would have looked bad, too. I know I wouldn’t have been able to stand there and debate for 90 minutes if I was sick.
Joe was literally sick. Unfortunately, that cold made him look frail. And low energy. Not the look you want as an elderly POTUS who already has detractors about his age.
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That said? Trump only looked better because he evaded EVERY question, devolving into golf, and lied all the way through with ZERO pushback from the so-called moderators.
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If it were a perfect world, neither of these guys would be the candidates.
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But they are.
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So, I look at it like this: Ask myself the ONE key question when I am in the voting booth: Would our nation survive another Biden term? Would our nation survive another Trump term?
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Then vote accordingly. There is no magical replacement coming for either, so – to me – that is what it will boil down to.
Your article is very biased. I notice there is nothing negative about Biden. And there is plenty you could have listed. Biden is not a convicted yet but there is still time!
Trump should not be running for president again. He is a criminal; a thief, a liar, a scammer and, no doubt, a murderer. He belongs behind bars. But Biden is no longer qualified to run this country. He had a business to step down. Even so, I will NOT cast my vote for Trump. May he rot in jail!
This was a Presidential debate? OMG, thought it was a pilot for a new sitcom on ABC called “Don and Uncle Joe”. Really thought one of these guys was going to yell,
“Lier, lier, pants on fire!”
For being the greatest County in the world, this is the best we have to run it? Shh 🙄
Absolutely WILD to me that anyone would think Trump won. That’s just laughable.
But even he did, that’s no reason to vote for him FFS.
Anyone that votes for Trump at this point is a joke.
If you thought Biden had the more impressive debate showing, you are deluding yourself. He’s still the better choice for President over Trump, but he did not win the debate. Either party could run virtually anybody else in place of Trump and Biden and have that person be the clear favorite in the race, but the Democrats should actually pull the trigger and Biden should step aside because there is a high likelihood of a second Trump term if he does not.
Trump spewed lies all through the debate. Without fact checking the debate was pointless I love CNN but my biggest dissapointment was CNN
When I was working inside Space Command’s missile warning and space surveillance businesses in the late 1960s, CNN was the most trusted news agency in the business. Unfortunately, they left the world of journalism for the world of liberal commentary. So, I had very low expectations of them last night. Nevertheless, they blew away my poor expectations to where I had to vote EXCELLENT in your poll! They performed far beyond my expectations and treated both candidates very well. Chances that will cause me to return to my feeling of the 1960s for them is very slim, but they did well on the Debate
Well, that’s quite something since CNN didn’t even exist until 1980.
Thanks for asking. The economy doesn’t change over night. Covid was miss managed by Trump down playing it. We had to work remotely, then a massive amount of people buy and sell their homes to accommodate home offices and remote freedom. And then cause the worst inflation rise, 2022 at 9%. Real estate is a primary driver.
This is not Biden’s fault. They have to raise interest rates to slow it down. Politics are complicated and shouldn’t have to do with speech impediments and sweet talking. Hear it like it is and fact check. I think you will find Trump failed at gaining our trust. Can we cut the mic when he avoids the questions again?
I don’t think Trump answered any questions. Trump was interested in saying millions and billions. But no true statements.
It’s a sad state of affairs when two political party’s can’t come up with better nominees than this.
Moderators were good but when Trump started rambling they should’ve cut him off and said “please answer the question”
How about you do some fact checking next time? You can easily get the facts pertinent to the questions you plan to ask. That way you could have facts to guide your follow up questions rather than just allowing blatant lies over and over again. You did the country a grave disservice by allowing these lies.
The fact that these two are the choices we have tells you everything you need to know about the state of our country. We are in trouble folks.
Unfortunately Jake Tapper and Dana Bash did a very poor job of moderating. They should have reigned in Trump, in answering the questions put forth, rather than going off on tangents, or trying to backtrack to the previous question. They allowed Trump to take over the entire debate with rhetoric, incredible lies and non-sequential answers. Their lackluster involvement showed sad performance for CNN’s choice picks for moderators. This is just plain disappointing.
The mediators should have stop Trump of his lies.
Trump and Biden both lost! It’s now quite clear to me that neither major candidate is fit to be President. Despite other positives and negatives, they are simply too old. Neither is sharp enough. Top Democrat string pullers need to have a serious heart-to-heart with Biden when he gets back to Washington. If he can’t be reasoned with and doesn’t agree to step down as the 2024 Democrat candidate, the party must ignore his wishes and get on with what they have to do. Ideally, they need a candidate on the sunny side of 60 who is smart, doesn’t have any obvious baggage and is attractive to Democrats, Independents and those Republicans who can vote for a Democrat without holding their noses. Goals for choosing the candidate shouldn’t be governed strictly by party ideology, but by finding a Democrat who can get elected. Anything less and Democrats will hand the election to Trump on a silver platter, as they did in 2016.
I doubt there are enough Republicans in a position to depose Trump who have honor and courage adequate to try it.
That was the worst debate I have ever seen on my 38 years on this planet called Earth..
I’m not a fan of Biden or Trump. However, based on last night, I could never vote for Biden again. Once was enough and the debate just reconfirmed that I can’t do it this time. The only saving grace would be if the Dems put up a different person. I’d even take Harris over Biden at this point!