Pros and cons of everything
Trump’s Pros
Many of Trump’s defenders sought to portray his performance that way on Thursday. Many claimed that he had triumphed over Mr. Biden, seizing on the former vice president’s statement about phasing out fossil fuel use as a devastating misstep.
Republican strategists also saw something to like in Mr. Trump’s response on how he plans to handle the growing number of coronavirus cases across the country, revealing the deep divide between many conservative supporters of the president, who want a generally more hands-off approach from the government, and most other Americans, who believe in taking steps such as mandating mask-wearing in public.
One main point that his voters loved is his stance on the economy. Trump talked about growing the economy during Covid while Biden wouldn’t rule out shutting it down when cases flare. Trump said that would cause prices to be driven up and restrictions on development to happen.
Biden’s Pros
Biden emotionally responded to Trump’s horrific child-separation policy at our borders, a policy that has literally lost the parents of hundreds of detained children, with officials unable now to reunite families. His horror is our horror, and I’d bet that for suburban women, that really resonated.
Mr. Biden, for his part, stuck to the core of the argument that has propelled his campaign from the start, denouncing Mr. Trump as a divisive and unethical leader who has botched the federal response to a devastating public-health crisis.
Biden swatted away the allegations, saying he’d never taken a dime of foreign money; that everything his son did was on the level; calling the allegations a Russian disinformation campaign.
TrumP’s Cons
Trump boasted about a Corona virus cure in a few weeks, then immediately took that back and said, hopefully, by the end of the year. He then ended it by talking about his own run in with the virus. The president’s words felt disrespectful. Imagine how many of those 220,000 lives may have been saved if those Americans had “Trump-care”.
Nobody has done more for the Black community than Donald Trump,” he claimed, with the exception of maybe Abraham Lincoln. Of course, he entirely ignored Democratic President Lyndon Johnson, who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968.”I am the least racist person in this room,” Trump also said. Never mind the Black journalist, Kristen Welker, who moderated the debate. Trump has a decades-long history of racism, including the full-page ad he took out against the Central Park Five, five innocent Black boys falsely accused of assault and rape and him trying to delay Obama’s presidency by staying his birth certificate was forged.
Biden’s Cons
Biden was pressed on his position on fracking. During a Democratic presidential primary debate, he fought off attacks on his position by saying, “No new fracking.” His campaign then sought to clarify that Biden meant no new fracking permits in federal areas, while allowing existing fracking operations to continue. But Trump and Republicans have cast this as Biden being in favor of banning fracking altogether.
Biden didn’t provide persuasive answers when asked repeatedly why he didn’t take action on his lofty goals throughout his nearly half a century in office. And when asked why he didn’t enact criminal justice reform during that time, he paused before blaming Republicans
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Thomas,Ken. “The Final Presidential Debate: The Moments That Mattered.” The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones & Company, 23 Oct. 2020, www.wsj.com/articles/the-final-presidential-debate-the-moments-that-mattered-11603422757.
Walsh, Deirdre. “Trump And Biden Had A Real Debate, And 4 Other Takeaways.” NPR, NPR, 23 Oct. 2020, www.npr.org/2020/10/23/926844747/trump-and-biden-had-a-real-debate-and-4-other-takeaways.
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