Second Presidential debate - a calm, masterful Donald Trump made mincemeat of Joe Biden
From the article, A calm, masterful Donald Trump made mincemeat of Joe Biden, by Andrea Widburg, American Thinker, October 23, 2020:
The moment Donald Trump and Joe Biden appeared on the stage, Trump was in control. He looked robust, while Biden appeared frail and slow. Trump’s dominance extended beyond looks. He ably defended his record against attacks from both Biden and the moderator, Kristen Welker. He also politely, but insistently, pressed Biden on his decades of failure, the damage he caused to the black community, and his corrupt dealings with his son, Hunter. It was a rout.
Those expecting Trump to be a bit of a madman, as he was during the first debate, were disappointed. Trump, having achieved his goal during the first debate of forcing Biden to alienate some of his base, no longer needed the madman tactic. This time, Trump was charming, polite, and endlessly upbeat about America’s prospects. Biden, meanwhile, literally said that America was “about to go into a dark winter. A dark winter.”
As expected, Welker was a biased moderator. To her credit, she asked Biden about China and Ukraine, although she left the topic as quickly as possible....
Even more irritating than the premise of her questions, though, was Welker’s determination to cut Trump’s rebuttals off immediately while letting Biden answer at length. Indeed, when Trump reminded Biden that Hunter walked out of China with $1.5 billion and started discussing the newly released emails, Welker frantically interrupted Trump to ensure that Biden wouldn’t have to try to answer the question....
Joe made it clear he wants to pathologize America permanently as a place of ebbing and flowing lockdowns and government dependency. Trump, however, wants America back on her feet and pointedly said we can’t all live like Joe, either locked in a basement or getting lots of money from unknown sources...
Probably the biggest hit that Biden took, though, was on the subject of energy independence and fracking. Showing how completely he is under the control of the AOC branch of the Democrat party, Joe said that he would close down the oil industry... Biden also outright lied when he denied that he’d promise to end fracking...
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The first Presidential debate: The Trump debate decoded: He won, and he won big, by Andrea Widburg, American Thinker, October 1, 2020:
With 24 hours having passed since the first presidential debate, it's becoming clear that Trump won in a big way. It wasn't an apparent victory, but it was a real one: he showed his base and ordinary Americans that he will always fight while forcing Biden to disavow both his hard-left base and the last of the old-fashioned Democrats who still support him...
The world feels unstable and often very scary. Voters viscerally understand that Trump will be their champion. He will fight to the death to defend them....
Trump also managed to expose what a nasty jerk Biden is. That matters. With Trump, we're used to it. From Biden, who poses as "Mr. Nice Everyman," it's jarring and ugly....
Trump got Biden to say: "The party is me. Right now, I am the Democratic party." The Democrat party is a doddering old man who everyone knows was hopped up on Adderall to handle the debate.
On the subject of socialist medicine, "There is no manifesto..." Biden just disavowed the Democrat Party platform, which Bernie Sanders's team wrote. It's filled with socialist ideas.
"The Green New Deal is not my plan." First, this is a lie. Second, this is an atom bomb against the base, as it would be if Trump were to tell his base, "I'm going to tear down the wall."...
Your mission, which I hope you accept, is to go to the polls on November 3. None of this mail-in stuff. Vote in person, every one of you, and make it a straight Republican ticket from Trump down to the local dog-catcher.
Here's Why Trump's Final Debate Was a Game-Changer, by Larry O'Connor, October 23, 2020.