Former Vice President Joe Biden enters tonight’s first Presidential debate in Cleveland against President Donald Trump in a position of strength. He is far ahead in most state polls, including in the Midwest where Hillary Clinton lost the election in 2016.
Biden is the middle class guy who has had struggles and tragedies in his life, much like the vast majority of Americans. He possesses naturally great compassion, empathy, decency, and tons of government experience as US Senator for 36 years and as one of the two best Vice Presidents in American history, alongside Walter Mondale.
Biden comes in with public opinion polls showing great strength for him among college educated voters of both genders; suburban women; African Americans; Latinos except for Cubans; Asian Americans; Jews; Social Justice Catholics; mainline Protestants; moderates; Independents; young voters; and a small sliver of Trump voters in 2016 who realize Donald Trump is a phony billionaire and bully!
Putting Biden in the Oval Office will give us a President with more background knowledge and expertise than any President when he entered the Presidency—more than Lyndon B. Johnson or George H. W. Bush.
Biden knows world leaders and can restore US foreign policy so that foreign allies can against trust our government.
Biden can restore much of the damage done to our domestic infrastructure and our government agencies that are so necessary to continue the advancements of the New Deal, Great Society, and the later accomplishments of Presidents of both parties from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama!
We will have a President who does not lie 20,000 times in three and a half years;
who will not ignore medicine and science;
who will pay his fair share of taxes;
who will not cheat on his wife with other women;
who will pick judges who understand that originalism is the wrong approach to law;
who will work to cross the aisle when possible, instead of constant insults and bullying of opponents and critics;
who will have a Vice President, Kamala Harris, who gives us confidence should there ever be an emergency;
who will restore faith in our basic values of democracy and freedom;
who will bring back honor and decency to the Oval Office;
and who will support total exposure of all crimes committed by the present incumbent of the White House!
I wish they would ditch the audience. People yelling, cheering, booing is annoying.
I would expect that they would ask for no response from the comparatively small audience, but we shall see!
Biden Isn’t “Sleepy†and He’s a Pretty Good Debater
Just ask Paul Ryan and Sarah Palin. But Trump craziness and bad moderating is a lot to overcome.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/09/29/biden-isnt-sleepy-and-hes-a-pretty-good-debater/
Hillary Was Leading in Pennsylvania. What’s Different This Time?
In 2020, Trump is more of a known quantity and he’s facing a better-liked opponent.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/09/29/hillary-was-leading-in-pennsylvania-whats-different-this-time/
Biden/DNC Twitter account that will be fact checking Trump’s lies –
https://twitter.com/truth
Watching the debate. All Trump does is interrupt and his behavior is horrendous. This is comical, what a buffoon.
Biden needs to stop ceding turf to Trump’s bloviating.
He is probably better off letting Trump talk, and not getting into a shouting match which could set off stuttering. Be presidential.
I tried but I’m not gonna make it through this with that tangerine tinted taint interrupting every statement.
Wallace has to nip this Trump interrupting quick. That said, it is making Trump look like a quarrelsome child to anyone not in the cult…
Terrible format, terrible moderator. Can’t watch.
Agreed. This is unwatchable. Trump won’t shut up.
Trump is spewing nothing but bs, but his intent is to clearly keep talking over Biden and try and throw him off so he can pretend that Biden is not mentally equipped to do the job. That was apparent in the first five minutes. And it led to a rocky beginning.
But Biden is getting better as the debate goes on.
Next time, kill their mikes.