President Donald Trump and Joe Biden faceoff tonight at 9 PM ET in the first debate moderated by Chris Wallace.
This should be delicious, especially since Biden cannot evade Wallace.
Trump and Biden will debate for 90 minutes.
Wallace chose six topics:
- Supreme Court nomination battle
- Wuhan coronavirus
- Economy
- Protests and riots
- Election integrity
- Candidates’ records
Race
President Trump to Joe Biden: "You have treated the Black community about as bad as anybody in this country." #Debates2020 pic.twitter.com/y8YnBBrHHS
— The Hill (@thehill) September 30, 2020
This was one of Trump's strongest answers #Debates2020 pic.twitter.com/s5fecdZ7ZP
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 30, 2020
Really surprising that Trump hasn't brought up the fact that Kamala promoted, and Biden staffers donated to, a bail fund that bailed out convicted domestic abusers and a man accused of sexually penetrating an 8-year-old girl #Debates2020
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) September 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1311124988754264066
President Trump has repeatedly condemned white supremacists. What a ridiculous question from Chris Wallace. #Debates2020 pic.twitter.com/kuTsHBcKKf
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/SebGorka/status/1311126628328714241
https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1311127445903474688
Chris Wallace: "Have you ever had the Demcoeratic mayor of Portland or the Democratic governor of Oregon and said, 'Hey you've got to stop this… Stop the days and months of violence in Portland'?"
Joe Biden: "I don't hold public office now."#Debates2020 pic.twitter.com/vZqrL7CXXG
— The Hill (@thehill) September 30, 2020
"The people of this country want and demand law and order and you are afraid to even say it," Pres. Trump says to Joe Biden, when asked by moderator Chris Wallace on why Americans should trust him on the issue of race. #Debates2020 https://t.co/sSZdfEIiT0 pic.twitter.com/qzgAb9eN1d
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) September 30, 2020
Hunter Biden
https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1311123070480982017
https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1311123354997452800
Taxes
President Trump: “It was the tax laws. I don’t want to pay tax. Before I came here I was a private developer. I was a private business people. Like every other private person, unless they’re stupid, they go through the laws.” #Debates2020 pic.twitter.com/RUL18mQBCo
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1311121880104001539
COVID
President @realDonaldTrump calls out Joe Biden for his position on the travel ban on China pic.twitter.com/aH4hhYDdAk
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) September 30, 2020
Biden refuses to answer Chris Wallace's question that, in so many words, wondered whether he and running mate Kamala Harris are being anti-vaxxers and purposefully dragging down American trust in a potential COVID vaccine. #Debates2020 pic.twitter.com/wL8xsEkozn
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 30, 2020
Asked why each should be trusted to handle the COVID-19 crisis, Biden criticizes Trump for downplaying the pandemic: “The president has no plan.”
Trump points to his travel restrictions, efforts on ventilators, PPE and developing a vaccine. https://t.co/5Bl4Ob3O2t #Debates2020 pic.twitter.com/ACYpvFVzYL
— ABC News (@ABC) September 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1311118420063252480
Pack the Court?
https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1311115627873140736
Election Consequences
Four. Years.
Pres. Trump responding to former Vice Pres. Biden's criticism on him trying to fill vacant Supreme Court seat: "I'm not elected for three years. I'm elected for four years." https://t.co/5Bl4Ob3O2t #Debates2020 pic.twitter.com/66g8a51BJ0
— ABC News (@ABC) September 30, 2020
Biden the Democratic Party?
President Trump: “Your party wants to go Socialist… and they’re going to dominate you, Joe. You know that.”
Joe Biden: “I am the Democratic Party right now.”
Trump: “Not according to Harris.”#Debates2020 pic.twitter.com/sYs0OSeobL
— The Hill (@thehill) September 30, 2020
Biden Not Opposed to Barrett??
The debate just started and Biden said he doesn’t oppose ACB for SCOTUS.
https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1311112287416209409
Biden says he's not opposed to Amy Coney Barrett. I don't think he knows what he's saying but we should still quote him on this. #Debates2020
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 30, 2020
Biden called Amy Coney Barrett “the Justice” and I like the sound of that.
— Eddie Zipperer (@EddieZipperer) September 30, 2020
It Begins
President Trump and former Vice President Biden take the stage at the first presidential debate. The candidates are foregoing the traditional handshake due to COVID-19. https://t.co/5Bl4Ob3O2t #Debates2020 pic.twitter.com/DU6F0f1snf
— ABC News (@ABC) September 30, 2020
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!5 minutes before Go Time.
Biden’s getting fitted with his Super-sized Depends, on the recommendation of Jerry Wadler. The Adderall and other drugs were given about 15 minutes ago, timed for maximum effect. The earpieces, specially made by Bond’s Q Branch, are already in place; make-up people disguising them now.
Interesting comment……
Bigly said:
“I’m in a house full of dems and they all think Biden is weak and pathetic
Trumps killing Biden”
I can’t help but feel this is like watching BMX racing, who’s gonna crash?
2 minutes is just enough time to rehearse a line and move on to the next question, it’s a pathetic excuse for a ‘debate’. Someone needs to run the debate commission and give us some Lincoln Douglas style substantive policy discussion, not this made for tv rubbish.
I’ll enjoy listening to / reading the reactions after the fact but I don’t think I can stand to watch it.
So that’s how they’ll get Biden through the debate, no sound.
I don’t like that I can’t see any American flags on the stage.
The Don is rattling Old Joe.
It’s an absolutely sure bet.
No matter what actually happens on the stage, the media will declare Biden the winner.
15 minutes and Creepy Joe already lost it.
“Will you shut up, man!”
Joe’s getting thrown off his word salad game.
Well the first segment was …not quite what we might call dignified.
Trump has to debate 2 people and one is drooling
Wht did you expect
He’s not Romney and he’s not going to be Candy Crawlied!
Joe’s learning the hard way that his 2012 technique (debate with Ryan) of snidely smiling at Trump’s haymakers isn’t working. Joe’s wilting.
Getting to point of Sundowner Joe’s longest public appearance in months.
I don’t have the heart to watch. So, Mr. Biden has tripped up already?
The Don zings Joe with “smarts.”
Joe’s being embarrassed. And he knows it.
Did Joe just adjust the volume control on his earpiece when he reached inside his coat jacket?
“China ate your lunch”
Comments from around the web…..
bessie2003 said:
I believe I understand what President Trump is doing….interrupting Biden’s practiced train of thought and interjecting the beloved dicta of the Left and thus causing Biden to disown it, it throws Biden off his timing and exposes to the Left that Biden is a liar when he agreed to Bernie’s compact.
Wallace is just a seat filler, pretty sure President Trump is owning the stage, and even Wallace is donning a combative attitude in his questions to Biden.
Dang, gotta go make some popcorn!”
ivehadit said:
Clown!!!!! Oh my goodness! He just called the president a clown!
Game over!!!
The two things I’m coming away with Trump brought up Hunter but Giden brought up Burisma.
Biden is addressing Chris and the audience. Trump is addressing the audience and Biden.
Despite his constant lying, I think Biden is doing really well, probably looking better than Trump.
The Don is like the Tasmanian Devil with a buzz saw with a 15″ blade.
“Bidrn is winning the debate! This… is CNN.”
Did Biden really just say that Trump, the guy with the working class vernacular who was never accepted by the NYC or DC elites ‘looks down on people who are different’?
Lots of lies coming out of Sundowner Joe’s mouth
Whatever they gave Biden before the debates is wearing off.
Good evening, Miss Leslie. What you said confirms my decision not to watch.
Think of the job his staff had to do… they didn’t just have to get him “up” for the debate, they had to ensure he could remember all the canned statements.
The fact that he didn’t start babbling inchorently (more than he did) has erased some concerns from his base that he isn’t all there.
His base probably never cared that he’s not all there but it’s important for the swing voters to realize.
Biden – I am the democrat party!!
Wallace- Did you ask or advise the d gov of Oregon or the d mayor of Portland to call up the Nat Guard to put an end to the violence?
Biden – I don’t hold public office..
Joe, when you’re on the defensive, you’re losing.
DJT just hammered Joe with a haymaker over the courts, regarding the 150 (more or less) vacancies in the judiciary when they left office. “You shouldn’t leave any vacancies when you leave office!” Goes on to say if you do that you are not fit to be President. Joe didn’t utter a word…
Joe’s go-to word for the night, “Look.”
At least he avoided the childish “look-it!”
Wallace is the pathetic shill for the left we knew he would be.
And tonight’s Debate Loser is lifetime registered Democrat Party member Chris Wallace!
Ha! Chris might have just dunked Biden with Green New Deal.
Biden speaks to poll tested and emotionally driven ideas. Trump is Trump. Trump needs to do better, even if he’s so right. Hopefully, people will see who is competent, and who is blowing smoke.
Oh you mean ideas that have no validity.
Meant they are short on specifics and geared to push buttons. You would have to be more clear, however.
Trump is really taking the game to Old Joe, and it’s clear that Joe is really uncomfortable with the attacks. But this is fair game. Trump’s not making up the charges he’s leveling at Joe.
Joe’s been on a “public payroll” all his adult life, and been on the graft payroll too which is what got him wealthy. Trump worked; Biden skimmed.
Biden stayed awake and didn’t sound like Ron Paul having a stroke on air… so the media will declare Biden at least at a tie.
Trump is strong in fighting dirty and not abiding by the rules, interrupting Biden which was clear to get him to lose his train of thought (not judging, but that’s what he tried to). Joe was fighting above his weight and did it.
Biden’s pharmacist was the clear winner.
Biden did so much more than stay awake throughout so he’ll have a field day with generous mainstream media coverage. Trump was forced on the defensive throughout since Biden streamed constant lies and/or platitudes, and the moderator mainly took Democratic talking points as the assumption for many of his questions. This caused Trump to have to protest frequently (and rightly so) and made him look bad. Biden looked more presidential. I hate saying that.
Virtually all of us here, and myself included, want to say President Trump won the debate (even before it took place). It was a 2 on 1 fight, and it was a no decision.
The tag team of Biden-Wallace helped bring to rattle and rile Trump. Neither Trump nor Biden projected an air of decorum, composure, or “being Presidential.” Wallace was the little weasel in the fight, trying to trip and distract Trump from behind while his teammate was in the ring doing the fighting.
I hoped for more from Trump in the way of being Presidential and was disappointed there – minus 1. I expected Wallace to be a weasel-faced anti-Trumper narcissist and I wasn’t disappointed – plus 1. I had no expectations from Biden (is that his name? He’s a liar and a plagiarizer, for starters) and he delivered a nothing burger – score 0.
So in a 2 on 1 fight this judge scored -1, +1, and 0. A total of 0, and no one wins. Not Trump, not Biden, and not the country. (Maybe Wallace, but winning at being a suppository isn’t really winning, is it?)
“This should be delicious, especially since Biden cannot evade Wallace.”
Biden didn’t need to evade Wallace. Biden didn’t want to dodge Wallace. Why would he when Wallace was there to prop Biden up.
Mail voting: The rule is that ballots must be postmarked before the close of the polls on election day. Period. In most places the post offices close their “public window” at around 5pm, local. Mail ballots should be in the POST OFFICE, not the corner mailbox, on the Monday before, if they will bear the proper postmark.
I can drop my various payments into the mail, usually the drive-by box outside the PO and 3 days later the recipient half a continent away is thanking me for my payment. Its been that way for years.
So. Any ballot received after close-of-business at the election office is not counted. Right into the shredder. If a person is not interested enough in voting to make sure their ballot gets counted, they don’t deserve to vote.
First thought:
1) Chris Wallace had absolutely NO control of this debate. His questions, with two exceptions, were couched in favor of Joe Biden and, again with two exceptions, he consistently failed to force Biden to answer the question posed.
2) Biden, held up well, physically. But, he was also obviously scripted. He seemed to have a real problem with responding off script. And, he resorted to personal name calling.
3) We still have NO idea what Biden’s position on anything is.
4} Trump did an adequate job of defending his record. But, it was impossible for him to put forward any of his future vision, in any detail, when he had to spend so much time rebutting Biden’s unsupported claims.
It was like watching an UFC fight. No knockout. Each candidate’s supporters will see a win for their man. But, the results were mixed.
My takeaway:
1. Wallace wasn’t 100% in the tank for Biden but the phrasing of some questions revealed his bias. He did try, unsuccessfully to disguise it, so points for that.
2. Biden was ok when he was needling Trump or regurgitate talking points. Many times he went off the rails a bit.
3. After Biden’s display tonight I don’t want to hear about Trump and ‘the dignity of the office’ or ‘respect for norms’ to the end of time.
4. Trump visibly restrained himself from punching Biden, at least to me, so that’s a win for Trump on that point. He didn’t let Biden’s prattling get to him after that early moment.
5. Trump had much better, funnier one line zingers when interrupting Biden. Biden came across as a condescending ahole, IMO.
Hmmmm…..
Tl Howard
Joe loses here because the suburban moms that the Dems so much want to get to vote for them are SICK of the racial diversity mantra, the identity politics.