Trump v Biden in the first 2020 presidential debate: our panelists' verdict
Donald Trump set the tone for a brawl that offered a bleak picture of American democracy
by Lloyd Green, Derecka Purnell, Geoffrey Kabaservice and Art Cullen
Sep 30, 2020
4 minutes
Geoffrey Kabaservice: ‘There were no winners’
As this annus horribilis grinds toward its close, the first (and final?) presidential debate provided further evidence that 2020 is a bad scriptwriter. What might possibly have been an interesting and even educational exchange turned out to be a distressing and largely unwatchable pissing contest.
For long stretches of the so-called debate, Donald Trump refused to let Joe Biden (or even the moderator, Chris Wallace) so much as complete a sentence without an interruption or insult. Trump undoubtedly did show himself as the more domineering candidate, for whatever that was worth, though he succeeded mainly in
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