Joe Biden and Donald Trump their first televised debate, September 29, 2020. -
Photos Sipa
From our correspondent in the United States,
“When you fight with a pig you both end up dirty and the pig likes it.
For their first televised debate on Tuesday evening, Joe Biden and Donald Trump chose to ignore this famous American saying.
For 90 chaotic minutes, we witnessed a tiring game, punctuated by incessant interruptions from the American president and the anger of Joe Biden, from which no one grew up.
Neither winner.
This is undoubtedly the business of the Democratic candidate, who is 6 points ahead of his rival in the race for the White House, according to the poll average.
"Will you shut up, man": Biden and the moderator pushed to their limits by Trump's interruptions
Never in a presidential debate, we had heard a candidate say to the other to "close it".
If Joe Biden got carried away, it's because Donald Trump did not, at times, let him place one, including during the two-minute segments where each candidate was supposed to be able to speak without interruption.
"Will you shut up, man?"
- Biden to Trump pic.twitter.com/F1oX6VM7Wz
- Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 30, 2020
“Mr. President, stop.
"Mr. President, stop" ... The moderator, Chris Wallace, called the American president to order ten times.
Until getting annoyed: "I am the moderator, let me ask my question".
And while Donald Trump assures us that Joe Biden is not doing better, Chris Wallace replies: “No, you interrupt him a lot more often.
"
"Mr. President, let him answer!"
"Mr. President, please stop."
Moderator Chris Wallace repeatedly tries to keep Pres.
Trump from interrupting Joe Biden.
"It's hard to get any word in with this clown," Biden says, "excuse me, this person."
https://t.co/5Bl4Ob3O2t # Debates2020 pic.twitter.com/4wjCUTdzns
- ABC News (@ABC) September 30, 2020
Debate Moderator Chris Wallace: "Mr. President, I am the moderator of this debate and I would like you to let me ask my question ..."
WATCH LIVE: https://t.co/fWneV8WJet#Debates2020 pic.twitter. com / elNkhYD2GZ
- Good Morning America (@GMA) September 30, 2020
Insults and personal attacks
Joe Biden called Donald Trump a "liar" and a "clown" and then accused him of being "racist" and "Putin's poodle".
Donald Trump, he assured that there was "nothing intelligent" in his opponent and repeatedly attacked his son Hunter, denouncing "the millions of dollars" he would have, he assures, affected in Ukraine, China and Russia.
But the most violent clash has come over statements allegedly made by Donald Trump about veterans.
“My son served in Iraq, he was not a loser,” Biden thundered, of his son Beau, who died of a brain tumor.
Trump's low blow fires: "You mean Hunter, who was fired from the military because he was taking cocaine?"
".
Biden Response: “My son had an addiction problem that he fought.
I am proud of him.
"
President Trump interrupted Joe Biden during their debate when Biden was talking about his late son's military career, shifting the subject to the business ties of Biden's other son https://t.co/o2s21y0yNX pic.twitter.com/QhA4ZLmcaV
- POLITICO (@politico) September 30, 2020
Joe Biden struggles to put Donald Trump in trouble, even on the Covid
Basically, the Democratic candidate supported where it hurts, with the coronavirus and its 200,000 deaths in the United States, as well as the economic crisis symbolized by the 28,000 job cuts at Disney.
But as usual, Joe Biden, who stuttered as a child, often stumbled on his words or lost his train of thought.
He accused Donald Trump of having "been aware in February" of the dangerousness of Covid-19 and of having "hidden" it from the Americans, he never succeeded in destabilizing the tenant of the White House.
Trump refuses to condemn white supremacists and pledge to recognize results
The moderator asked the US president if he was prepared to speak out clearly against white supremacists - which he did not do after the Charlottesville tragedy - and tell the armed militiamen not to spill oil on it. fire in demonstrations against racism.
"Absolutely, I'm ready to do it, but almost everything I see comes from the far left," begins Donald Trump.
Pressed by Chris Wallace, he makes a concession, asking the group "Proud Boys" to "show restraint".
The US president refused to commit to accepting the election results, insisting on the risk of postal vote fraud, assuring him: "It could be weeks or months before we know the results"
A draw that does Biden's business
"We have seen the worst presidential debate in history," said
20 Minutes
Todd Graham, "debate coach" at Southern Illinois University.
Former Republican Party spokesman Doug Heye nods, "It was a very dirty draw, and nothing in this debate is going to fundamentally change that."
According to him, it makes the business of Joe Biden "because Donald Trump needed a clear victory".
See you for the second round in two weeks.
Joe biden
Debate
World
US presidential election
Donald trump