Presidential Debate 1 Review: Donald Trump Rants, Joe Biden Plays POTUS & Chris Wallace Loses Control
was a fierce fracas that left most of the rules and portions of reality behind almost from the jump.
“Mr. President, please stop,” Wallace said at one point. At another, he had to remind Trump that his campaign had agreed to the rules of the debate. Wallace’s failure tonight should also be a teachable moment for Steve Scully on how to wrangle the recalcitrant and obviously desperate Trump when the C-SPAN anchor moderates the second POTUS debate on October 15 in Miami. Scully may even want to announced that he intends to cover topics of COVID-19, the economy, race and violence in our cities and the integrity of the election, because that stuff barely got covered on Tuesday.
Coming just 35 days before the election, this first face-to-face between the two septuagenarians didn’t have the customary handshake between the candidates because of the coronavirus pandemic, as the first of many unprecedented moves. By the end, it was clearly these two wouldn’t be shaking hands even if Trump’s predicted miracle end to the pandemic occurred tomorrow.
“I’m not here to call out his lies, everybody knows he’s a liar,” the ex-Veep said of Trump, as his opponent babbled on over him. Calling the poll sagging incumbent a “clown,” Biden ducked and weaved as Wallace constantly had to pull a yellow card on the petulant interrupting Trump, to no avail. “You’re the worst President America has ever had,” Biden asserted in some over talk of his own to the increasingly defensive Trump.
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