I'm talking about policy postitions that were presented in the debate, and for that it is important to say what happened in the past four years. Or at least starting with Covid, because before that it was largely business as usual and tax cuts. (And dismantling nuclear treaties).
If you want to focus purely on the 'who won the rhetorics' part of the debate, I think all you have to know is, that Trump pressured by both the moderator (only in that one instance, and trying to keep him from interrupting (equal time budget for both candidates should be upheld), in more instances..
) and Biden managed to say the following on the 'extreme right wing militias, may swarm the streets post election, armed'."Please stand down. And (insinuated: but) stand by."
Then pretty much low level bickering on rhetorical jabs for a good third of the debate, just like you see in this forum, just more than a third of the time..
And please, dont just go by style. (Who looked like they could dominate the other person. And did they do it? With words. This is not american gladiators..
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Oh yeah that part. Both parties blaimed the other side for being more cosy with Putin and China. The Putin part is largely overplayed, and so is the China part imho, because - similar as with climate change, but even more closely in position, both parties would roughly hold the same positions on Russian election interferance, or trying to prevent China from becoming the dominating world economy.
US soy farmers currently are hurting, if you want to know that.
But so are chinese development ventures.
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