{"id":4065,"date":"2020-09-30T14:23:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T19:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/?p=4065"},"modified":"2021-01-06T19:02:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T00:02:10","slug":"grace-reacts-to-the-first-presidential-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/grace-reacts-to-the-first-presidential-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace Reacts to the First Presidential Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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On Tuesday, President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden squared off in the first of three presidential debates, which was moderated by “Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace. Several topics included The Supreme Court, healthcare, COVID-19, race relations, violence in American cities, climate change, and the integrity of the election. Right from the start, both candidates wasted no time when it came to throwing punches. Trump touted his record while criticizing Biden as a career politician, saying, “In 47 months, I’ve done more than you’ve done in 47 years.” Both candidates dodged questions asked by Wallace and tiptoed their way around pressing questions. Biden refused to answer whether he would support expanding the Supreme Court, while Trump avoided condemning white supremacy. The debate was even more chaotic than anticipated, as both Trump and Biden routinely spoke over each other and exchanged insults. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Grace community joined the rest of the world by watching the debate. An anonymous student slammed the debate as “An embarrassment to the American people and this country.” The student followed up by saying, “Both men had zero ability to control themselves and accomplished absolutely nothing on stage. If we learned anything from this, it\u2019s that this is going to be a long, painful process extending far beyond November 3rd in order to determine who will be the next president of the United States.” Mayra Tuncel \u201822 offered similar critiques of the debate saying, “Biden [could not] form a coherent sentence and Trump kept interrupting him.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite Wallace\u2019s substantive questions, the debate lacked significant policy substance as many of the attacks became personal. Most notably, Trump went all-out, invoking Joe Biden\u2019s son, Hunter Biden\u2019s drug addiction. Henry Epstein \u201821 said it was “One of the more disgraceful things I\u2019ve seen but that\u2019s become the expectation of this president.”
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Evan Sarno \u201821 thought  “the debate went terribly wrong, mostly due to Chris Wallace\u2019s inadequate performance, Trump\u2019s failure to follow protocol, and Biden\u2019s lack of self-restraint when it came to firing back at his opponent. Overall, the debate was a disgrace.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In examining the performance of each candidate, GCS High School history teacher Mr. Klebnikov said, “I think that after everyone takes a few deep breaths, it will be seen that Biden won this debate.” Despite this, Klebnikov does not believe this debate will have any drastic effect on the trajectory of the election saying, “Only about 10% of American voters are still undecided which is historically a very low percentage. It is unlikely that the needle moved significantly for either candidate.” Klebnikov also believes Trump blew a chance to move the needle in the first debate, and that ultimately, he does not expect him to be re-elected, citing the “common sense of the American people.”
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This debate kicked off in what is likely to be a vicious general election cycle between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. While the two won\u2019t take the stage again until October 15th, next week, we will see the only vice-presidential debate between Vice President Mike Pence and California Senator Kamala Harris on October 7th. Despite different responses among students and faculty, the overall consensus from the Grace community was that the debate was chaotic and that the American people deserve better than what we saw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Santiago Zubillaga \u201821 is the Politics Editor for the Grace Gazette<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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