{"id":4187,"date":"2020-10-23T14:00:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T19:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/?p=4187"},"modified":"2021-01-06T19:05:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T00:05:01","slug":"instant-analysis-the-final-presidential-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/instant-analysis-the-final-presidential-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Instant Analysis: The Final Presidential Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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On Thursday, President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden squared off in the final presidential debate, following the cancellation of the second debate after Trump tested positive for COVID-19. NBC\u2019s Kristen Welker served as the moderator of the event, which took place at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, and received praise from both the left and the right. This was a clear difference from the reaction to Fox News\u2019 Chris Wallace, who was accused by Trump of siding with Biden and criticized by the left for not keeping Trump under control. 
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In order to remedy the chaos of the first debate, we saw the implementation of muted microphones to allow each candidate to get their point across without interruption. The debate was far more substantive than the previous one, yet it still had some of the same aggressive and confrontational aspects. The two major candidates clashed on the response to COVID-19, race, immigration, national security, personal corruption, climate change, and several other hot-button issues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noah Eisman \u201922 praised the decision to mute the microphones, saying, \u201cThis debate went a lot smoother. It made everyone more respectful.\u201d Despite this, Eisman was frustrated with what he viewed as frequent evasion of questions, saying, \u201cBoth Trump and Biden will never answer the questions.\u201d 
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With most of the community glued to the television, students from Grace had several different takeaways. Henry Pallesen \u201921 believed that this debate \u201cWas one of Biden\u2019s best debates this cycle,\u201d while an anonymous student claimed, \u201cTrump had his best performance yet.\u201d Manavi Sinha \u201921 believed that there was no clear winner from the debate. However, she believed, \u201cTrump did very well.\u201d In addition to being a Biden supporter, Sinha, who has also been phone banking for him, added, \u201cI think more than anything [the debate] made me nervous for swing voters. Watching from what I\u2019ve gathered from talking to Florida undecideds, they appeal strongly to Trump speaking cohesively and making Joe [Biden] seem economically criminal, both as a socialist and a rich person.\u201d Nicholas von Perfall \u201921 had a more cynical view of the debate, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s a sorry state to see two aging candidates, one a schoolyard bully and failed real estate developer and the other, a bumbling old man, unable to fulfill his promise as an orator.\u201d However, von Perfall has a clear choice when it comes to who his preferred candidate is, saying, \u201cBiden represents a candidate who listens to his constituents, has political experience spanning four decades, and, most importantly, his platform is one of unity, which during these tumultuous times is more essential than ever before.\u201d 
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As many Americans have already participated in early-voting, Americans are asking, did the debate matter? Eisman does not think so, saying, \u201cI don\u2019t think debates do anything. They don\u2019t convince anyone to switch who they were initially planning to vote for.\u201d With Trump down in the polls by a relatively large margin, Pallesen believes \u201cTrump needed to make a splash in order to dramatically alter the course of this race, and he did not do that.\u201d 
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While students varied on who they thought performed the best, the Grace community\u2019s overall consensus was that the final presidential debate was a far more propper event than the theatrics in late September. Whether this debate will be of any significance to the election result remains to be seen, however, the students agreed they received a debate that the American people deserved\u2013\u2013one that was substantive and worth watching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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