The first Trump-Biden debate is tonight. Here is my running commentary via Twitter & maybe a little Facebook thrown in –
RECAP: I would score this Trump 60%, Biden 40%. Trump needs to score knockdowns to close the apparent polling gap and I don’t think he did that tonight. I expect that Trump, as he did in 2016, will be sharper in the 2nd & 3rd debates. My hunch is that Biden won’t be able to do any better. He often seemed flustered tonight. I wasn’t expecting civility tonight, and I wasn’t disappointed. My own views are colored by my views on the specter of Biden imposing a national lockdown & keeping schools shutdown. Neither candidate was honest and neither candidate showed affection for either the Constitution or limited government. I would far prefer to see a pro-freedom candidate making a strong case on the prez debate stage. But that won’t happen this year.
+ Post-debate comments by pundits, media, etc.: Biden talking as if he would put hundreds of millions of Americans under house arrest but that is a non-issue. In the same way, the vast majority of the media coverage this year has ignored or derided civil liberties while championing government lockdowns that failed to stop COVID from spreading.
“I am the Democratic Party” announces Biden
Biden's line on lockdowns – 'People want to be safe' – is perhaps the most chilling line of the night. #Debate2020
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) September 30, 2020
Trump focusing on the perils of Biden imposing a national shutdown is very effective. #Debates2020
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) September 30, 2020
Biden's prattle on justifying school shutdowns is some of the worst BS of the night. #Debates2020
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) September 30, 2020
That "three and a half million dollars from the mayor of Moscow" – I will be curious to see how that sticks with viewers. #Debates2020
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) September 30, 2020
Biden: "Antifa is an idea, not an organization." Will this line haunt him? #Debates2020
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) September 30, 2020
Trump focusing on the perils of Biden imposing a national shutdown is very effective. #Debates2020
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) September 30, 2020
Trump is doing to Biden tonight what Biden did to Paul Ryan in 2012. Looking ugly early #Debates2020
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) September 30, 2020
Trump's counterpunching could be lethal tonight. Biden is looking a little slow already #Debates2020
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) September 30, 2020
Very appropriate to have military surrounding scene where 2 politicians will wrangle over who will be Elective Dictator for next 4 years #Debates2020 https://t.co/FWqZF7IONB
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) September 30, 2020
I have not been able to find anyone who will wager that tonight's #Debates2020 will restore Americans' faith in our political system
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) September 30, 2020
For #DebateTuesday: "Politicians nowadays treat Americans like medical orderlies treat Alzheimer’s patients, telling them anything that will keep them subdued. It doesn’t matter what untruths the people are fed because they will not long remember." https://t.co/V3HpqxCCe2
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) September 29, 2020
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