{"id":78462,"date":"2020-09-30T06:36:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T03:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/trump-vs-biden-i-come-on-man\/"},"modified":"2020-09-30T06:36:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T03:36:17","slug":"trump-vs-biden-i-come-on-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/trump-vs-biden-i-come-on-man\/","title":{"rendered":"#Trump vs. Biden I: Come on, man"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Trump vs. Biden I: Come on, man<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Paul Wells: Amid the chaos, Biden turned to speak to Americans, while Trump seemed barely aware anyone was watching at home.\n <\/div>\n
\n Almost my only theory of political debates is that voters couldn\u2019t care less who \u201cwins\u201d a debate. They\u2019re looking for a leader. And they don\u2019t much care about tone or stature or whatever because they\u2019re hoping to hear some solutions. So my advice to any politician is always the same: Most of your business shouldn\u2019t be with the person standing behind the other podium. It should be with the people watching in the audience or at home.<\/p>\n

Speaking as someone who hopes for an early end to the Trump presidency, the first few minutes of Tuesday\u2019s debate in Cleveland made me nervous. Moderator Chris Wallace opened by asking the president why he should be able to get Amy Coney Barrett onto the Supreme Court, and Joe Biden why Trump shouldn\u2019t be able. Trump\u2019s answer was simple: \u201cWe won the election.\u201d His voice was calm and even. Biden\u2019s answer was long and complex, based on a hypothesis about how Barrett would rule on Obamacare.\u00a0 And Biden doesn\u2019t normally deliver complex answers cleanly. He\u2019s just not a detail guy. Very soon the debate had another participant: Wallace, arguing with Trump about who should speak when.<\/p>\n

If that dynamic had continued\u2014Trump app<\/a>earing calm and reasoned, Biden lost in subordinate clauses\u2014he might have had a good night. But he\u2019s Donald Trump. So pretty soon he was apoplectic (\u201cHe\u2019s gonna destroy the country,\u201d he said of Biden\u2019s caution on post-COVID reopening) and conspiratorial (His closing remarks revisited boring grudges against Hillary Clinton).<\/p>\n

Biden spent too much of the night sniping back at Trump, often in the very latest 1970s hipster argot. \u201cCome on, man,\u201d he pleaded with Trump, and \u201cWill you shut up, man?\u201d And \u201cFolks, do you have any idea what this clown\u2019s doing?\u201d And \u201cHe\u2019s a racist.\u201d And \u201cYou are the worst president America has ever had.\u201d It should be possible to put Trump on the defensive, for instance by asking him who\u2019s been bankrolling his massive business losses since NBC stopped. But Biden didn\u2019t really manage to put Trump on the back foot, except when he reminded people that Trump once thought injecting detergent was a good way to fight the coronavirus. \u201cIt was said sarcastically,\u201d Trump said, which makes no sense.<\/p>\n

It was a terrible debate, and it\u2019s easy to blame Wallace, who had announced he would not be intervening much to enforce either the rules or observable reality. Big mistake. He might as well have worn a T-shirt saying I\u2019M A DOORMAT, WALK ALL OVER ME. He soon realized he was presiding over anarchy and belatedly sought to impose order, which in the nature of things meant trying to rein in the free-associating, firefly-attention-span Trump.<\/p>\n

Amid the chaos, Biden got only a few chances to tell Americans about his proposed solutions, but he took two of those chances, which is two more than Trump took. Wallace asked about Trump\u2019s \u201cV-shaped recovery\u201d\u2014sharp decline, sharp rebound\u2014versus Biden\u2019s \u201cK-shaped recovery,\u201d with some doing better and some doing worse. Biden said billionaires are already doing better. \u201cBut you folks at home, you folks living in Scranton and Claymont and all the small towns and working-class towns in America, how well are you doing?\u201d<\/p>\n

And during an astonishing exchange over Trump\u2019s ludicrous claims of widespread voter fraud, Biden told voters they can determine the outcome, while Trump essentially declared the election invalid before the returns are in: \u201cThis is gonna be a fraud like you\u2019ve never seen.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2016, Trump\u2019s support grew because he at least fitfully made himself seem more aware of American fear and insecurity than his opponent. In 2020, trailing in the polls, he barely seemed aware anybody was watching at home. All his business was with Biden (and Wallace, who was the best moderator in 2016 but who, surely, will not be invited back in 2024, when he will be almost as old as Biden is now). He was in big trouble before the debate. He remains in big trouble after.
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“#Trump vs. Biden I: Come on, man” Paul Wells: Amid the chaos, Biden turned to speak to Americans, while Trump seemed barely aware anyone was watching at home. Almost my only theory of political debates is that voters couldn\u2019t care less who \u201cwins\u201d a debate. They\u2019re looking for a leader. And they don\u2019t much care…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DONALD-TRUMP-JOE-BIDEN-VOTE-WELLS-SEPT29-766x431.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[73605,73606,4941,67806,991],"class_list":["post-78462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-2020-presidential-debate","tag-chris-wallace","tag-donald-trump","tag-editors-picks","tag-joe-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}