US First Presidental Debate - Boomerdome 2020

WELCOME TO THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES!!!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/08/14/presidential-debates/

Time: Starts at 6:10-6:30pm to 7:40-8pm PST / 8:10-8:30pm to 9:40-10pm CST / 9:10-9:30pm-10:40-11pm EST

Where to watch:

Location: Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland

Moderator: Chris Wallace, anchor of “Fox News Sunday”


Competitors:

Former Vice President Joe Biden


President Donald Trump

Details: The debate will be 90 minutes long and have no commercial breaks. There will be no opening statements, and instead Wallace will dive right in with the first question to Trump. It will be divided into six 15-minute segments that Wallace has chosen. They are:
1) The Trump and Biden records;
2) The Supreme Court;
3) Covid-19;
4) the economy;
5) race and violence in cities;
6) the integrity of the election.

After the debates a poll will be posted on who you think won this first debate. Have lots of fun, keep the commentary fresh as I'm sure we've all heard many of the same lines for months and enjoy the beginning of the end of this presidential election cycle. Just as a reminder, on October 7th there will be a Vice Presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Mike Pence at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah.
You can view Joe Biden's megathread here, and Donald Trump's megathread here

Previous Democratic debates-
First Democratic debate (two nights)
Second Democratic debate
Third Democratic debate
Fourth Democratic debate
Fifth Democratic debate
Sixth Democratic debate
Seventh Democratic debate
Eighth Democratic debate
Ninth Democratic debate
Tenth Democratic debate
Eleventh Democratic Debate

Democratic primary results-
Super Tuesday
Mini-super Tuesday

Have fun!

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

The Proud Boys started out as a joke from Gavin McGinnis. You know, the guy that co-founded Vice?

FFS one of their initiation rights is to be jumped in until you name off five breakfast cereals. They have never taken themselves that seriously.

I'm aware, I listen to GOML

 

[RockPaper]

The bottom line is you know Biden lost because the talking point of his anti-Trump cadre is "That was a disgrace and a horrible shitshow!", rather than seriously peddling "Biden wiped the floor with Trump!".

If they actually thought Biden won, that's what the main narrative would be, rather than "It's a sad day for America".

 

[verissimus]

The bottom line is you know Biden lost because the talking point of his anti-Trump cadre is "That was a disgrace and a horrible shitshow!", rather than seriously peddling "Biden wiped the floor with Trump!".

If they actually thought Biden won, that's what the main narrative would be, rather than "It's a sad day for America".

I get the feeling Trump's combativeness backfired on him hard since this invited Wallace to step in and thus cover Biden. From what I gathered, Biden was hurting himself when he was allowed to speak.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

They've responded to the sleeve thing by saying "it's a rosary he wears to honor his dead beloved son BEAU how dare you".

that's not how rosaries work what the f--

 

[captkrisma]

Biden was asked point blank how he would reopen the economy and he didn't answer. That should tell you a lot about how his campaign is going to be run.

 

[RockPaper]

I get the feeling Trump's combativeness backfired on him hard since this invited Wallace to step in and thus cover Biden. From what I gathered, Biden was hurting himself when he was allowed to speak.

You can argue that, though I'm still not seeing reasonable people seriously arguing that Joe won this thing (which, again, is how you know he didn't). Are there Trump fans who think he had missed opportunities? Of course, and those are frustrating if you wanted him to slam Biden into powder.

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

Biden was asked point blank how he would reopen the economy and he didn't answer. That should tell you a lot about how his campaign is going to be run.

Hey, he said he had a plan, asshole! Why would a politician lie?

 

[Some JERK]

From what I gathered, Biden was hurting himself when he was allowed to speak.

He definitely hurt himself but not so much because his points were bad. He stayed on message pretty well. The problem was largely his delivery. I'm not sure if he was trying to appear calm and empathetic in contrast to Trump, but he came off as old, meek, and even a little snively in places.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

I honestly think that, as far as moderators go, Wallace was "easy mode" for Trump. Who's hosting the next presidential debate? CNN? MSNBC?

 

[CrippleThreat]

I honestly think that, as far as moderators go, Wallace was "easy mode" for Trump. Who's hosting the next presidential debate? CNN? MSNBC?

Second is C-SPAN and the third is NBC. The difficulty increases and decreases respectively for both at each level.

But honestly, it's:
Yesterday (First debate): Let's get a liberal dude from this "conservative" news network.

Second debate: Let's get a liberal dude from this centrist news network.

Third debate: Let's get a liberal chick from this liberal news network.

The puck was never in the center of the ring to beginning with.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

I honestly think that, as far as moderators go, Wallace was "easy mode" for Trump. Who's hosting the next presidential debate? CNN? MSNBC?

C-SPAN. With Steve Scully moderating.

 

[Not Really Here]

I get the feeling Trump's combativeness backfired on him hard since this invited Wallace to step in and thus cover Biden. From what I gathered, Biden was hurting himself when he was allowed to speak.

Within about 5 minutes of the debate actually starting Wallace was yelling at Trump while Joe stood silently.
Trump said something along the lines of 'well I guess I'm debating you now, that's fine'.
The moderation went downhill from there.

 

[verissimus]

though I'm still not seeing reasonable people seriously arguing that Joe won this thing

Of course not, because he could barely get a word out without Trump hounding him or Wallace taking over which is why I think Trump should have stfu at least while he was talking. If Trump wanted to rip Biden and Wallace throats afterwards for interrupting him during his time, then that would have been fine.

 

[Battler]

Trump should have let Joe speak more. On times when he spoke more than a short quip, he was stumbling himself.
The biggest loser of the night was Wallace, failed both as a moderator and as Biden's handler by letting Trump walk over him and make Biden contradict himself on the Green New Deal

 

[captkrisma]

He definitely hurt himself but not so much because his points were bad. He stayed on message pretty well. The problem was largely his delivery. I'm not sure if he was trying to appear calm and empathetic in contrast to Trump, but he came off as old, meek, and even a little snively in places.

That was part of the plan. Have Trump fucking piledrive Biden in the first debate to make Trump look like an outright bully.

 

[HandsomeDan]

Are we going to discuss the exciting trending story about biden using some supposed Islamic term (when he in fact mumbled "July"). Its so exciting and historic...

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

I honestly think that, as far as moderators go, Wallace was "easy mode" for Trump. Who's hosting the next presidential debate? CNN? MSNBC?

Question-wise (aside from the retarded Charlottesville thing) he was pretty fair. But Wallace spent more time debating Trump than Biden; he was obviously running interference for Biden.

 

[Shield Breaker]

I can't believe I'm saying this but Mike Wallace was in the tank for Trump tonight.

Pretty sure he's dead.

 

[Not Really Here]

Trump should have let Joe speak more. On times when he spoke more than a short quip, he was stumbling himself.
The biggest loser of the night was Wallace, failed both as a moderator and as Biden's handler by letting Trump walk over him and make Biden contradict himself on the Green New Deal

Like when he asked Joe what law enforcement groups support Biden?
You know, when Biden locked up and Wallace jumped in to cover for Biden and change the topic?

 

[usernames can change now!]

Biden won by virtue of leaving the stage standing upright and without having a stroke. Chris Wallace did most of the debating for him but that was expected.