Trump rises to a hesitant Biden
The United States is eagerly awaiting the presidential elections on 5 November.
For the Democratic Party, the current president Joe Biden is appearing, and for the Republican Party, the challenger and former president Donald Trump is appearing.
Both starred in a heated first television debate on the Atlanta television set of the American network CNN. A meeting that left several interesting points that could change the direction of the vote.
The country's attention was focused on the dialectic clash between the two political rivals, both with an important political trajectory and with many pending accounts for all the confrontations they have had over all these years of political encounters. All of this taking into account that it was Joe Biden who succeeded Donald Trump in the last American presidential change that led to a black episode for American politics with the assault on the Capitol in Washington on 6 January 2021 by radical Republican followers of Trump who rejected the result of the last elections, which gave victory to the Democrats. A situation that generated a major wave of confrontation.
This escalation of tension has marked the political landscape of recent years in the United States, with Donald Trump always in the media spotlight to attack Joe Biden's government and to announce his intention to take back what he considers to be his own and destined for the Republican Party, which is the Presidency of the United States.
The televised debate between the two candidates was tough, due to the tension and tension between them. Although Joe Biden had some complicated moments due to voice problems caused by flu and various lapses he had, perhaps attributable to his advanced age and which have cost him other unpleasantness in other public acts; mistakes that were taken advantage of by Donald Trump.
The Republican Party candidate relied heavily on the immigration discourse, showing signs of his ironclad policy of border protection and tougher requirements for allowing immigrants to enter, and he also brought up the issue of high inflation in the United States due to rising prices.
The debate was tense. Proof of this is that neither of the two greeted each other when they met and even resorted to personal attacks, such as Donald Trump's legal controversy over his relationship with a porn actress or the death of one of Joe Biden's sons and the legal problems of another of his offspring.
The two candidates accused each other of lying on issues such as veterans and border control or the state of the US economy and inflation itself.
Trump resorted to some false claims and avoided answering some questions, as in the case of the assault on the Capitol, although he repeatedly attacked Biden for his handling of the economy and his management of foreign policy, as well as for the record numbers of immigrant arrivals.
Biden, for his part, pointed to Trump's recent criminal conviction, immersed in various legal proceedings, and repeated that his rival is "a threat to democracy".
According to the BBC's North American editor, Anthony Zurcher, especially in the first part of the debate, due to his lapses and indecisions, Biden suffered in the dialectic exchange when dealing with relevant issues such as the economy, immigration or the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
According to Zurcher, some of Biden's answers were confusing and unclear, "which will undoubtedly increase the concern of many Americans that he may be too old to be president".
According to Anthony Zurcher, on the economy and immigration, issues of great importance to American voters, Trump was confident and clear in his attacks on Biden, while the president's rebuttals were less effective.
After the debate, Donald Trump's position was reaffirmed, according to various analysts, in the face of the doubts being generated by the figure of Joe Biden, already worn down by his advanced age and with significant lapses in his speeches.
