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A political science professor at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School believes most voters were disappointed by the first presidential debate and left unhappy with at least one candidate or both. Grant Reeher says Americans didn’t come away from the debate more informed about the candidates. He says President Biden looked weak when he first took the stage.
“And a lot of times, unless you had deep knowledge of that policy area, it was almost impossible to understand what he was saying. Then you would understand what it meant to defeat Medicare — to defeat the companies that resist Medicare price negotiations and resist lowering insulin prices — but you had to decipher it for yourself.”
Reeher said Biden lost the first 30 minutes of the debate, with Donald Trump coming across as more rational and presidential, but as the debate went on, Trump became more extreme — as if he was at a campaign rally, Reeher said.
“So there was hyperbole. There were things that were not true: ‘I’m the best ever at everything. President Biden is the worst ever at everything.’ That doesn’t help voters understand. They already know that’s how he describes himself.”
That’s why President Biden was better able to respond to questions later in the debate, when he tried to answer them but remained a bit unclear, he said. By comparison, Trump seemed to answer every question about U.S. policy by referring to the U.S. immigration and border crisis, he said, because he feels those are two issues that Trump finds advantageous. He feels that campaign advisers should tell Trump to “stay out of the groove” in preparation for the next debate. He also suggested that Biden’s advisers should work to energize the president and make him more prepared to outline his accomplishments, including economic policy.
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