The night Trump dressed up as president

Five keys to the second Trump-Biden debate

photo_camera PHOTO/AFP - Debate entre Trump y Biden, candidatos a la presidencia de los Estados Unidos

The second election debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, held at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, brought the confrontation back into the realm of moderation. This time Trump has parked the stridencies... within his relative possibilities of lowering the tone, and has avoided being the impulsive compulsive that he is used to whenever he has a camera in front of him. This time the two contenders debated and discussed ideas for their country, so that the Democrat was somewhat disheartened by the turn of the reelection candidate and unable to portray his opponent as the buffoon he really seems to be. In front of him was not the Trump of the poisoned tweets and orphans of the diplomacy his position demands, but a candidate who learned from Cleveland's horrible first face-to-face, who his advisers made him turn his strategy on Biden, someone he deeply despises. But the polls did not improve after that first round, and the change has been for the better.

Taking advantage of the current political situation in Spain, we could say that Trump became a married man in front of Biden. Trying to connect with the lifelong Republican voter who does not share his constant outbursts and unilateralist vision of politics. 

Donald Trump, candidato republicano para ser reelegido a la presidencia estadounidense

The president's main idea in this debate has been to constantly question why Biden has not done everything he now says in the years he has been in the White House and the Senate. This is what he has to do to run for the presidency of the country when he is almost eighty years old.

Coronavirus: "Learning to die with it"

This is the chapter where Trump has been least convincing due to the evidence of his mismanagement and Joe Biden's accurate attacks, with that headline phrase in response to the president's claim that Americans are "learning to live with the virus". The strategy of Superman, who has managed to double the number of cases of the disease, revived him three weeks ago, but there are doubts that in the midst of the second wave and with the country on the road to three hundred thousand deaths, this message will be effective. Trump today moderated his views on Dr. Fauci, with whom he has not made the usual blood that he seeks in his criticism of his administration's top health advisor, whom he has made the scapegoat for failure for weeks. Tonight, the candidate has spared his life.  

Taxes and establishment

The issue of money for both candidates was the most difficult chapter this time. With accusations of corruption between the two, for Trump's business in China and his recently discovered bank account, and for the activities of Biden's son in Russia and the Ukraine, will the president present his tax returns now? The question offends Trump, but it has never satisfied the curiosity of Americans in this matter. 

Joe Biden, candidato demócrata a la presidencia de los Estados Unidos
Interference in the electoral process

Russia is once again flying over the candidates' speeches because of the possibility that it will once again attempt to interfere with the citizens' free vote on 3 November. This suspicion has now been compounded by Iran following the accusations made by the director of security John Ratcliffe a few days ago. The Iranian regime is allegedly financing telematic attacks on voters by disseminating false information in their e-mails after obtaining confidential data from the voter registry, the same procedure attributed to Moscow in 2016. Now Trump stands as a victim of this conspiracy. Obama's former vice-president states emphatically in Nashville that if this is true, Russia and Iran will pay for it.​​​​​​​

The minority vote

Trump has been posing in the debate as the president who has done the most for African Americans since Abraham Lincoln. And he has embarrassed Biden by supporting the legal reform that put thousands of Latinos and blacks in jail, one of the most compromising moments for the Democrat who had to acknowledge the mistake of that Administration (Clinton). Biden, who had already left an announcement of campaigns with public health insurance for those who cannot afford private insurance, announced the most important regularization of illegal immigrants in recent years, seeking the vote of ethnic minorities.

Brilliant moderator, good rules

The formal aspects of the second debate have not gone unnoticed. Kristen Welker, the journalist who covers the White House for NBC, is nailed to actress Pam Grier, who played Jackie Brown for Tarantino. She has been brilliant in her administration of the times, helped by the tool provided by the Debate Commission: the nuclear button to turn off the microphone of the candidate who was not on the floor thus avoiding the interruptions that turned Cleveland's face-to-face into a chicken coop between three. I believe that a new way of dealing with these debates has been born, one which avoids the lack of education and respect of some contenders who believe they can win by being heard louder than their antagonists. Albert Rivera, for example, knows a lot about this. In return, they can gesture and make gestures by giving television producers unpayable counterplans. 

The only moment of image that could cost Biden a displeasure is his look at the clock as if he wanted the process to pass as soon as possible. Let us not forget that the Americans punished a candidate for his pale, sweaty face, even though on the radio his message had been more convincing than that of his rival. 

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