With less than two weeks to go before the elections, it’s the second and final presidential debate. Joe Biden and Donald Trump will face off, with NBC News’ Kristen Welker moderating and a new set of rules muting the microphone of whoever is not speaking during the initial two-minute answers in each of the six topic areas. Those topics are COVID-19, leadership, American families, race in America, climate change, and national security.
The debate runs for 90 minutes beginning at 9 PM ET. You can watch it on many television networks or stream it at many news sites, including C-SPAN. You can also follow along here.
Whatever you do, do not play a debate drinking game with Trump interrupting or lying as a reason to drink.
So much for the prepared and disciplined Trump.
He really is in love with Kim Jong-un.
Here we go on health care. What are you gonna do Trump, when people don’t have it any more. And he’s as incoherent as ever. Terminate it. Terminate. He loves that word and the rest is pretty much nuts. But he also remembers he has to say “pre-existing.” Also thinks they’re going to win the House. They’re still giving him some kind of drug.
Terminate 180 million plans! He really does love that word. So now to coherence, what’ll happen if SCOTUS overturns ACA—says he’ll do Obamacare with public option to become Bidencare and he actually is talking about real policies.
Ha, nice “infrastructure” dig from Biden. Yeah, there’s no way to cover pre-existing conditions without the underlying structure of regulations and subsidies and he could have done a better job on that but he does get this stuff, even though this isn’t the real venue to explain it.
And we’re back to the “he was there for 47 years” and he didn’t do anything. Now he’s off on fracking again. The tranquilizers have worn off, apparently.
Good job, Joe. “He thinks he’s running against someone else.” Ooooh, good job getting in the Social Security bit, on Trump’s payroll tax plan. Yeah, Joe prepared.
They need to use that mute button better. But it gives Biden a nice moment to talk about the stock market and how little that means to actual, real people.
Ok, now unemployment, hunger. Why hasn’t Trump helped relief. He blames it on Pelosi. Please say Mitch, Biden. Please say Mitch.
Thank you Joe.
Thank you again, Joe. Yes, Ms. Welker, the House Democrats passed the HEROES Act at the beginning of summer. That was a really bullshit question, why hasn't Biden made the Democrats act. But Biden handled that well and we’re off on Trump and how the Democratic bail-out would make people come piling into country? Opened a really strong moment for Biden though on being president of the whole U.S.
And a very good answer on minimum wage—yes, we push for it but before we do that we spend the money on stimulus to save businesses.
Trump went off on an anti-$15/hour minimum wage and Welker reminds him that he recently endorsed it. He just blathered around it so it didn’t work. Biden hits strong again on minimum wage.
And flipped on a dime to immigration. He’s asked about family separation and the hundreds of kids whose parents can’t be found. He immediately veered off into coyotes and cartels and gangs and didn’t answer the question. Biden brings it back to the families that were broken up. Trump’s only answer is Obama and Biden built the cages. “They are so well taken care of,” the monster says.
Welker—your administration failed to come up with comprehensive immigration reform. It was actually the Republican Senate which would have been a good point for Biden to make, but he didn’t say that. Oh well. He does bring up DACA, the strongest part of his response.
Biden explodes Trump’s “catch and release” bullshit. Now Trump’s back on the murderers and rapists. There’s the racist monster we all came to know and hate since 2015.
Now race, so that was a good segue from Trump, albeit unwitting. Welker gives Biden 2 minutes to talk to Black and brown parents about “the talk” and the fear these families have. He knows this stuff by now and is doing well. Trump looks bored and impatient while Biden talks about systemic racism.
Source: Daily Kos
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