These Are The Topics For The First Presidential Debate—And They’re A Doozy

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The Commission on Presidential Debates on Monday announced the topics for the first presidential debate to be held on Sept. 26: America’s Direction, Achieving Prosperity and Securing America.

Those topics were chosen by debate moderator and NBC News anchor Lester Holt, according to a press release. While the debate may not cover these nebulous topics in order, each will be discussed for two 15-minute-long segments.

The first debate will be held at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY.

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  1. America’s Direction, Achieving Prosperity and Securing America.

    Are those even “topics”?? (Holt is a softball thrower… and I smell a shitshow.)

  2. Will the Achieving Prosperity segment have Trump showing us how he balances his account books?

  3. Yes they are topics and the questions that should be interesting.

    Holt has already made Trump ‘cry’ before.

    Now the questions should be interesting,but the overall question for me is why

  4. This debate is rigged. They chose the only three topics about which Trump is only passingly familiar.

  5. Avatar for whiteb whiteb says:

    What about: When did you realize that the President is a US Citizen? Are you planning to apologize to the American people for this conspiracy theory that your perpetuated unabated for 5 years? Do you have your tax statements with you tonight and ready to hand over?

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