President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are set to face off in their first of three scheduled presidential debates on Tuesday at 9 p.m. Eastern Time. Fox News’ Chris Wallace will moderate, and the debate is scheduled to go until 10:30 p.m. ET, commercial-free.
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President Trump’s erratic and unhinged debate performance earned a swift round of rebukes late Tuesday from prominent journalists and commentators who seemed stunned by what they witnessed. Continue reading “Trump’s Shit Show: Media Shocked By President’s Off-The-Rails Debate Debacle”
We just shared our quick reactions to the debate on a special episode of The Josh Marshall podcast. Check it out here, or click through for an embedded player.
When President Trump could have thrown the smallest of bones towards the ideas underpinning a stable democracy, he tripled down on the idea that he owed no such thing to the country.
Continue reading “Trump Can’t Do Anything But Amp Up Threats Of Election And Transition Chaos”
In a relatively fresh line of attack, former Vice President Joe Biden spent many of his (heavily interrupted) minutes painting President Donald Trump as one of the elite he claims to so detest.
I worried what this momentous night would bring. In the event I think it was somewhere between bad and disastrous for President Trump.
The most important fact about this debate is that going into it President Trump was clearly behind. He needed to shift the dynamic of the race, force some major error, introduce some new factor. That didn’t happen. I saw nothing tonight that seems at all likely to improve things for President Trump. Nothing.
Biden did fine. Not great. But fine. I’d say he had a B performance with some B+ or even A- minus moments. But for him that’s fine. He’s ahead. He’s not running as best debater. He’s not running as most dynamic figure. He’s not competing for most unstable affect. He’s running as the guy who will end the nightmare. If that’s the goal he turned in just the right performance.
The floor was his. He was asked to do it. And yet Donald Trump on Tuesday repeatedly failed to condemn white supremacists and other violent right wingers that support him. Instead, he pivoted and dodged.
Continue reading “Proud Boys Cheer Trump Shoutout As He Refuses To Condemn White Supremacy”
We’re recording a quick podcast of reactions. I’ll share my thoughts on the debate momentarily.
In the first half hour of the first presidential debate of the 2020 general election, President Donald Trump hardly let former Vice President Joe Biden — or, even, moderator Chris Wallace — get a word in edgewise.
Frustrated, Biden often simply spoke while facing the camera directly, rather than Trump or Wallace.
Continue reading “Heckler-In-Chief: Trump Runs Amok As Biden Tries Direct Appeal To Voters”
The three-judge court that blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to exclude undocumented immigrants from congressional apportionment said Tuesday that it would not put that ruling on hold while the government appeals it.
