With his eyes fixed on the independents and the Latino vote, Joe Biden and donald trump They star this Thursday in the first of the two presidential debates scheduled before the crucial elections on November 5.
It will be, in practice, the starting point of a campaign that has not yet officially begun, but that has not only Americans, but the entire world in suspense due to its impact on the Ukraine and Gaza wars.
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On the one hand, Biden has the enormous objective of appearing vital and lucid, at 81 years old and with another four years ahead of him if he wins re-election. On the other hand, Trump will arrive at the debate as the first former president to be criminally convicted in the country’s history and with a sentencing scheduled for July 11.
But both candidates, curiously, have not yet been nominated by their parties, although they have already secured their victories in the internal elections. Trump, 78, will accept the Republican Party nomination in July in Milwaukee. Biden will only do so at the August convention in Chicago.
“Biden is going to try to recover the Latino vote, which he has lost in part, and the youth, who began to migrate from the Democratic wing after the war in Gaza. “Trump will appeal to his hard core and to all those who join because of a phobia of immigration,” one of the great themes of the campaign, he told TN the international analyst Claudio Fantini.
What will the first debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump be like?
The debate is taking place this time very soon, almost four and a half months before the elections, something very unusual in American political history. It will be organized by the cnn in its studios in Atlanta and will begin at 10:00 p.m. in Argentina. It will last 90 minutes and will have two commercial breaks. At the request of Biden’s advisors, there will be no audience to avoid boos.
Journalists Jake Tapper and Dana Bash They will be the moderators. Each candidate’s microphones will be muted when the turn to speak passes to their opponent. That was another of the demands of Biden’s team, fearful that Trump’s interruptions would tarnish his speech. By draw, Biden was on the right and Trump on the left of the screen, something that must not have gone down very well with the Republican magnate. But to his credit, he will have the last word during the final statements, by chance of a coin tossed in the air.
The third candidate in contention, independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr, was not invited, despite his insistence, which sparked strong protests from his campaign team.
The first presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump will take place at the CNN studios in Atlanta (Photo: AP)
The second debate, which will be broadcast by ABC Newsis scheduled for September 10, almost two months before the elections.
What will be the strategies of Joe Biden and Donald Trump in the first presidential debate
Biden and Trump will have well-defined objectives in this first debate.
“Biden is going to do everything possible to show lucidity, clarity and coherence. The president has the challenge of countering the monumental campaign that Trumpism and also the experts who work for Vadimir Putin “They have fabricated it on the networks by spreading images, strategically edited, to make him look like a gagá man, a decrepit old man,” said Fantini.
Joe Biden vs Donald Trump, in the first debate (Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque and Elizabeth Frantz)By: REUTERS
That will be Trump’s great objective. “He is going to try to show that Biden lost his lucidity and fell into loopholes. Furthermore, he will seek to portray his administration as a dangerous government that is taking the United States to the brink of wars in Ukraine and Gaza, he noted.
The equation is simple: “Trump has to demonstrate that Biden is a danger and that he is the guarantee to avoid a war,” he indicated.
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On Biden’s side, the current president will try to attack the legal situation of his Republican rival. “There you have a gigantic arsenal to attack,” Fantini said.
On May 30, Trump became the first US president criminally convicted of falsifying campaign documents to make a payment to former porn actress Stormy Daniels to buy her silence over an alleged affair between the two. The judge will announce the sentence on July 11. Most likely, he will be sentenced to a fine or a lesser sentence of probation or house arrest.
“This is a topic that “Trump supporters will not change anything”said the analyst.
But the most powerful chips will aim to attract the support of young people and the Latino vote, which could be decisive in some key states. For this, the immigration issue will be fundamental. In fact, Biden just launched a new plan to regularize more than half a million undocumented immigrants.
Trump has already attacked the project. “They are going to formally grant a massive amnesty to millions of illegal aliens who arrived in our country,” he said, seeking a tough anti-immigrant vote.
Chicanas and accusations
But beyond the hot topics, everyone expects a debate full of chicanery.
On the Democratic side, Biden will seek to describe Trump as a “convicted criminal” and “deranged,” according to campaign sources cited by the local press. In addition, he will point to him as “the architect” of the end of federal protections for the right to abortion.
Opposite, Trump will deploy a battery of tricks to try to get the president out of his senses. He already announced that he has not yet decided whether to refer to Biden as “corrupt joe” either “sleeping joe”.
A few days ago, on his social network Truth, he showed a preview of his strategy by asking for a drug test before the debate. “A drug test for corrupt Joe Biden??? I would also accept one immediately!!!”, he wrote. But that was not all. At a campaign event, he suggested that Biden will go to the debate doped, stating that before the beginning he will be given “an injection in the ass”.
