CLAY COUNTY – Local residents agree last week’s final debate of the 2020 presidential race was more watchable than the train wreck of the first debate.
The first presidential debate last month …
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CLAY COUNTY – Local residents agree last week’s final debate of the 2020 presidential race was more watchable than the train wreck of the first debate.
The first presidential debate last month knows that it was less of a debate and more of an hour-and-a-half of television of two men arguing like children on a playground. The debate commission found a way to quell the constant interruptions between the two by enforcing a muted mic rule during each candidate’s initial two minutes for each question and it made for a much better debate experience.
“Unfortunately, for the first time in history, one of the candidates was so disruptive and uncivil [during the first debate] this is the only way to have this kind of event,” Clay Today reader Domenic Musco said on our Facebook Question of the Week. “It won’t much change the trajectory of the race either way.”
More than 40% of registered voters in America have already voted through early voting but there are still those out there watching, undecided, looking to debates and other things to help them decide on their candidate for the 2020 race. Clay Today reader Scott Harrington said neither candidate appealed to uninformed or undecided voters.
Our readers said they believe President Donald Trump won the final debate.
“Trump won,” Candy Baylor said. “Why? Because of these words: I ran for president because of you and Obama, and that is why Trump won in 2016 and he will win again on Nov. 3.”
Harrington agreed and said Trump won because of how straightforward he was and how contradictory Biden was during the debate. Reader Lou Tennant poked at both sides of the aisle instead of throwing his support behind Trump or candidate Joe Biden.
“Neither person really cares if you have food on your table,” Tennant said. “Not one of them sitting up on that hill either. [It’s] time Americans realize ‘We The People’ are who’s going to Drain the Swamp.’”
Rich Klinzman said muting was definitely the way to go, “due to the candidates being awful.” He also said he doesn’t understand how someone could vote for either. Tracy Lynn said she wished the moderator had been muted as well, as she’s “sick of hearing them join in the debate instead of hearing solely from the candidates.”
Both candidates now will likely take shots at their opponent in the final days of the race. Expect both of them to focus on states where they know a vote battle will take place.
What did you think of the presidential debates? What did you think of the debate commission’s new mute rule? Let us know on the Facebook Question of the Week on the Clay Today Newspaper Facebook page.