Charles Hurt — The Mistake on the Lake: Unpresidential Debate, Winner-less Cage Match
And the winner is … the Commission on Unpresidential Debates!
And the winner is … the Commission on Unpresidential Debates!
Tuesday evening’s debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden failed to draw an audience as big as the presidential debate opener between then-candidate Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, dropping 36 percent, preliminary results reveal.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) proclaimed on Tuesday night that President Trump is a white supremacist following an exchange with debate moderator Chris Wallace, who asked Trump to condemn white supremacist groups despite the president having repeatedly done so in the past.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said President Donald Trump should provide more focus on his economic record in upcoming presidential debates, offering her commentary on Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.
Chinese state media denounced the first debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden as the “epitome of U.S. chaos,” a “representation of the sharp division within U.S. society,” and a sign of America’s inferiority to authoritarian one-party Communist China.
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) said Joe Biden, if elected president, would have his administration run by “far-left radical socialists,” offering his remarks on Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said during a cabinet meeting on Wednesday that the contentious debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden demonstrated the United States is “mired” in a “very difficult situation.”
During an interview that aired during Wednesday’s broadcast of Hugh Hewitt’s nationally syndicated radio show, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed Fox News Channel’s Chris Wallace, the moderator for the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden a night earlier.
The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) announced on Wednesday that it will incorporate “additional structure” to future debates to “ensure a more orderly discussion of the issues” following Tuesday evening’s contentious debate between not just Joe Biden and President Trump, but moderator Chris Wallace, who had several heated moments with the president.
Chris Wallace, Fox News Sunday host and moderator of Tuesday’s presidential debate, appeared to cave to the radical left by introducing an unexpected topic, climate change, into the first presidential debate despite its absence from the formal list of topics for the night’s discussion.
Left-wing figures across the board demanded the remaining presidential debates be canceled because the entire spectacle, they say, was “stupid” and future debates would serve as a “danger to public safety and a direct threat to Black life.”
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro issued an outraged statement Wednesday morning in response to Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden threatening to wage economic war on his country during the presidential debate the night before, exclaiming, “what a shame!”
CLAIM: During Tuesday night’s presidential debate, Democratic nominee Joe Biden said that American educators do not teach students to “hate” the United States. VERDICT: FALSE
Joe Biden claimed during the presidential debate on Tuesday night that his public option insurance plan would only be available for Americans that qualify for Medicaid.
Former Vice President Joe Biden threatened an economic war with Brazil during Tuesday night’s presidential debate, stating that the South American nation would suffer “significant economic consequences” if it did not adhere to Biden’s preferred environmental policy.
Actor Michael Keaton declared Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden the winner of Tuesday presidential debate and demanded that he commit to do ‘no more debates” with President Donald Trump.
Joe Biden falsely indicated during the presidential debate that Dr. Anthony Fauci has always supported everyone wearing a mask to stem the spread of coronavirus.
Nigel Farage said that Joe Biden can’t condemn Antifa because he is afraid of losing votes from the far-left in the election.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) criticized Tuesday’s presidential debate as uninformative and “exhausting” and suggested that instead of having the candidates directly debate each other, they should each do 30-minute interviews
Tuesday, after the first presidential debate on CNN, network correspondent Dana Bash had rough language to describe that debate, which she said was a “shit show.”
Left-wing pundits appeared to try and justify ending presidential debates altogether following the first debate Tuesday night in Cleveland, Ohio.
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) said on Tuesday’s broadcast of CBS’s “The Late Show” that President Donald Trump’s presidential debate performance “was embarrassing to our country.”
Fox News moderator Chris Wallace at the presidential debate on Tuesday prefaced his question to President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden about climate change by implying that the forest fires ravaging the state of California are due to climate change.
Joe Biden said during the first presidential debate in Cleveland Tuesday night that President Donald Trump has done “nothing to help small businesses” during the coronavirus pandemic.
Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden told President Donald Trump to “shut up” several times during Tuesday night’s debate at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, the first of three matchups between the two.
Hollywood stars ripped Fox News’ Chris Wallace for his role as the moderator of the first presidential debate on Tuesday, saying that the news anchor was too timid and lost control of the proceedings as President Donald Trump took control of the stage through sheer force of will.
CLAIM: President Donald Trump votes via a mail-in-ballot. VERDICT: FALSE. The president votes using an absentee ballot and has done so for years.
During CNN’s coverage of Tuesday’s presidential debate, host Jake Tapper stated that he received a text from one of his friends that their sixth-grade daughter burst into tears and had to run to bed because the girl was “so appalled” by
Telemundo’s Spanish-speaking viewers reported two-to-one that Donald Trump won the combative presidential debate on Tuesday night.
Did Trump cause a recession in Japan, Germany, and the U.K. also?
Several prominent journalists and political commentators took to social media on Tuesday to share their frustration with moderator Chris Wallace’s performance during the first of three presidential debates between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden.
During CNN’s coverage of Tuesday’s presidential debate, 2020 Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) refused to say whether she supports expanding the size of the Supreme Court if Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed and
Former Vice President Joe Biden said during the presidential debate on Tuesday night that, under his administration, the country will not build any more coal or oil plants in America.
Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden broke with Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) coalition of progressives during the first presidential debate on Tuesday night.
Left-wing Hollywood celebrities flew into a collective rage during the first presidential debate on Tuesday as President Donald Trump took an aggressive, no holds barred approach to battling Joe Biden.
Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed to not support the Green New Deal during Tuesday’s presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio.
MSNBC’s Joy Reid said Tuesday night during the network’s presidential debate analysis that President Donald Trump was “a diminished character,” adding “he seemed out of control.”
CLAIM: Joe Biden (D) claimed that “no one has established” that there is fraud related to mail-in voting.
Former Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday evening during the first presidential debate that he has a vision of police showing up to 911 calls with psychologists and psychiatrists who can “keep them from having to use force.”
President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden met face to face on Tuesday in Cleveland for the first of three presidential debates, during which Trump attacked Biden’s record with Black Americans.