You can find more information in our data protection declaration. Donald Trump and Joe Biden sparred for the last time before election day. Though both candidates had their moments, experts said Trump fared better with an unusually calm performance. An analysis by DW's Carla Bleiker. Thursday night's debate was one of the last chances Republican President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, had to appeal to a large nationwide audience.
Both men seemed to be aware of how much was at stake. Trump acted significantly more presidential than he had in recent memory, staying calm and using familiar arguments to attack Biden's record when it was his, Trump's, turn to speak — more on that in a bit. And Biden, who Trump and his supporters refer to as Sleepy Joe, was very much awake, passionately arguing against the incumbent's policies in areas like immigration and the handling of the coronavirus crisis.
This round of verbal sparring was quite a change of pace from the chaos that the first debate between the two candidates had been. Read more : US presidential election: The top 5 issues. During the first debate on September 29 , Trump constantly interrupted Biden, who picked up the habit as well, though not quite as bad. According to a tally by The Washington Post , Trump heatedly interrupted the moderator or Biden 71 times during the first debate, while Biden interrupted 22 times.
As a consequence, in the final debate each candidate had their mic muted during the initial 2-minute answer of his opponent in each of the six segments. Frank Fahrenkopf, the chair of the Commission on Presidential Debates, told The Associated Press that both the Trump and the Biden campaign had a member backstage who monitored the person controlling the mute button.
During the debate, Trump seemed to not have an issue with moderator Kristen Welker, though — on the contrary. Most polling companies have corrected this now. But this year there's even more uncertainty than normal due to the coronavirus pandemic and the effect it's having on both the economy and how people will vote in November, so all polls should be read with some scepticism.
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