After the Last Presidential Debate

 The Last Presidential debate for the 2020 Presidential Election between incumbent President Trump and former Vice President Biden. This debate strikes a very different tone from the first debate. The ability for the microphones to be muted certainly helped. Both candidates took a different strategy during the debate from the previous debate.

Trump's strategy seemed to be focused solely attacking Biden on all fronts. Even when ask how he would address the country should he win, he still managed to attack Biden.

Biden meanwhile, seem to employ a more flexible strategy. Biden's strategy seemed to be defend as a stalling tactic, but was able to turn the tables and launch a counter attack on Trump about half way through the debate.

Biden's strategy seems to be the more sound debating strategy. Not only do people say that a good defense is a good offense, but it is also said that people typically remember the end of a speech/programing the most. Biden's strategy seemed to play to this by ensuring that his last words in the debate were on character and that he has a better character to be president than Trump.

Over all, I think Biden won the debate. His strategy seem to not only be a more sound strategy, but also displayed a greater flexibility to react to the developing debate. Trump seemed more focused on attacking Biden, rather than defending any of his own positions. Also Trump repeated talking points from 2016, which in my opinion is a lazy strategy, along with Trump projecting his problems and faults on Biden. Just not sound debating tactics.

If I had to give them a grade, Biden gets an 8/10 (a B-) and Trump gets a 7/10 (a C-). Both of them greatly improved from their first debate, but Biden improved more and he improved were it counts, his delivery, his content, his responses, etc. Trump only improved in his delivery, the mechanics, the how of his deliver, not the content, the what he delivers. A decent delivery only goes as far as how good one's content is. And Trump did not improve his content.

If you want their policies, just watch the debate, but it is pretty much everything we already knew. Plus its not like the first one, which was unbearable to watch. You can actually watch this one.

-Jonathan Berry

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  1. ElsbridgeStationOctober 22, 2020 at 10:08 PM

    This debate was certainly better than the first debate. Not to mention Biden did well at countering Trump's attacks and then making his own counter attack. A very good debate from Biden.

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