translated from Spanish: Filo.Mundo Presidential debates between Trump and Biden, explained

If you thought that this 2020 had already generated a sufficient amount of anguish and stress in much of the planet, on Tuesday, November 3, the United States elects President.In the run-up to the event that will determine whether Donald Trump will be re-elected to the head of the White House or relieved in office by Democrat Joe Biden, candidates say present in the classic and long-awaited presidential debates.

The tradition of debates premiered in the US. U.S. back in 1960

In this final stretch that many think of as the Super Bowl of democracy Trump and Biden, Biden and Trump are going to be protagonists of the show that the national idiosyncrasy itself combines, in the face of an election that will undoubtedly follow closely the whole world.

With more than 200,00 coronavirus deaths, a historic economic recession, claims for racial violence more present than ever, and a country suffering in its own flesh the effects of global warming, it seems to make sense that those who aspire to preside over the United States since 20 January next tell what they plan to do about these and other points. As the Commission has been organising these events in an official and secluded manner since 1988, all discussions will be divided into six 15-minute segments.  Each topic of these blocks is chosen and announced by the moderators a week earlier, so there will be two minutes per candidate to answer, at best, whatever they are asked. The latter always raises doubts and after the first of the meetings seems to have demonstrated its fundamentals.

In what was soon classified as the worst debate in history, Trump and Biden, in that order, shouted and interrupted about issues such as: Coronavirus; Supreme Court of Justice, Economy, Racism and Violence in Cities; candidate registrations and electoral integrity. In the second of the discussions, which in this case will be October 22 in Miami, although the times will be the same, the format will seek to be a kind of open lobby and the questions will come to a large extent from the citizens of the place that hostesses the event. Now, even though the Trump-Biden debate has been the most watched in history, the number, like everyone else, can be thought of in different ways. 

The latter is especially important when we take into account that the United States has its particularities. In a country where it is not mandatory to vote but you can have an opinion in polls or the president who wins the election can get fewer votes than the one who loses them leaves all the statistics you can see offside. So how much do these events matter or influence the final development of an election? In many countries the debates became a kind of forced passage of democracy but often not knowing where. In Latin America, for example, the first were in Venezuela and Brazil back in the 1960s, whereadays there are four countries with legislation on the subject that require a presidential debate. However, in an instance of partarian choice, doubts would seem resolved in advance. By the time we reach a cross between a Democrat and another Republican, in general, of the country’s 50 states, few tend to change their vote. 

So as to their real impact the truth is that the debates of the presidential election are not like those of the primaries while it is supposed that the majority of viewers about who they are going to vote for and few are going to change this so that it can happenNow well, having in Trump and Biden two specialists in saying things out of place we can also not bring importance not only to these three days but to the after and what we saw of how the debate of the debate may end up tipping the scales for some undecided one. With a president in the middle of the pandemic, he understands voting by mail as synonymous with fraud and does not ensure a peaceful transition in the event of a loss, elections are getting closer. Outside of any debate, survey, or early vote, the only sure thing is that you’ll have to wait until November 3 (at best) to find out who’s going to be the next president of the United States. 

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