Expected bar room fight was little slap
AMERICA was anticipating a bloody bar room brawl when Donald Trump and Joe Biden finally showed up, but all they got was a debate.
Following their shameful first head-to-head full off interruptions and insults, organisers installed a mute button on their mics. All it did however was amplify the two men’s huge differences.
Trump was much more restrained than before giving his best debate performance. What he lacked in substance he made up for with swagger.
Unable to interject as before he instead made Charlie Chaplin’s silent movie expressions look amateur as he performed dramatic head nods, eye-rolling, smirks and grimaces as Biden spoke. The
President though was unable to step away from making unsubstantiated claims about his leadership or baseless attacks on Biden. Both were to his detriment.
As the night wore on Trump began to badger his opponent with aggression, casting Biden as a failed career politician saying he was “all talk and no action”.
But while he tried to mock or belittle his rival, the former Vice President remained focused in setting out his vision for the next four years with clear policies – an area in which Trump floundered.
By the end of the debate, it was unclear whether the head-to-head was enough to change the shape of the race.
Trump had desperately needed to land a punch that could help him bridge what is now a double-digit gap in the polls, instead he simply gave Democrat Biden a slap.