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The Daily Telegraph is a conservative, center right newspaper. Like the NY Post. Is that the best you can do? What did the Financial Times say about the town halls? or The [London] Times? That would be a better source for what they're thinking across the Atlantic. Try to learn something.
Would you be willing to have them do another? But have the same hate fullness or calmness as what happened that night?
And you might, but the responses would be 180. Learn something.
Maybe he should resist re-tweeting some of the garbage he promotes? Re-tweeting something is promoting it.
No, it's bringing attention to a topic the mainstream mockingbird media ignores. Then people who are curious can do their own research and make up their own minds
Biden - Still "iffy" on the court-packing question. He was right in that there's no good way to answer. I don't think he WANTS to pack the courts but a good chunk of his base will push him if/when Coney Barrett is confirmed. McConnell blocked 100+ Obama judicial appointments, blocked Merrick Garland (with 9 months to go before an election) and is now trying to push ACB through. Nothing wrong with playing hardball but don't complain if Joe wins the WH and adds 4 (or 6) justices.
Otherwise, he was pretty straightforward on his plans. Whether you agree with him or not, you walked away knowing what he wants to do.
Trump - I don't think Guthrie was any harder on him than Stephanopoulous was on Biden. Trump performs best when he can speak freely in platitudes. In situations where he has to provide specifics, he's just not very effective. The health care part really stuck out. Getting rid of ACA but not having a true backup plan after 4 years is quite telling. The white supremacy stuff? I don't think he cares much except for the fact that he KNOWS that segment of the population will vote for him exclusively over Biden. He's likely to get trounced in the election but if the klansmen and neo-nazis don't show up for him....he's beyond toast. He could easily say "I denounce all white supremacists groups from the klan to neo nazis, aryan brotherhood etc." Just say that and be done with it. He won't because he needs their votes just to have a chance.
My guess is that anyone already inclined to vote for Trump, is going to do so based on last night. People that are truly undecided....those don't exist. If they do exist, they would pick Biden over Trump...if they only watched the town halls. Trump is flailing right now because he's too reliant on a deep but narrow base. Biden has to balance far more constituencies but it also gives him more ways to skin the cat...so to speak.
Did Biden getting talk over by the host? Nope.
What about in Trump? You bet. Even little kids who saw the townhall questioned why she not allow Trump to answers the questions.
There's a big difference in asking a question and another with what Guthrie did. One of the first things she addressed was to ask him to denounce white supremacy. How many times has he been asked to denounce white supremacy in the past 5 years? Any "journalist" would have know it has been too many times. So she started off by baiting Trump. We know the reason why he is continually asked to denounce white suprmeacy. By the very question, it is slyly framing him as a white supremacist, without actually accusing him to his face
It's disgusting.
Then, the demand he renounce Qanon. When Trump said he didn't know much about them, she had the nerve to shout "Yes, you do!" which led to a "No, I don't" and again she shouted "Yes, you do!". Sorry, that is not an interview. More like an interrogation.
There is a way to ask hard hitting and insightful questions and follow up. No one has an issue with that. But the disrespect shown to our President (did she actually refer to him as a crazy uncle?) and her shrill antagonism and constant interruptions were totally outside what is considered professional moderating.
What you're saying is that Trump can dish it out but can't take it. Our president shows no respect to anyone. Respect is not a given even with a president, it is earned.
And NBC moved her so she would be visible behind Trump. Apparently they assumed she would be a Biden supporter.
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