The first official duel between Biden and Trump; Who won the debate?

Mehr News Agency, International Group: Americans on Tuesday, November 5, 2024 (November 15, 1403 ) are coming to the polls to determine the fate of their country’s presidency for the next four years.

To determine who will enter the White House in January 2025, the current US President Joe Biden from the Democratic spectrum and the former US President Donald Trump from The Republican Party held its first debate on Thursday night, June 27 (7th of July), hosted by CNN in Atlanta; A network that is close to the Democratic Party.

In this debate, which was drawn into controversy, various domestic and foreign policy issues were discussed. In the field of foreign policy, issues such as America’s support for the Zionist regime in crimes against Gaza, Ukraine crisis, NATO, confrontation with Iran, etc., were discussed.

In the domestic sphere, issues such as Trump’s moral and financial corruption cases, Biden’s bad physical and mental condition, the performance of the two candidates during their time in the White House, immigration and Asylum seekers, abortion, inflation, insurance, taxes, Covid-19 disease (Covid-19) etc. were discussed.

The British “Guardian” newspaper in its analysis and evaluation of this debate, its four prominent points are Biden’s poor performance, Trump’s frequent lies, highlighting the division and gap in The United States of America and the case of Trump’s immoral relationship with the actor of pornographic films.

Big shock to the Democrats in the first debate

81-year-old Biden, who has been the president of the United States for three years and seven months and is about three years older than the 78-year-old Trump, the former president of the United States, in this The debate gave troublesome gaffes.

His physical weakness, distractions, and stuttering in this debate were so great that even CNN, which is close to the ruling party, pointed it out and wrote: “Biden , with a gruff voice, often unable to articulate his differences with Trump. Even partway through the debate, after Biden defended his record on border security, Trump said, “I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence… I don’t think I understood what he said!”

Biden, who always loses his way out of the ceremony and greets imaginary creatures, at the end of the debate with Trump also left the debate stage with the help of his wife Jill Biden. became. Recently, in an election campaign, former US President Barack Obama physically led Biden from the stage to the exit.

While these gaffes and weak words in Biden’s statements have attracted attention, some people close to the American president try to attribute his weaknesses in the debate to his suffering from Communicate a cold. NBC quoted two knowledgeable sources as saying that “Biden has a cold.”

Biden’s verbal slips and weak voice, which his campaign says is due to a cold, and his sometimes slurred responses to Trump’s attacks have raised the question of whether there is any way that another person instead of Biden as the main candidate of the Democratic Party?

Experts believe that Democrats, worried about the results of the November presidential election, may abandon Biden’s candidacy, but it is necessary for him to take the first step. in this context.

CNN analyst Abby Philip, who hosted the Biden-Trump debate, said in the same news agency’s analytical program about the debate that well-known Democrats, considering Biden’s disastrous performance, They are investigating his request to resign.

He said he sees anxiety and panic in Democrats that he has never seen before. According to him, Biden’s answers were not coherent and fluent.

CNN senior analyst John King also said about this debate that the top officials of the Democratic Party are currently considering the issue of a public request for Biden to withdraw from the presidential election.

He said: The panic of the Democrats started from the first minutes of the debate and continues until now. They talk about Biden’s performance, which they think was boring.

Van Jones, Obama’s former advisor, also responded to the Biden-Trump debate and said that it is probably time for Biden to change direction (step aside) and the Democratic Party in The remaining time until the party meeting should think of a solution.

The winner of the first debate and the change in polls

The current and previous presidents of the American Republic entered the first debate with all their weaknesses and open cases. Trump entered the debate in a situation where he has been convicted of 34 charges and is scheduled to be sentenced on July 11 (July 21). Biden also has to deal with the deep frustration of the voters; It means dissatisfaction with his management in foreign policy, economy, immigration, etc.

However, before the end of the debate, the Trump campaign announced the previous president as the winner of this debate. Meanwhile, polls to measure the popularity of Trump and Biden before and after the first debate are worth considering.

Before the debate, according to the polls, the votes of Biden and Trump were very close. What do they call the competition for the White House? He examined the polls about Trump, the Republican, and Biden, the Democrat. Based on these surveys, both people had obtained 46%.

After the debate, in addition to shocking the Democrats, the polls also indicated a significant decrease in Biden’s popularity. According to “Independent”, a large majority of registered American voters for the presidential election told CNN after watching the first debate that Trump defeated Biden in the first debate.

According to a CNN poll, Biden’s poor performance in the first presidential debate led most viewers to believe that Trump came out on top.

CNN announced the results of a poll of people about the first debate between the two American presidential candidates, according to which about 67 percent of the participants said that Trump performed better in this debate and only 33% were satisfied with Biden’s performance in this debate.

A few more debates will be held until November, when the US presidential election officially kicks off and the political fate of this country will be determined for the next four years. The second debate is scheduled for September and it remains to be seen what measures the Democrats and Biden will take until then to reduce the severity of the current scandal.