US presidential election: Joe Biden resists a combative Donald Trump during the last debate
The outgoing president needed a resounding victory to change the current dynamics of the election. It was not the case.
The last presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump did not see one but a winner, moderator Kristen Welker. A little less than a month after the chaos caused during the first face-to-face meeting by the incessant interruptions of the outgoing president, which Chris Wallace, for all his experience, had been unable to contain, the NBC reporter imposed herself. like an efficient metronome. The Presidential Debates Committee's decision to cut candidates' mikes when they were not invited to speak at the start of each dossier certainly worked.
The benefit of Kristen Welker's skill and this weapon of deterrence went to American citizens. This time around, they were able to hear two candidates who are almost entirely opposed to present their ideas, their vision of the United States, but also their criticisms of their adversary, in an orderly and intelligible manner.
Donald Trump will no doubt regret, in retrospect, that he did not adopt the same tactic on September 29. Energetic despite being contaminated by the coronavirus, three weeks ago the outgoing president arguably delivered one of the best performances of his brief political career.
