Trump and Biden came face to face for the first time

In the last days, Donald Trump has softened his attacks against his political rival, Joe Biden. There have been so many times that the former president has tried to ridicule the octogenarian Democrat that the fact that he doesn’t do so is news. There is a reason for the sudden change in attitude, and it is the first presidential debate which will take place tonight (three o’clock in the morning in mainland Spain). “I think he would be a capable debater.”“I don’t want to underestimate him,” Trump said on a podcast interview last week. The change in rhetoric comes after concern spread within the Republican Party that its candidate, who is still unofficial, had done so lowering the standards of decency to such a low level This could also benefit his opponent, an older politician with a cautious image, who still continues to bet on the traditional style in case of political conflict.

Trump is trying to present himself as a capable future president who knows how to rise to the occasion when needed, but the big question is whether he will succeed when the key moment arrives. In the 2020 debate, both candidates traded insults that were less personal and more derogatory. Trump accused Biden of being a “socialist” and the Democrat accused him of being a “liar.” That first face-to-face meeting was disastrous, with both speakers constantly interrupting each other and the former president even going so far as to accuse the moderator of CNN, the network organizing the debate, of not being fair. “It’s as if I’m arguing with you rather than him, though I’m not surprised.” he told host Chris Wallace when he asked him to let his opponent speak. This time the organization wanted to control the speaking turns and the microphones would only work when the speaker was speaking. The rest of the time they would be kept silent to avoid interruptions.

Verbal attacks have increased over the past four years, especially by Trump. The Republican has called his opponent a “brain-dead zombie”, “low-IQ person” and “corrupt president”, among many other insults. Biden, for his part, had stayed away from direct confrontation until recently. However, recently he has changed his strategy and on several occasions he has openly attacked his opponent, referring to him as a “loser” who “has lied about the pandemic”, or when he said he was “a grown man competing against a six-year-old boy”.

Tonight, millions of Americans will follow a debate that will show them the true face of their political choices on November 5.

Such a meeting could be crucial when the election is closer than ever and undecided voters have the power to decide the winner. “Trumpists” don’t need to be reminded why they should follow their leader, but many moderate suburban Republicans don’t want four more years of continued political division and “roller coaster.” Therefore, Trump may have problems getting the vote that hasn’t yet decided.

“The debate will be one of the first moments of this presidential campaign in which a large segment of the electorate will have the opportunity to see the tough choice between Biden, who fights for the American people, and Trump, who fights for himself,” said Michael Tyler, the Democratic presidential campaign communications director, who blames the criminal with an unbridled campaign of regency and vengeance. Biden, whom more and more voters consider too old for a second term, will also have to demonstrate tonight that he is in top condition, physically and mentally, to remain in the White House for another term. For his part, Trump will have to show that he knows how to keep his manners while playing, so as not to present himself to voters as a politician desperate to prove himself right through shouting and insults. He is expected to insist that the 2020 election was stolen from him, despite the fact that it has been proven that it wasn’t, and will likely also try to destabilize Biden, who has made more than one public gaffe in recent weeks and who was recently emotionally affected by the birth of his only son. Hunter Biden.