10/22/2020 21:16
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Updated 10/22/2020 11:36 PM
Donald Trump and Joe Biden meet this Thursday in the second and last debate between candidates for the presidency of the United States, in a final campaign agitated by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The meeting has new rules such
as microphones muted from time to time
, to avoid the chaos of the first debate.
The dispute is in Nashville (Tennessee) and is part of the last face to face between the candidates for the White House.
The debate began after 10 pm in Argentina and will last 90 minutes.
It will be the last before the elections
on November 3.
As expected,
the coronavirus was the first topic that was discussed.
Full of crosses and chicanes, the beginning was for Trump, who defended his health policy.
He said that the country has a lower death rate than expected and lower than in other countries.
Quick Biden counterattacked: "220 thousand people died. If there is any person responsible for not controlling the situation, it is Trump and
he should not remain as president. There
are a thousand deaths a day.
He does not have any comprehensive plan. Something that I do have."
Regarding the possibilities of obtaining a vaccine, the president said that local laboratories are moving very fast and
was optimistic about having it before the end of the year.
But Biden interrupted him: "This man said that the pandemic would end at Easter,
we are going to enter a very dark winter and he has no plan," he
insisted.
At one point the 'challenger' treated Trump as
"xenophobic" and "inept."
He was also in favor of decreeing confinements based on contagion rates.
While the president replied:
"This man has no idea, he just wants to close the country"
and continued: "People are losing their jobs.
They are committing suicide, there are levels of depression, substance abuse that are gigantic.
The cure is not it can be worse than the problem itself ”.
The meeting is similar to the previous one, although with a difference: on this occasion the organizing committee of the debates, a non-partisan entity, decided that the microphone of the candidates will be turned off when their opponent makes his opening statement on each of the issues .
The second topic was on
"national security
.
"
The opposition candidate accused Rudolph Giulani, the personal lawyer of the current president, of receiving information from Russia and disseminating it in the press to try to prevent his electoral victory.
Trump, for his part, accused the former Democratic vice president of receiving money from Russia and also from China and
accused him of corruption:
"Joe got 3.5 million dollars from Russia and it came from (Vladimir) Putin because he was very friendly with the former mayor. from Moscow and was the wife of the mayor of Moscow, and you got $ 3.5 million. "
Something that Biden denied sharply.
In another passage, Biden said that if they win the elections,
Iran, Russia and China will "pay the price" for interfering in the
US
presidential elections
in November: "Russia has been involved, China has been involved to some degree and now we learn of that Iran is involved, they will pay a price if I am elected, "he threatened.
Later the Democrat compared the US government's attempt at rapprochement with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un with
attempts to appease Nazi Germany before World War II:
"We had a good relationship with
Adolf Hitler
before he invaded the rest of Europe, "he said, pointing at him.
The third block of discussion was on
"American families."
With the focus on the domestic economy and how they were affected by the pandemic.
One of those focuses was health insurance, layoffs in companies and small businesses that had to lower their blinds.
On health insurance, Trump said he will end the law promoted by his predecessor,
Barack Obama
, known as Obamacare: "What I would like to do is a new and better medical program
for health insurance that protects more people
.
"
On that subject, Biden responded: "We have to give health coverage to people at a
reasonable price
. We are going to protect pre-existing conditions.
The idea that Donald Trump gives me health insurance lessons, no man,
" he ironized.
Racial conflicts
were the fourth topic to be discussed.
The moderator consulted them about this problem and Biden affirmed that
"racism is institutionalized" from the government.
But Trump denied it and even to the contrary said that, with the exception of Abraham Lincoln, no one did more than he did for the African-American community.
"I am the least racist person in this place," he added.
Biden pointed out that Trump defended radical racist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, while the president responded that when his opponent was vice president in the Obama administration, the African-American community had one of the worst deals:
"You when you were government did nothing"
, He said.
There are six blocks of 15 minutes that will divide the meeting, the candidates have at the beginning two minutes each to present their ideas in an uninterrupted way.
Here are the topics that are also covered:
Climate change
The great absentee from the first debate.
An October Yale University poll found that 74% of Americans consider it important that climate change be addressed in presidential debates.
Leadership
A central argument of Biden's campaign is that he has extensive experience in foreign policy.
During a speech, the former vice president laid out how he would seek to restore pre-Trump international norms.
And so "to put the United States back at the top."
