Here we go, the first Presidential debate between Biden and Trump begins at 9 PM Eastern/6 PM Pacific.
How to watch it:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/25/politics/how-to-watch-cnn-debate/index.html
"The CNN Presidential Debate will air live on CNN, CNN International and CNN en Español, and via streaming on Max for subscribers and without a cable login on CNN.com. CNN will make the debate available to simulcast on additional broadcast and cable news networks.
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"According to parameters set by CNN in May, all participating debaters had to appear on a sufficient number of state ballots to reach the 270 electoral vote threshold to win the presidency and receive at least 15% in four separate national polls of registered or likely voters that meet CNN’s standards for reporting.
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Edit And that’s it! Thanks for watching everyone!
tl;dw:
Consensus is Trump didn’t so much as beat Biden as Biden beat himself.
The real loser is CNN who failed to fact check anyone, and there were obvious fact checks on both sides.
Serious question, for anyone masochistic enough to still be watching: Has Biden’s performance improved enough to negate the moment that will be on every GOP attack ad for the next 5 months, or does he still look like he needs to be walked back into his room and told that no, it’s not 1975 any more…
Enough? No.
Edit: It’s really not good. He’s pulled it together a bit, but there’s no way around it. At least Trump unraveled to his usual form. It would’ve been worse if he kept his composure he had in the first 15 minutes. My heart sank when Joe looked like he was watching cartoons dance around the room and TRUMP was the cool and reserved candidate.
Not really. Still muttering.
He got a little more energetic, but not enough, really.
I watched the whole thing even though I knew it was done within the first 4 minutes. I hope to be able to vote for whichever democrat replaces Biden as the nominee.
His performance has improved tremendously, but the damage may have already been done. I’m wondering how many people kept watching past the first 20 minutes.
Agreed. One strategist on PBS pre-debate show put it succinctly: “The debate is won or lost in the first 30 minutes.”
I made it about five minutes. Embarrassing to watch Biden stumble around and Trump just non-stop lie as usual.
No, not really. He still looks confused and is still muttering.
Yes. Stop helping the fash.