Poll: Who won last night's US election debate?

@my name: Biden spoke about transitioning to solar and wind renewables which is what is needed. Vested interests in the oil industry would not be happy but even they know their fossil fuel days are numbered!

@my name: like thats bad thing

@Cupid Stunt: going forward it’s not a bad thing but to announce a big statement like that in the States just over a week out from the election when he’s never mentioned it before? Not a good political move at all

@my name: that’s been bidens position for years

@bmul: listen to the tone of the moderators voice when she asks him about it. That’s enough to tell you it wasn’t a good idea to say what he did

@my name: have we gone from hunter bidens emails to oil? The agenda will back on coronavirus before the election as numbers are climbing steadily over there.

@Fionn Darland: The Oil industry are putting billion into green energy and know well what is happening

@Brian Madden: hunters emails will be a welcome distraction from those oil comments. But to answer I’m staying on topic and commenting on the debate. You however and still on the whataboutery train

@my name: he spoke about it at the last debate too. He gave an honest answer that may hurt him at the polls. Is the suggestion that he should have lied instead?

@Dave O’Keeffe: no clue where you got that from Dave. If (in your words) it hurts him in the polls, the all knowing polls, then you back up what I’m saying here. It wasn’t a good political move. They’d basically moved on from that topic and he dropped that statement

@Dave O’Keeffe: Hurt him in the polls by losing Texas, North Dakota, Louisiana, Montana and Alaska? Oh please, he was likely never going to win in those states anyway as they are solid republican, he hasn’t done damage to his voting base in Democratic states, leaning Democratic states or swing states. The oil comment is pretty immaterial for Joe being being completely honest. The only Democratic states with major oil industries are California and New Mexico and he’s not going to lose there because of that alone.

@my name: “the all knowing polls” you’re being flippant but I was actually referring to the polls on polling day. Yes, the all knowing ones. Either you want a politician to be tell the truth or say nothing and do the unpopular thing after.

@my name: Not a good move. And Trump jumped right on it.

@Brian Lenehan: Consenting adults! He was told she was 15 years old!

@Brian Lenehan: relax mush

@Brian Lenehan: I watched it. I saw a very mediocre performance from Biden. But, Trump came across as – at the same time – sociopathic (who says “good” on live TV about children being torn away from their families?), childish (that high-pitched, tantrum mimicry he was doing towards the end), lacking in a sense of humour (how he didn’t get the Abe Lincoln joke is beyond me), completely disconnected from reality (a good lot of the questions directed towards him, he didn’t even answer and instead spoke about other topics as if he either didn’t understand the questions, didn’t have answers for the questions or was away in his own little world). Even Fox have called the debate a tie and early polling has shown Biden has received a slight boost while Trump has taken another hit in popularity.

@Stephen Smith: The girl was ” a 24-year-old actress, Maria Bakalova… playing Borat’s 15-year-old daughter, Tutar; Tutar, in turn, is pretending to be an of-age journalist”. https://slate.com/culture/2020/10/borat-giuliani-sacha-baron-cohen-video-analyzed.html

@Brian Ó Dálaigh: he is a verified narcissistic tho!

@Brian Ó Dálaigh: “good” was in reference to moving on to next topic, let’s not make stuff up !
Also the IQ remark was referring to the catch n release program for emigrants over staying, he was saying nobody turns up for there set hearings just the ones with low IQ , I note the journal misrepresented this in previous article

Let’s have the facts not the political bias spin

@Aaron Jones: Borat” stick to marrying your cousins” Rudy should have copped that remark lol..

@Al.Dunne: “good” sounded very much to me like he was referencing the situation with the children. It was spoken before Welker had even finished speaking about moving on to the next topic. And, I’m not the only one who spotted it. If Trump had any sort of cop on he would never have uttered that word at that point in the conversation as he should have known how it would appear. In other words, he was either callous and cold or completely oblivious to perception and reality, neither of which are good presidential qualities. As for the IQ remark – I never mentioned that.

@Brian Lenehan: Trump going on about Obama as usual.

@Brian Lenehan: Sure, sure, its all a left wing conspiracy as all the screw up the lot of them have made. Keep drinking the Kool Aid

@Brian Ó Dálaigh: That is all Biden had to do, let him hang himself, stay calm and put in his shots neatly. He did all of that.

@Brian Ó Dálaigh: it may have been bad timing cause trump can’t shut up , but why would he say that when he just spent 5 mins pointing out Obama built the cages n policy and that he has reversed it! He’s not stupid but to me it shows the media bias on attempting to interpret in that way, cheap click bait

On the IQ thing I know I was just being lazy and not putting up 2 posts but again it shows how left leaning media want to spin things in favour of there guy! This annoys me from both camps , as they say the truth is usually somewhere in between

@Al.Dunne: that’s just backing up one of my other points, though. The question was about the 500 or so children who have been taken from their parents by his administration and now this same administration can’t find those parents. The question was not about who built the cages, which means he didn’t answer the question and was oblivious to what he was being asked or he was trying to hide something. It’s not a good sign when you can’t answer a simple question with a straightforward answer.

@Brian Lenehan: The point about Giuliani which you don’t get, obviously is how easily Giuliani was duped into an uncompromising position. This is the man who supposedly got the “hard drive from hell” lol. Mr Trump paid more taxes in China than the US. The thing is Giuliani had his day in the sun 19 years ago since then he has just devolved into a sycophant sleazy operator. Fox News would not even run with the laptop story. That says it all!
Maybe when the video of the golden douche loving orange man, receiving his desire from Olga Slashalloverya makes an appearance people will be interested.

@Brian Lenehan: All Biden had to do was say nothing and watch trump dig his own grave…

@Brian Ó Dálaigh: well who built n put policy is legitimate context imo, but where are these parents ? Would u not be looking for your kids ? It’s not like they are playing hiding go seek !
Where these kids to be trafficked! If so they are safer now than before !

@Brian Lenehan: I think what let him down was his stammer. I think he did quite well considering and if you wanted to choose between them I’d say Biden was better. He stuck to the point. Trump couldn’t even answer the first question.

@Brian Ó Dálaigh: You didn’t mention IQ because you’re IQ is way higher:)

@DeWitt: I thought the very same thing when I saw Biden first walk out onto the stage. He improved slightly, but he had quite a few failings in some of his answers.

@Brian Madden: They may say they are against fracking but Biden’s comment was to move away from oil entirely.
The USA is oil independent and the industry employs many people in states like PA and Texas.
I think Biden needed to explain how he would replace those jobs.
People still vote with their wallets at the end of the day.

@die Fussballmeister: he said he was immune

@James Brady: That is what the numbers are showing at present and it has been long enough to get a decent picture of the long term issues

@die Fussballmeister: google 17 year old jack from Dublin. He was put in a coma and had to learn to walk again, suffering long term nerve damage and pain. He gave an interview to RTÉ.

@Brian Ó Dálaigh: ok faceless