Poll of the Day > Presidential Town Hall: Trump or Biden Edition

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https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/14/politics/donald-trump-nbc-town-hall/index.html

President Donald Trump will participate in a town hall with NBC News on Thursday night, setting up a competing television event with Joe Biden in lieu of a presidential debate in which voters would have seen both presidential candidates engage with each other and discuss issues head-to-head.

Biden is set to appear in an ABC town hall, and both events are scheduled for 8 p.m. ET. The two were originally scheduled to participate in a second debate, but the event was eventually canceled after Trump objected to the virtual format announced by the Commission on Presidential Debates in light of Trump's positive coronavirus diagnosis.

I imagine that both events will be readily accessible after the fact, so the fact that they're both happening at the same time won't necessarily mean people can't see both. However, you can expect people to make a big deal over claims of differences in viewership.

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Not really interested in the candidates themselves as I've already made up my mind. I am more interested in how they interact with each other. Neither Town Hall will be as interesting as a debate would have been.

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You can bet news outlets will make a big deal about which of the two candidates had the greater viewership.

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both because they'll both be online?

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Wanded posted...

both because they'll both be online?

The topic question was which you'll watch *LIVE*. Or are you planning on having both running at once? =p

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8-8-8

Town Halls start in an hour and a half?

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NBC Town Hall with Trump:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pL3f-3QqC8

ABC Town Hall with Biden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZZzfrapNvo

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I doubt anybody was really tracking this topic, but I did finally comment on the debate in Judmentl's topic instead.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/79042726

My closing thoughts were:

Zeus_LLC posted...

So I've watched both of them and, all things considered, that "two hour" Biden Town Hall might have been barely over an hour when you took out all of the breaks. That was fucking insane.

The Trump "Town Hall" was basically a one-on-one interview for the first half, then a town hall for the second. When pressed, Trump once again denounced white supremacists and mentioned his commitment to denouncing white supremacists. When pushed on QAnon, he never gave a straight answer and instead argued that he didn't know enough about them to say anything like that. The moderator kept on Trump the whole time, frequently interrupting his responses. While there was *some* benefit to it -- in terms of trying to get harder answers -- it heavily detracted from from the time he should have been using to answer questions from audience members.

The Biden Town Hall was the complete opposite. Biden was given audience questions from the get-go with relatively little interruption from George early on. George did press him on a few things, but we didn't really get answers in many of those cases. In the early going, Biden was very composed, but that gradually faded as the town hall continued and some of his responses had some noticeable fumbles and a few moments seemed borderline incoherent. I half feel that the commercial breaks were there to give him a break because they seemed to pick up in frequency the more he began to exhibit problems.

I'm not sure either town hall had much of a high point, but the respective low points were Trump's QAnon response and Biden's desperate, incoherent answer to that young black voter who talked about many black voters choosing between voting for Biden or not voting at all. Thankfully that whole exchange didn't end with his offer to continue the discussion afterward, because that would have been a way to go out.

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Biden's.

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These two are quite possibly the worst presidential candidate ever. They both share the same views on certain topics and they're both throwbacks to an Era that America should have passed long ago. Trump can't bring himself to denounce hate groups and Biden is just a goofier albeit more dangerous version of Bill Clinton.

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hur dur "I don't use twitter I use social media"

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BUMPED2002 posted...

These two are quite possibly the worst presidential candidate ever.

Not even close. For starters, Biden is far more qualified than Hillary ever was, so even among the candidates in the general election he can't be the worst just looking at the last election. In general, there have been a lot of terrible candidacies resulting in a lopsided election result.

BUMPED2002 posted...

They both share the same views on certain topics

Literally every pair of politicians share the same views on certain topics. For instance, every president since at least the 1900s has been opposed to slavery.

BUMPED2002 posted...

both throwbacks to an Era that America should have passed long ago.

We haven't moved away from the SJW era.

BUMPED2002 posted...

Trump can't bring himself to denounce hate groups

Even overlooking the fact he denounced hate groups repeatedly in the past, even in the last debate he denounced them. This claim is a shitty meme.

BUMPED2002 posted...

Biden is just a goofier albeit more dangerous version of Bill Clinton.

Not a very well-founded claim, although saying somebody is a second coming of Clinton would make them more popular than a second coming of Obama.

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BUMPED2002 posted...

Trump can't bring himself to denounce hate groups

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpNoU5W-RwQ

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I'm kinda over giving the cheeto supremacist a platform. Not a huge fan of Biden but it is remarkable how much more professional he is when speaking.

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