Neither candidate, however, presented policies that could help sway undecided voters.
WASHINGTON – US President Joe Biden’s unsure and halting performance in the first presidential debate of 2024 has stirred speculation that the Democratic Party may have to find a replacement, who will have barely four months to beat Donald Trump in the November election.
Inflation, jobs, immigration, and the Ukraine and Gaza wars dominated the discussion. But neither candidate presented policies that could help sway undecided voters. Most fact-checkers pointed out that Trump’s responses were sweeping and full of inaccuracies. He repeatedly ducked moderators’ questions to regurgitate his criticisms of Mr Biden.
“Trump was not perfect himself, but he was a little more controlled than he had been in past debates,” he said, adding that the rules calling for muting microphones at the end of questioning may have benefited him a bit. However, ahead of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, then President Lyndon B. Johnson withdrew from the race for a second term ahead of the Wisconsin primary election to avoid the embarrassment of an incumbent losing a party primary.
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