US Presidential Election: The change got here in direction of the top of the controversy.
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A nasty tempered and unedifying US presidential debate between the 2 oldest candidates ever to run for workplace degenerated right into a squabble over {golfing} prowess on Thursday.
The primary head-to-head in an already painfully lengthy marketing campaign noticed 81-year-old Joe Biden and his 78-year-old challenger Donald Trump commerce insults and accusations for 90 minutes on prime time tv.
There was name-calling: “You are the worst!” “No, YOU’RE the worst!”
There have been accusations: “You are a whiner!”
After which they fought over their golf handicaps.
“He cannot hit a ball 50 yards,” stated Trump, on one of many few events the 2 males straight addressed one another.
“He challenged me to a golf match. He cannot hit a ball 50 yards.”
Trump’s personal vitality was by no means in query, he boasted, insisting “I am in pretty much as good a form as I used to be years in the past.”
To not be outdone over his placing prowess, Biden insisted he was sport on the inexperienced.
“I would be glad to have a driving contest,” he stated. “I received my handicap once I was the vice chairman right down to a six.”
Trump scoffed.
“A six handicap?” he snorted. “I’ve seen your swing. I do know your swing.”
The change got here in direction of the top of the CNN-hosted debate, which had began with out the handshake that’s customary on such events and gone downhill from there.
The animosity between the 2 males was palpable, with Biden taking an early swing at a person he stated had “the morals of an alley cat.”
“What number of billions of {dollars} do you owe in civil penalties for molesting a girl in public… for having intercourse with a porn star… whereas your spouse was pregnant,” he stated, in reference to Trump’s alleged dalliance with grownup movie actress Stormy Daniels.
The Republican former president once more denied adultery, however a New York jury discovered him responsible of 34 counts of falsifying enterprise information to cowl up hush-money funds to her.
Trump wasted few possibilities to hammer house his declare that Biden was “weak” and never “a frontrunner.”
He additionally took purpose at Biden’s perceived psychological frailties, a problem that polls repeatedly present voters are involved about.
“I took two exams, cognitive exams. I aced them, each of them, as you recognize, we made it public,” he stated.
“He took none. I would prefer to see him take one, only one, an actual straightforward one, like undergo the primary 5 questions. He could not do it.”
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