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34 telling reactions to the slow car crash of the first 2024 US Presidential Debate

Oonagh Keating. Updated June 28th, 2024

Despite neither man being the official nominee for his party, the first presidential debate of 2024 has taken place between the incumbent, Joe Biden, and the Republican challenger, Donald Trump.

The debate was hosted by CNN in their Atlanta studios and moderated by Dana Bash and Jake Tapper, who could almost have been replaced by a recording of the questions for all the actual moderating they did.

Although neither candidate really covered themselves in glory, Biden’s biggest issues were a hoarse voice and a failure to push back on all the lies told by Trump. Trump’s biggest issue was all the lying.

Here are a few of those lies –

There was perfect water and air under him. “We had H2O.”

The world respected the U.S. on January 6th.

Experts have agreed he is the best President.

Joe Biden has given the US its biggest trade deficit with China.

Trump got the price of insulin down.

The economy was ‘perfect’ when he left.

Biden had him indicted as political interference.

That old Trump favourite – the ‘stolen’ election.

Democrats will claim a Biden win, while Republicans insist their guy aced it – like his cognitive tests. The real winner was Twitter/X’s engagement figures.

These reactions paint the best picture of how it went.

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