No handshake, hoarse voice: Takeaways from the Biden-Trump US presidential debate

that offers voters a rare side-by-side look at the two oldest candidates ever to seek the US presidency.The leading question going into the debate was how the two men, both of whom have faced questions about their fitness for the job, would handle themselves on stage.

The bad blood between the two men was on display from the start when they eschewed the traditional handshake. Mr Biden frequently referred to Trump as “this guy” and chuckled at some of his opponent’s more hyperbolic statements. Trump replied that Mr Biden’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic was a “disaster” and said inflation was “absolutely killing us”.

Mr Biden’s challenge on June 27 was to make clear to viewers that his administration is the one that dug the country out of the pandemic-induced hole. Then, while arguing that the wealthy should pay more tax, he seemed unable to complete his sentence, pausing for an extended awkward moment, before ending his thought in a way that sounded nonsensical.

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