Popcorn, Pizza and the Theater of Debate

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

83% : Biden boasted his achievements, and Trump told us what a great job he did and is going to do again after he's elected.
64% : This non-support for Trump was to be expected since Oakland, and the San Francisco Bay Area in general, is generally progressive.
48% : "He (Trump) had the largest national debt of any president's four-year period," Biden said, and reminded us of Trump's tax cut which "benefited the very wealthy.
47% : Both Biden and Trump both scored some points, though not many.
43% : He did beat Medicaid.
42% : A moderator had asked Trump about the national debt, and after his response, turned to Biden.
38% : But when Trump says "immigrants," it sounds like he's really using that as a code word meaning non-white.
34% : And he's destroying Medicare.
33% : On the topic of the Middle East, Trump used 'Palestinian' as a pejorative, and said, "He's become like a Palestinian.
29% : It got even worse as he partially reconnected and gasped out the words: "We finally beat Medicare!" "Thank you, President Biden," said the moderator, and turned to Trump who gleefully pounced on Biden's misspoken words, saying: "Well, he's right!
24% : "He allowed millions of people to come in here from prisons, jails and mental institutions to come into our country and destroy our country," Trump asserted.
17% : Biden called Trump a criminal, "The only person on this stage that is a convicted felon is the man I'm looking at right now!"
15% : " Was Biden debating Trump? -- or was he fending off some ghostly voices of doom?
11% : He also called Trump a "whiner," and even hinted that Trump was too fat.
10% : Trump countered with reminding Biden of the criminal activities of his son Hunter Biden, and of Joe Biden's role in supporting his son's Burisma affair.

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