Starting at three in the morning, Italian time, it will be staged the first televised debate between the two candidates for the presidency of the United States: the Republican Donald Trump and the democrat Joe Biden.
The clash will take place in Cleveland, Ohio, and will follow a series of rules that are unprecedented in the history of American face-to-face meetings: Covid requires avoid handshake (although, four years ago, Trump still avoided shaking hands with Hillary Clinton).
The so-called is not even foreseen opening statement: the opening speech that put the candidates at ease.
However, respecting the safety distances will allow the two candidates and the moderator Chris Wallace to overlook the use of the mask (another habit that Trump never had anyway).
The debate will focus on six topics:
- life and politics of Biden and Trump;
- the pandemic;
- the Supreme Court (with the controversial appointment of super-conservative Amy Coney Barrett to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal icon who died on September 18);
- the economy (with over 30 million unemployed due to the Covid-triggered recession);
- racial riots and the violence in American cities;
- voting by mail and respect for democratic rules for a possible peaceful changeover after the vote (although Trump has already said more than once that, in case of defeat, he would appeal to the Supreme Court: the same one which, precisely thanks to Barrett's nomination from part of the incumbent President, now enjoys a solid Conservative majority).
Trump will come on stage in trouble after that the revelations of New York Times on your tax returns. The newspaper let the world know that in the span of 12 years the American President has paid the US tax authorities just 750 dollars. But the most disturbing revelation is that Trump turns out burdened by 420 million in debt: Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Speaker of the House, said that a president deeply in debt and also exposed to foreign banks "is a problem for national security", as blackmailable. "All fake news”, Trump retorted.
Biden's approach to the debate was less agitated: "I am serene - he said - for me, unlike the President, to win it is enough to tell the truth".
