This Sunday’s debate between presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton was the charged, passionate encounter that most Americans had been expecting since the tepid session of statements and admittances seen in these two polar opposites’ earlier debate. The floor was opened without either candidate’s reaching to shake the other’s hand. Trump opened immediately an offensive front against Clinton, impugning her pervious political history and character—a “tremendous hate in her heart.”
Trump adduced Bill Clinton’s abuses of women and claimed that Hillary had, too, attacked them. This comes after Clinton had directed eyes toward Trump’s own rather chauvinistic remarks on talk shows regarding his sexual life, so either claim served to extenuate the other’s apparent wrongdoing.
Clinton rejoined indirectly by referring to Trump’s apathy toward those he has offended with offhand, usually impulsive speech: falsely claiming President Obama wasn’t born in the US; repudiating a judge’s decisions because he was Hispanic and, therefore, to Trump, biased; mocking disabled reporters; and attacking minority groups of all religions and ethnicities. She said that “he never apologizes.”
Moreover, the debate had deeper ramifications at steak. Republican members of congress watched the debate closely to deliberate and decide whether they should remain backers of the Trump or not, in view of many already having left the candidate’s notorious campaign.
But Trump continued to harangue Hillary, continually interrupting her. He declared that she “should be ashamed” for her having deleted several emails as secretary of state. However, he would explode still later on. He continued his message of painting Clinton as “just words, folks; no action” and actively dismissing her accusations, claiming she had no room to speak for having a career of thirty years with no record of accomplishment.
As Trump erupted, Hillary became more serene, especially toward her audience. It correlates with her strategy of identifying directly with the great number of undecided voters watching the program.
The debate continued to cover the current situation in the Levant, but it all came to a resolution when the two candidates were asked to find something to compliment each other on. Clinton complimented Trump’s family and its reflection upon him as a father, and Trump cited Clinton’s determination as admirable. The debate then concluded, and the two finally shook hands.