Key moments from tonight’s debate
They handed on a handshake in the beginning, and from there, Biden and Trump went proper to mixing it up on coverage — and one another — in their first 2024 presidential debate on Thursday night time.
Biden arrived with a raspy voice and spoke softly, the end result, his marketing campaign stated, of a chilly. Biden typically mumbled, acquired tongue-tied or misplaced his prepare of thought, a efficiency unlikely to calm anxiousness amongst Democrats and plenty of Individuals in regards to the 81-year-old president.
The 78-year-old Trump, as he typically does, spoke with drive however with plentiful falsehoods.
Right here’s a take a look at a number of the false claims made throughout Biden and Trump’s first debate
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Biden and former President Trump traded barbs and quite a lot of false and deceptive data as they confronted off of their first debate of the 2024 election.
Trump falsely represented the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol as a comparatively small quantity of people that had been ushered in by police and misstated the power of the economic system throughout his administration.
Biden, who tends to lean extra on exaggerations and elaborations fairly than outright lies, misrepresented the price of insulin and overstated what Trump stated about utilizing disinfectants to handle COVID.
Right here’s a take a look at the false and misleading claims by the two candidates
IN PHOTOS: America watches Biden and Trump debate
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Biden marketing campaign insists the president ‘began gradual however completed robust’
The Biden marketing campaign is insisting that the president “began gradual however completed robust” because it tries to assert victory within the debate.
In a memo, Biden advisers argued that the Trump’s efficiency reminded unbiased voters “why they dislike him,” whereas suggesting that Biden improved because the night time wore on.
Vice President Kamala Harris made comparable recommendations in TV appearances after the talk.
Biden’s voice was notably raspy within the debate’s early going, and he repeatedly cleared his throat all through the night time. However the president was additionally exhausting to grasp in his closing assertion, undermining recommendations that he made a lot enchancment.
Trump’s supporters, against this, had been giddy, arguing that Biden appeared befuddled and confused and that their candidate was the clear winner.
Nikki Haley stated Biden ‘is not going to be the Democrat nominee’
Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is weighing in on Biden’s debate efficiency, repeating her marketing campaign path line that the Democratic president received’t in the end be his celebration’s 2024 nominee.
Trump’s remaining competitor within the Republican main, who dropped out in March, stated on X after the talk, “Mark my phrases….Biden is not going to be the Democrat nominee.”
Haley repeatedly stated throughout her personal presidential marketing campaign that Biden wouldn’t find yourself representing his celebration on this 12 months’s election, making critiques of the president’s age and her perceptions of his stumbles in workplace.
Debate takeaways: Jan. 6, the low street and the border
Roger Strassburg, of Scottsdale, Ariz., wears a cowboy hat as he watches the presidential debate between President Joe Biden and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump at a debate watch celebration Thursday, June 27, 2024, in Scottsdale, Ariz. (AP Photograph/Ross D. Franklin)
Thursday’s presidential debate was a rerun that featured two candidates with a mixed age of 159, however it went particularly poorly for one in all them, President Joe Biden.
The talk coated a variety of subjects and included a former president — Trump — not backing down from his vows to prosecute members of Congress and even the person he was debating. However the overarching theme was the distinction between the candidates’ efficiency.
Listed here are some takeaways from the presidential face-off
Biden picks up Waffle Home
Whereas choosing up his order, he stated of his efficiency: “I believe we did effectively.” Biden additionally stated of his opponent, “It’s exhausting to debate a liar.”
His voice was raspy and he stated he had a sore throat.
A possible VP choose on who Trump will select
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a possible Trump vice presidential choose, says he doesn’t know but whom Trump will choose to affix him on the Republican ticket.
“I don’t know the reply to that and nobody’s informed me that I’m,” he stated on CNN after the talk from the spin room. “However we’ll know who it’s sooner or later in the course of the subsequent two weeks.”
Rubio stated that he thinks there are eight or 9 individuals who may do a great job within the position and that, “It actually comes right down to who the president thinks would do a great job.”
“That’s his determination to make,” he says.
Mr. Biden goes to Waffle Home
Biden, and his spouse, Jill, are on the best way to a Waffle Home restaurant to choose up meals for the airplane earlier than they fly to Raleigh, North Carolina, for a postdebate rally later Friday, the White Home says.
Harris continues to attract contrasts between Trump and Biden
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Vice President Harris in an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow once more acknowledges it was a gradual begin, “however I assumed it was a powerful end.”
“What we had in Joe Biden is somebody who wished to have a debate based mostly on information, based mostly on truths, and in Donald Trump, we now have what we’ve come to count on, which is somebody who’s going to push lies and distract from the fact of the harm he has created and continues to create in our nation,” Harris stated.
Gov. Gavin Newsom says concern over Biden’s efficiency is ‘unhelpful’
In an interview on MSNBC after the talk, California Gov. Gavin Newsom stated “there shouldn’t be” panic in his celebration.
“I believe it’s unhelpful. And I believe it’s pointless. We’ve acquired to go in, we’ve acquired to maintain our heads excessive. And as I say, we’ve acquired to have the again of this president. You don’t flip again due to one efficiency,” Newsom stated. “What sort of celebration does that?”
He continued defending Biden, saying, “This president has delivered. We have to ship for him.”
Biden departs the watch celebration
Greater than 50 minutes after he arrived at his watch celebration, Joe Biden lastly departed close to midnight to whoops from an emptying lodge ballroom.
Biden shook palms and took photos with many supporters alongside a rope line.
President Joe Biden remains to be working the gang of supporters on the lodge in Atlanta. He spoke briefly after the talk and has been chatting with individuals for greater than 40 minutes.
WATCH: Biden responds to his debate with Trump
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President Joe Biden briefly appeared at a watch celebration in Atlanta after Thursday’s debate, greeting supporters and asking them to assist beat former President Donald Trump in November.
Biden’s busy schedule
Biden has one other packed day on Friday.
After he leaves Atlanta, Biden will contact down in Raleigh, North Carolina, to be in place for a post-debate marketing campaign rally on Friday afternoon.
After that, he’ll head to New York and New Jersey for marketing campaign fundraisers on Friday and Saturday.
Trump is ‘on offense’
Trump co-campaign chief Chris LaCivita referred to as the talk “added rocket gasoline” for Trump’s upcoming go to to Virginia. A state Trump has misplaced twice, LaCivita stated it’s now in play.
He stated he thinks Minnesota, one other state Trump has misplaced twice, may be in play. “We’re on offense, make no mistake about it,” LaCivita stated.
LaCivita dismissed chatter about whether or not Democrats would attempt to nominate somebody aside from Biden. “There’s so many political consultants on X, so we’ll hear so much from them, I’m positive, within the subsequent few days as a result of they’ve all run so many campaigns,” LaCivita stated sarcastically.
“However the one approach that occurs is that if Joe Biden voluntarily steps down, and he’s not going to do this.”
WATCH: Presidential debate watch celebration viewers weigh in on Biden and Trump’s performances
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Voters at presidential debate watch events in Michigan and Las Vegas weighed in on their reactions to the talk. (AP video by Mike Householder and Ty ONeil)
CNN’s moderators didn’t do a lot moderating tonight
Jake Tapper and Dana Bash requested questions and never rather more, as the 2 candidates primarily carried the present on their very own.
Hardly ever did the moderators bounce in and minimize off or problem an announcement from Trump or Biden, and the candidates solely fleetingly interacted instantly with Bash and Tapper aside from listening to (and solely typically answering) their questions.
It was a stark distinction from debates in earlier presidential election years when different candidates — notably Trump — jostled at instances with moderators.
For 90 minutes, Trump and Biden had been largely left to do their factor.
Harris says she thinks the selection will not be the talk, however November
Harris appeared irritated by the deal with Biden’s efficiency, telling CNN’s Anderson Cooper: “I acquired that that is the after play for the talk, this dialog that I’m in, and I perceive why everybody needs to speak about it.”
“However I believe it’s additionally vital to acknowledge that the selection in November between these two those that had been on the talk stage concerned extraordinary stakes. And there’s one particular person on that stage who has the endorsement of their vice chairman, and that’s Joe Biden. Mike Pence is nowhere to be discovered.”
When is the following presidential debate?
Questioning how the second debate would possibly differ from tonight’s? You’re going to have to attend awhile.
Biden and Trump’s second debate is scheduled for Sept. 10 on ABC. The community hasn’t but launched particulars on the format.
Thursday’s faceoff was the earliest basic election presidential debate ever. The second can be early, and can be held greater than six weeks earlier than Election Day.
Civil rights organizations appeared onto the talk with dismay
Trump and Biden used problems with race, immigration and crime to commerce private barbs that always distorted information and sidestepped points central to the issues of many Black and Hispanic voters.
“As Black Individuals face a number of the most difficult obstacles of our time, we want candidates who’re much less targeted on attacking one another and extra targeted on attacking the problems,” stated Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the Nationwide Affiliation for the Development of Coloured Individuals.
“There have been some feedback right here from Donald Trump that our members right here have rejected outright,” stated Juan Proaño, president of the League of United Latin American Residents.
Biden’s secret sauce
Shortly earlier than the talk, Biden began promoting cans of water labeled, “Darkish Brandon’s Secret Sauce,” on his marketing campaign web site, mocking the recommendations from Trump and his advisors within the days main as much as the talk that Biden would seem firey and even perhaps use medication to boost his efficiency.
“The key to a great debate efficiency? Staying hydrated,” Biden’s marketing campaign web site nonetheless learn after the talk.
Harris weighs in on Biden’s efficiency
Vice President Kamala Harris is weighing in on the presidential debate.
“Pay attention, to begin with, what we noticed tonight is the president making a really clear distinction with Donald Trump on all the problems that matter to the American individuals,” she stated.
“Sure there was a gradual begin however it was a powerful end.”
Requested if she’s involved in wake of Biden’s debate efficiency, she repeated: “It was a gradual begin. That’s apparent to everybody.
“I’m not going to debate that time. I’m speaking in regards to the alternative in November. I’m speaking about probably the most vital elections in our collective lifetime.”
Trump’s aides celebrating
Trump’s aides erupted into loud applause and cheers after he stepped off the talk stage, in line with a video shared by an aide.
“President Trump emerges from the stage victorious,” political director James Blair wrote on X, the platform previously referred to as Twitter.
Trump’s aides are extraordinarily blissful in regards to the former president’s efficiency Thursday night time.
Chris LaCivita, Trump’s senior adviser, referred to as it “essentially the most lopsided win in debate historical past” and mocked the Biden marketing campaign for saying the president had a chilly. “I liked it, proper? Basic.”
How will the 2 candidates deal with the excessive value of kid care?
The talk didn’t precisely make clear the vital challenge, although Biden has put his support for child care at the forefront of his campaign.
When Trump was requested how he would decrease the price of little one care, he ignored the query and went again to defending his determination to fireside John Kelly as his chief of workers, who confirmed that Trump had made disparaging remarks about army veterans. He was given one other likelihood to reply the query and as an alternative pivoted to speaking about Biden’s ballot numbers.
Biden, in jumbled remarks, talked about little one care in ways in which had been at instances tough to comply with, even because the White Home tries to make the case that Biden’s document investments in child care brought women back to the workforce.
When he was requested what he needed to say to Black voters who had been “disenchanted he hadn’t made extra progress” on closing racial disparities, he stated, “We acquired to verify we offer for little one care prices … as a result of while you present these little one care protections, you create financial progress as a result of extra individuals might be within the job market.”
Biden stated his opponent has “achieved just about nothing” on little one care. “We should always considerably improve the kid care tax credit score. We should always considerably improve the supply of men and women, er, single mother and father to have the ability to return to work.”
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Biden says: ‘We’re going to beat this man.’
Biden informed supporters in his temporary look after the talk: “Look we’re going to beat this man. We have to beat this man and I want you in an effort to beat him.”
“God love you all,” he stated earlier than stepping off the stage to greet a few of these supporters.
Biden continued to work the gang at his watch celebration in downtown Atlanta for greater than quarter-hour after making a short assertion.
Biden’s surrogates rally behind the president
All of Biden’s high surrogates marched into the spin room en masse, creating an enormous media scrum. One after the other, all of them gave their takes on Biden’s efficiency earlier than entertaining shouted questions from the handfuls of reporters gathered round them.
- California Governor Gavin Newsom informed reporters that he was pleased with Biden. “Tonight I believe Joe Biden not solely asserted himself, he reminded individuals of his accomplishments and his imaginative and prescient for the longer term.”
- Donald Trump’s niece, Mary Trump, informed reporters that her uncle has “one coverage place — to maintain himself out of jail.” She referred to as him a traitor to his nation and famous that “the individuals who know him greatest can’t assist him.”
- Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia of California referred to as the talk “a transparent distinction between a great man that we imagine in that’s going to win reelection and a con man, a prison and a traitor to this nation.”
Biden focuses on Trump’s falsehoods
At his watch celebration, Biden is making an attempt to deal with Trump’s falsehoods.
“I can’t consider one factor he stated that’s true,” the president informed supporters.
In a postdebate assertion, Biden’s marketing campaign chair made no point out of the president’s uneven efficiency
“Tonight, President Biden offered a constructive and profitable imaginative and prescient for the way forward for America,” marketing campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon wrote, including, “On the opposite facet of the stage was Donald Trump, who supplied a darkish and backwards window into what America will seem like if he steps foot again within the White Home.”
Biden on stage with supporters after debate
President Joe Biden addressed a room filled with supporters following the talk on Thursday.
Thanking them for his or her assist, he stated: “Let’s maintain going. See you on the subsequent one.”
Trump adviser Jason Miller stated the previous president delivered on the talk stage
On Biden’s efficiency and any discuss of Democrats turning to a different nominee, Miller stated a transfer can be “structurally not possible.”
“Sorry, Democrats. You could have your nominee,” Miller stated.
‘He’s the nominee of the Democratic Social gathering’
Democrats are panicking and want casting over what may have been following Biden’s uneven debate efficiency. However David Axelrod, the Democratic strategist who helped propel Barack Obama’s meteoric rise, says the one one that may exchange Joe Biden because the celebration’s nominee is Joe Biden himself.
“He’s the nominee of the Democratic Social gathering. This isn’t the ‘60s,” Axelrod stated. “Solely he can resolve.”
“This can be a man with a whole lot of satisfaction who believes in himself” and possibly thinks he had only one dangerous night time,” Axelrod continued. The issue is “it’s one night time that helped affirm peoples’ fears.”
Biden scheduled to handle supporters
Biden has returned to the lodge the place he spent a lot of the day to talk to supporters who’re partying after they watched the published of the talk.
Music is taking part in and individuals are dancing in a convention room embellished with Biden-Harris indicators and pictures of Biden’s trademark aviator sun shades.
Whereas Trump and Biden debated, RFK Jr. stood alone in Los Angeles
Standing alone on a stage in Los Angeles, Kennedy opened his occasion, dubbed The Actual Debate, by accusing CNN, host of the principle contest, of colluding with the Republican and Democratic events to maintain him off.
“That is one thing that’s vital for our democracy as a result of Individuals really feel just like the system is rigged,” Kennedy stated throughout his opening remarks. “That is precisely the sort of merger of state and company energy that I’m operating to oppose.”
Except for the livestreamed response to the debate, Kennedy has nothing on his public schedule for the approaching weeks. Nor does his running mate, philanthropist Nicole Shanahan.
Democrats weighing in
Georgia state Rep. Billy Mitchell, a number one Democrat within the suburban Atlanta Democratic heartland of DeKalb County, stated he thought Biden may overcome the efficiency.
“The bar was set so low by his opponent that he definitely exceeded that,” Mitchell stated stated on the Biden marketing campaign watch celebration in downtown Atlanta. “The truth is we love Joe Biden due to the place his coronary heart is, regardless of if he appeared like he had a chilly right here and there.”
Former Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro stated in a publish on X that, “Biden had a really low bar going into the talk and did not clear even that bar. He appeared unprepared, misplaced, and never robust sufficient to parry successfully with Trump, who lies consistently.”
Trump received’t cease by the spin room
Trump is on his approach again to his personal airplane as his aides and supporters gloat about his efficiency Thursday night time.
He’s not planning to cease by the spin room, leaving that job to surrogates, which embody a number of of his vice presidential short-listers.
As the talk got here to a detailed, Trump supporter retired police officer Nick Glaub, of Ross, Ohio, watched along with his ft kicked up onto a close-by efficiency stage, a can of Corona sitting on the desk.
Glaub was happy with Trump’s debate efficiency and stated he observed the dearth of assault strains from Trump. “I simply assume he held his composure,” he stated.
Chuck Thompson, a Trump supporter from Mason, Ohio, who got here to the watch celebration decked in an American flag button-down shirt, was additionally pleased with Trump’s debate efficiency, noting the distinction in tone from Trump’s final debate in opposition to President Biden in 2020.
“He’s realized how one can management his mood,” he stated.
Trump aide says he received the talk “palms down”
Ramaswamy says Trump “palms down” received the last decade and should have even swayed unbiased voters.
The previous GOP hopeful says Trump confirmed extra vitality than Biden, whom he portrayed as weak and unable probably to complete his time period, not to mention win one other.
Ramaswamy characterised Biden‘s ongoing presidency as a possible risk to nationwide safety for what he argued was displaying weak point.
Fore extra years? Biden and Trump take swings at one another’s golf abilities
Trump and Biden bickered over how far they will hit a golf ball and their stamina on the course, with Trump bragging about trophies he’s received and Biden claiming he’s been a single-digit handicap.
Trump famous he lately received two championships at a golf course he owns. He then bashed Biden, claiming with out proof that the president can’t hit the ball 50 yards. Biden responded that, as vice chairman, he had a fairly aggressive six handicap — and once more challenged Trump to a golf match, however provided that his foe carried his bag of golf equipment himself.
“Suppose you are able to do it?” requested Biden, whose handicap is listed on the US Golf Affiliation’s web site as 6.7, with the final replace in July 2018. Trump’s handicap final up to date in June 2021 is listed as 2.5.
Trump then sought to close down the golf dialogue. “Let’s not act like youngsters,” Trump stated.
“You’re a little one,” Biden retorted.
In golf, a handicap is a measure of a participant’s talent. The decrease the handicap, the higher the participant is.
Contained in the spin room
Fifteen minutes after the talk ended, there have been solely Republicans speaking to the press within the spin room.
There have been a minimum of seven high-profile Republican officers within the room, together with Stefanik, Donalds, Ramaswamy and Whatey.
There have been no Democrats.
After the talk ended
Trump walked straight off the stage alone after the talk.
Biden was joined by his spouse Jill, who watched from a inexperienced room. They hugged and kissed and he or she held his hand and appeared to help him down the steps as they approached Bash and Tapper to greet the moderators earlier than leaving.
Candidates on immigration
President Joe Biden has lastly discovered some traction on a problem that has dogged a lot of his presidency – immigration – however he largely averted it as Trump repeatedly hammered him with unsubstantiated claims that individuals had been coming throughout the border from prisons and psychological well being establishments.
In his closing remarks, Biden mentioned taxes, child-care credit, lead pipes and inflation however nothing about his latest measures on immigration. On Wednesday, Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas stated arrests for unlawful border crossings plunged greater than 40% since asylum processing was halted June 5.
The asylum halt infuriated some in his Democratic base, however Biden thrilled them two weeks later by saying he would ease the trail to authorized standing for an estimated 500,000 spouses of U.S. residents.
Trump, as anticipated, turned to a signature challenge in his closing remarks, blaming Biden for “permitting tens of millions and tens of millions of individuals to pour in.”
Biden has departed the talk corridor.
Biden’s closing assertion
Biden started his closing assertion with a voice that was even scratchier than earlier and was at instances exhausting to grasp. He stated of his administration, “We’ve made vital progress from the debacle that was left by President Trump in his final time period.”
Trump, Putin and Kim Jong Un
Biden stated Trump cuddled as much as North Korean chief Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Trump has a protracted historical past of admiring feedback about Putin, together with calling Putin’s techniques within the 2022 invasion of Ukraine “genius” and “very savvy.”
Trump met with North Korean chief Kim Jong Un 3 times throughout his presidency and had referred to as Kim “a fairly good cookie.” In 2018, throughout a short thaw, Trump stated he and Kim exchanged letters and that “we fell in love.”
“He wrote me stunning letters and they’re nice letters,” Trump stated.
Trump says Kim, Putin and President Xi Jinping of China “don’t respect him” and “don’t worry him.”
Biden gave a nonsensical reply on abortion
Abortion is likely one of the most vital points for Democrats on this 12 months’s election. The president mischaracterized Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Courtroom ruling that legalized abortion.
When requested if he helps some restrictions on abortion Biden stated he, “helps Roe v. Wade, which had three trimesters. The primary time is between a girl and a physician. Second time is between a physician and an excessive state of affairs. A 3rd time is between the physician, I imply, between the ladies and the state.”
He added that he thought docs, not politicians, ought to make choices about “ladies’s well being.”
“We’re residing in hell,” Trump stated in regards to the state of the nation in his closing remarks. “You discuss Charlottesville, that is 100 instances, Charlottesville a thousand instances the entire nation is exploding due to you, as a result of they don’t respect you,” Trump stated to Biden, equating the state of the nation with the neo-Nazi rally and counterprotests that shocked the nation in the beginning of Trump’s time period.
After the talk, Biden was greeted on stage by his spouse, Jill. Trump walked off alone.
Debate ends
That’s a wrap on the primary presidential debate.
