President Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden’s dueling town halls on Thursday night offered each of the candidates a chance to showcase their strengths and sway undecided voters.
But despite airing at the same time slot, the competing events weren’t evenly matched.
The Post’s panel of election experts — two for each town hall — generally found that the questions posed to Trump were tougher, with NBC host Savannah Guthrie acting as an adversary and fact-checker to the president.
https://nypost.com/2020/10/15/dueling-town-halls-experts-grade-president-trump-and-joe-biden/
Biden, meanwhile, was mostly lobbed softballsas ABC host George Stephanopoulos stayed largely hands-off.
“The questions were softball. I think Biden lost votes with his answers on why black voters should vote for him, transgender rights and fracking,” said longtime Staten Island Republican political strategist Leticia Remauro.
“Of those who presented as undecided in the audience, it was a strong performance. The president interacted well with questioners and seemed much more contained than in his debate with Biden,” said David Birdsell, dean of Baruch College’s Marxe School of Public and International Affairs.
Matt Mackowiak, a longtime Republican strategist, thought that Trump being himself all the way also may have gained him an upper hand.
“Trump gave his standard responses on these subjects. It was interesting to see him post-COVID recovery. I think he may have helped himself marginally tonight,” said Mackowiak, a podcast host and chairman of the local Republican Party in Austin, Texas.
Meanwhile, Biden was calm and collected, which Eric Soufer, who worked on the Democratic presidential campaigns of John Edwards and Barack Obama, argued may be enough to change the minds of some ballot-casters.
“I think Biden’s decency, calm and thoughtfulness — especially when compared on a split screen to Trump — will have a lasting impact on the remaining undecided voters,” said Soufer.
Countered Remauro, “Don’t think that’s enough to get him elected president.”
Credit: NY Post
Trump Wins…end of story.
Who “won” may be based on your politcial slant, but the biggest LOSERS were the blatantly biased and manipulative host networks.
Biden gets treated one step short of being blown with ZERO questions about his and his sons naked corruption, and ZERO pushback on his now flip flopped stances on just about every issue, from the Disney pedophile network.
Meanwhile, Trump is forced to yet again answer the same old questions he has repeatedly answered over and over yet idiots refuse to accept the answers to. NBC’s joke of a “moderator” was so bad that even MSNBC and Rachel Maddow distanced themselves from it.
Paul Zuzzio exactly
It was like Biden was being interviewed by his best friend and Trump was being interrogated for murder.
I guess every liberal who gets the chance is going to ask Trump if he denounces white supremacy, must be fashionable.
yup!
TRUMP
By far Biden
Glenn Ehrhardt are you for real.
Mike Riccardelli LIAR DON has zero credibility ZERO
Donna Risner and Joe does!?!?!????????????? Nice ass kissing job between him and biased George!
Glenn Ehrhardt ???????? NOPE
Donna Risner 00000 = a true ZERO ???????? Bye -Bye Biden ???????? TRUMP 2020 ????????
Jackie Keller Wurdemann you can fact check what he said and the fact check Don Con. Let me know who cares bettet
Donna Risner like how fact check showed how gropin Joe LIED to the people of PA when he said the railroad company might be closing and people would lose their jobs trying to make it look like jobs being lost under Trumps watch. The railroad company jumped on that one!!! Like Biden is such an”stand up” guy!!!????????????????????
Donna Risner i guess you miss ISIS,kneeling at China’s feet,giving hundreds of billions to the terrorists in Iran? Oh how bout the 2 wars that wound down? Oh and what about mideast peace?yea,i guess your right!!!!!
Donna Risner that must be why he had thousands of more viewers lol. Get ready for a red wave.
Tony Graham Obama did all the ground work. Who are you kidding.
It’s easy to win when softballs are pitched to you
Donna Risner Ground work? Check your timetable,oh and i guess you miss the beheadings,car bombings all the stuff that our last president TOLERATED!
They do not do facts.
China joe and his vermin said let ’em in when Don said keep em out. Just say no to china’s other virus -joe biden.
They lie constantly. from obozo the corrupt clown along with the rats clinton and biden PAYING for a false report on Russian collusion. When one has their head in the commie news nutworks poo pile they see and hear nothing.
Not 1 hunter corruption question to china joe. What a joke.
BTW the FEDS have crooked hunters hard drive.
Julie Gurney my source says ratings/viewers not out yet. I would love to share your info. Please provide link
Tony Graham oh I forgot. That’s all Obama’s fault. But 218,000 dead
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10218712130339159&id=1376071116
Tony Graham y’all are s joke. Really.
https://apnews.com/article/peace-process-israel-iran-united-arab-emirates-jerusalem-c87ca011c2cd4321d587e9684dfb84e1
Fake numbers Donna nobody has died of anything except covid since the wuhan china Joe virus started.
Donna Risner The joke is the news you are not getting. You are not an idiot.Look at other sources.GOD bless ya.
Julie Gurney FYI Julie Nielsen Ratings in. Guess what ? Look it up.
Donna Risner and that’s from a VIRUS!!!!
Donna Risner when you nothing else go to your stupid memes!!????????????????
Donna Risner and Trump supporters like myself watched Biden to see if he had any tough questions…..fail
Question for Trump-Why did you kill 200,000 people with covid
BIDEN Question-Do you think kids should trick or treat this Halloween
Rich Carroll you’re not lying lol
Rich Carroll
You are spot on!
Trump 2020
What about the tough questions for old guy Joe.
Trump 2020
Annette Crawford Hall questions like is polident better? Do you take ginkoa biloba for your memory?Are you happy with your hair transplants?
Trump
Trump without question. I am Richard Carroll and i approve this message
Mr. Trump, why are you an evil murderer?
Mr. Biden, are you comfortable in that chair?
Of course on this page the majority would say Trump won. Biden and Trump could literally have a race around a track and Trump could fall in shit in his first two steps and Biden could finish and the ppl of ocean county would still say trump won . That’s how blind they are
Terrence Anderson sad but true
Terrence Anderson what has Biden done in his 47 years in office that makes you say yeah he is the best choice?
T.j. Polhemus and now there are crickets, they are good at bashing our President but no answer to your question
Cindy Doty Heiart 47 years is a long time. I’ll give him a hint. It has a zero in the answer. Maybe that will help.
He passed the ACA, he saved Detroit and our car industry and brought us out of a recession…. ps just cuz your stocks are doing well doesn’t mean the economy is. Oh and he dealt with a far deadly virus in ebola and they stopped it.
No crickets over here champ
Tell me what Trump has done not what he says he’s doing or doing… what is he doing. What’s his goal for the next 4 years? Repeal and replace? Lie. The wall? Lie? Like really guys and don’t say ideas say what he’s has done lol
I have personally watched trump say something crazy on tv and the next day say he didn’t, but we watched you! The whole world watched you and that’s why they laugh at this guy! ????he’s a clown
Terrence Anderson
Terrence Anderson yep. Great ACA …my working kids are paying sky-high rates for their Obama Care with 5k deductibles and limited choice in providers. Great plan..
Trump dead Add all the hard answers and Ridicule By that womanJob items questions were given to him and the answers will give in to him he clearly can’t feint on his own he doesn’t even know what state hes in half of the time trump pence 2020
Now try again in English……
Joseph Clappsy Sr. Did you fucking get drunk ???? before you commented? Dude get your shit together
Trump won…. He was impressive
TRUMP!
Biden no doubt ! He answered all questions. Never ever got defensive and on top of it stayed after it was over and spoke to folks one on one . He also showed a clear and decisive plan on Covid19, economy, healthcare and Taxes !
Manuela Zing His covid plan is exactly what Trump administration is doing now. The questions he answered were pathetically softball.
Barbara Baker-Orsini watch Fox News much lmao ????! Trump has done absolutely nothing !
Manuela Zing crazy times we are living in now! Hope all sides will come together as Americans when this is over. Take care!
Barbara Baker-Orsini so do I . The late responds and the denial is the reason we are in this horrible situation
The Nielsen ratings said Biden won by about 3 million more viewers.
Biden wins hands down
All i can say is Omg!!
Trump
Trump 2020 ????????❤????????❤
If you ask Trump he did
Trump2020
TRUMP 2020 red down the line
Can’t stand this despicable president… A president should be worthy of dating your child.
Kathleen Brown so you would let a creepy old piece of shit who has been seen on live TV touching little children unappropriately you got a child in your profile picture you need help if that’s the route you’re going just saying.
Anthony Lamberti first… it’s “inappropriately” not un… and secondly… go fuck yourself.
Relax Karen the single mother Biden train in coming hopefully in 2024. Your triggered I love it typical to expect from the Democrat side.
Kathleen Brown I’m with you. He’s a moron
Kathleen Brown like, perhaps, Bill Clinton? And Joe Biden would be more attracted to your second grade daughter…
Once again Trump proved to be his own worst enemy. By setting up the dueling town halls, he sparked interest in voters who weren’t planning on tuning in to Biden’s solo speech. He pushed more people to watch him due to the hype. Drawing eyes to Biden’s sales pitch for a calmer, thoughtful, & empathetic Presidency which sounds pretty appealing compared to Trump’s bombastic “All about me” style.
Paul King he did get out the New York Post scoop to millions of people the main stream media is totally blocking.
I’d say that’s a win.
You mean the story about how Hunter Biden, who lives in Los Angeles, decides to fly 3000 miles across country, to drop off 3 MacBook Pros at a repair shop run by a blind guy (because there aren’t repair shops in LA). He drops them off, signs a contract for repair and then disappears. The repair shop owner recovers and reads Hunter’s *private* emails, (which is illegal by the way) a few of which mention a possible meeting with his dad and is so alarmed, he contacts the FBI.
The FBI arranges to pick up the hard drives, but the computer repair shop owner takes a totally normal step of copying them. Then he calls up the ex-Mayor who just happens to be in bed with Russian Oligarch Firtach and hands them the illegally obtained content of these drives.
That totally credible ex-Mayor then sits on them for months, only to release them 3 weeks before the election. The mainstream media asks to independently verify their validity but said ex-Mayor does what all people trying to prove facts do and ignores these requests.
Yeah I don’t have a lot of confidence in that story and neither should anyone else.
Everything is setup one sided Trump will win we see right through Democrats games
Lol
Biden was great. Smashed Trump in ratings too!
Gabe Casales sure he did.
Gabe Casales my Trump friends all watched Biden. Waiting for him to answer tough questions
Does joe even know where he’s at
Trump! He had to fight for his win while Biden went to kindergarten!
President did a great job during this fake town hall smear show by NBC. I would have smacked that chick into next week.
BIDEN hands down! He was truthful. Fact check it for yourself!
dang you guys just like baiting everyone into fighting and name calling on your posts now…i came on this site years ago to see what happens around the town, this political stuff has people so nasty on here now…sad
Well Biden was spoon fed softball questions and he still didn’t answer and trump was hit with the gotcha type questions and he answered all of them And now Biden’s family gets caught taken bribes from Ukraine and China and Russia so looks like Biden’s a crook just like Hillary but people are blind and stupid and will be led like lemmings of a cliff while hunter and Joey live like kings on our sweat and sometimes blood corruption kills empires