2024-06-28 04:42:21
US President Joe Biden and his Republican rival Donald Trump sparred over a wide range of issues, including abortion, immigration, Washington’s approach to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine, during the first presidential debate ahead of the high-stakes November 5 election.
The debate, hosted by CNN, offered US voters a chance to catch a glimpse of a rare side-by-side look at the two oldest presidential candidates ever to fight for the top office, in what will be a rematch of the 2020 election.
Biden, 81, sounded hoarse and tentative at times, with White House officials saying he was battling a cold, and mumbled on several occasions during the first half-hour of the debate. Trump, 78, on the other hand, was defiant and brushed off attacks and digs one after another and made several claims, including that the “largest number of terrorists” globally “had entered our country” during Biden’s tenure.
Here are the top quotes from the first presidential debate between Biden and Trump:
WHAT BIDEN AND TRUMP SAID DURING THE DEBATE:
-
Trump said, “We’re no longer respected as a country, and they don’t respect our leadership, and we’re like a third-world country.”
-
Trump said, “We have a border that’s the most dangerous place anywhere in the world and he (Biden) opened it up, and these killers are coming into our country, and raping and killing women, and it’s a terrible thing.”
-
Trump said, “We have the largest number of terrorists all over the world coming into our country right now. They come from Middle East and everywhere.”
-
Trump said, “We have the largest number of terrorists all over the world coming into our country right now. They come from the Middle East and everywhere.”
-
Biden said, “The idea that the politicians, the founders, wanted the politicians to be the ones making decisions about a woman’s health is ridiculous.”
-
Biden said, “This guy’s (Trump) three years younger and a lot less competent and he is the worst in all of American history.”
-
Biden said, “The only person on this stage (Trump) who is a convicted felon is the man I’m looking at right now.”
-
Biden said, “We find ourselves in a situation where when he (Trump) was president, he was taking and separating babies from their mothers, putting them in cages, and making sure they’re the families who were separated.”
-
Trump said, “If it’s a fair and legal and good election, absolutely. I would have much rather accepted these, but the fraud and everything else was ridiculous.”
-
Trump said, “That’s a war that should have never started. Russia would have never attacked President Trump and Ukraine is not winning that war.”
Trump-Biden Debate Live updates, US Presidential Debate Live Updates, US Presidential elections, Donald Trump, Joe Biden
Source link
