Top Moments and Takeaways from the 2024 Trump-Biden Debate
President Joe Biden and the Republican nominee Donald Trump faced off Thursday night in the first Trump-Biden debate of the 2024 general election. This debate gave both candidates a chance to set the political tone and win over undecided voters. It’s been four years since their last debate, and a lot has changed since then.
Trump Relentlessly Criticized Biden Over Border Crisis
During the CNN Presidential Debate Simulcast Thursday night, former President Trump repeatedly criticized President Biden over the ongoing crisis at the southern border. Trump accused Biden of turning a once secure border into a “rats nest.”
“He’s the one that caused deaths with the bad border, including hundreds of thousands of people dying, and also endangering our citizens when they come in. Right now, we’re living in a rats’ nest,” Trump said.
According to Fox News, even though the numbers have dropped significantly from a record high in December, the crisis is still overwhelming communities across the U.S. Recently, there have been several high-profile crimes committed by illegal immigrants.
Biden Kept Saying Trump Called Neo-Nazis ‘Very Fine People,’ Even Though Fact-Checkers Debunked It
During the CNN debate, Biden insisted that Trump had claimed there were “good people on both sides” during the deadly Charlottesville rally in 2017, despite recent fact-checks from Snopes showing this claim to be false.
“I said I wasn’t going to run again until I saw it happen in Charlottesville, Virginia,” Biden recounted. “People were coming out of the woods, carrying swastikas on torches and singing the same anti-Semitic bile they sang back in Germany.”
Trump Went After Biden on Drugs and Illegal Immigrants Crossing the Border
During Thursday’s debate, Trump criticized President Biden for the surge in drugs like fentanyl and migrants crossing the southern border. Trump insisted that under his administration, the numbers went down.
“Then he came along. The numbers, have you seen the numbers? Now it’s not only the 18 million people that I believe is even low because the gotaways, they don’t even talk about gotaways. But the numbers of the amount of drugs and human trafficking in women coming across our border, the worst thing I’ve ever seen — at numbers that nobody’s ever seen, under him, because the border is so bad,” Trump argued.
Biden Called Trump a ‘Whiner’ for Not Accepting His Loss in the 2020 Election
During the debate, Biden portrayed Trump as someone who couldn’t accept defeat in the 2020 election. They exchanged words on whether they would accept the results of November’s election.
“Absolutely. There’s nothing I’d rather do,” Trump responded. “It would be much easier for me than running again. I wasn’t planning to run until I saw the terrible job he did. He’s destroying our country. I would be very happy to be somewhere else in a nice location.”
Biden responded by calling Trump a “whiner.”
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