All the below tweets (@NPR, @politico, @Slate, @NewYorker, @TheAtlantic) are in English.
Analysis: More than 200,000 Americans are dead from the coronavirus pandemic.
And instead of a serious presidential debate about the direction of the country, President Trump sent it off the rails.https://t.co/rMoSAJOEZb
— NPR (@NPR) September 30, 2020
Less than a day after telling the white supremacist group to "stand back and stand by" when asked if he'd condemn white supremacists, President Trump now says he doesn't "know who the Proud Boys are." https://t.co/BFBoCgPDZa
— NPR (@NPR) September 30, 2020
Undecided voters are usually the target of presidential debates — but it's unclear that Tuesday night's debacle helped distill anything for them.https://t.co/RNy3aOyVGq
— NPR (@NPR) September 30, 2020
After the first presidential debate was plagued by interruptions and crosstalk — mostly from President Trump — debate organizers now say they'll make changes to the format before the next matchup.https://t.co/lmgQGtSw47
— NPR (@NPR) September 30, 2020
In the first presidential debate, President Trump continually interrupted both Joe Biden and moderator Chris Wallace — crossing many lines in the process.
When asked to denounce white supremacy, Trump declined. pic.twitter.com/92RW3SQ6yg
— NPR (@NPR) September 30, 2020
Analysis: This was maybe the worst presidential debate in American history.https://t.co/JICXSohwaZ
— NPR (@NPR) September 30, 2020
When asked to denounce white supremacy during Tuesday's debate, President Trump declined.
He instead addressed a white supremacist group directly, telling them to "stand back and stand by."https://t.co/OD9MmfQOU8
— NPR (@NPR) September 30, 2020
President Trump baselessly claimed that he has the support of the “Portland sheriff."
In fact, the sheriff of the county where Portland, Ore., is located said in a tweet tonight that he would never support Trump. #Debates2020https://t.co/sGlEtTE3PD
— NPR (@NPR) September 30, 2020
A #Debates2020 fact check: Trump's comments tonight about “solicited” vs. “unsolicited” ballots were misleading, says reporter @ZachMontellaro
Key moments: https://t.co/aYLRVMftZX pic.twitter.com/ifLGLjP25c
— POLITICO (@politico) September 30, 2020
The first presidential debate of 2020 was a flurry of falsehoods, with Trump offering a number of evidence-free claims to defend his tenure in office while criticizing Biden's political and personal background https://t.co/IKasV1K2CV
— POLITICO (@politico) September 30, 2020
Analysis: Consistency wasn’t the point. Pulling Biden, Wallace, the sponsoring Commission on Presidential Debates and everyone watching to the level of chaos where Trump has thrived in the past likely was the point https://t.co/lGyriqVXHp
— POLITICO (@politico) September 30, 2020
Here's just one example of the chaotic crosstalk during tonight's debate.
Moderator Chris Wallace: “No – No, I, I – No, the answer to the question is no – No, I, sir? Sir? You know what, wait – Stop. You're going to have – Gentlemen!” https://t.co/YZOFdWMziZ pic.twitter.com/eWvTthkAGx
— POLITICO (@politico) September 30, 2020
Biden was criticizing Trump for reports about the president’s having called members of the military who were killed in action “losers.”
“Are you talking about Hunter?” Trump interjected https://t.co/HA3NMVmQF0
— POLITICO (@politico) September 30, 2020
A day after Trump’s campaign flexed its digital muscle with a seven-figure ad-buy, Biden’s campaign was responding in kind with a post-debate digital advertising onslaught beginning at midnight to help win the online narrative surrounding the debate https://t.co/uZbuLm9eYg
— POLITICO (@politico) September 30, 2020
“The most undignified, unpresidential presidential debate in the history of the country.”
“Trump made substantive discussion… all but impossible.”
“It’s going to be an ugly sprint to Election Day.”
Political experts weigh in on Tuesday's debate: https://t.co/M0gdslUdmA
— POLITICO (@politico) September 30, 2020
America just learned what a pandemic-forced conversation between Donald Trump and Joe Biden sounds like.
Here's how a nearly empty room led to debate chaos: https://t.co/5IeqOYNtcJ
— POLITICO (@politico) September 30, 2020
The moment Joe Biden’s first debate against Donald Trump ended, his campaign was already confronted with questions about whether it should be his last. https://t.co/ThrnbFIl2D
— POLITICO (@politico) September 30, 2020
In a night marked by constant interruptions and blatant fact-fudging, it was a moment that sparked a separate online melee https://t.co/T4zquSghVT
— POLITICO (@politico) September 30, 2020
This number dwarfed the 51 times Trump interrupted Hillary Clinton during the first presidential debate in 2016. https://t.co/nlDU35Jpmh
— Slate (@Slate) September 30, 2020
Former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker knows what it’s like to get his mic cut during a debate. It could happen to Trump. https://t.co/r9ZVpJdlnE
— Slate (@Slate) September 30, 2020
A roundup of a few more things that would have been shocking if a halfway normal president had said them. https://t.co/8p19lvwg08
— Slate (@Slate) October 1, 2020
Slate’s Political Gabfest on the most shocking moments of Tuesday’s horrid debate. https://t.co/KsW7cprcUg
— Slate (@Slate) September 30, 2020
“He will not be able to stop you from determining the outcome of this election,” Biden said. https://t.co/P3Icz2gVbT
— Slate (@Slate) September 30, 2020
In normal times, debate moderators should stay out of the way and be almost indivisible. These aren’t normal times. https://t.co/ZCGLlCFu9q
— Slate (@Slate) September 30, 2020
What will Trump do to distract from the bad reviews? https://t.co/KKXfTqAOqN
— Slate (@Slate) September 30, 2020
Slap it on a bumper sticker and let’s get voting! https://t.co/qL2rLZeO7B
— Slate (@Slate) September 30, 2020
There’s a five-alarm fire burning through our election system right now. https://t.co/nnjrsb9PBy
— Slate (@Slate) September 30, 2020
Many critical issues need to be addressed tonight in Cleveland. But one key problem hangs over all of them. https://t.co/2dOl9cPoRJ
— Slate (@Slate) September 30, 2020
Trump’s tax returns reveal the financial stakes of this election. https://t.co/stTaR7W1Ez
— Slate (@Slate) September 30, 2020
Sitting indoors for an extended period of time without a mask happens to be a great way to spread the virus. https://t.co/9yyb3pTMNl
— Slate (@Slate) September 30, 2020
The “expectations game” turns into a sewer-diving exhibition. https://t.co/FPxG95t5ri
— Slate (@Slate) September 30, 2020
Did Joe Biden say it or not? https://t.co/U5L7SiqBll
— Slate (@Slate) September 30, 2020
It might have been a “sh*tshow,” but it really, truly—seriously!—was an effective debate. https://t.co/boU1P0K8AM
— Slate (@Slate) September 30, 2020
We didn’t learn anything new, which is probably good for Biden. https://t.co/RQqsvXfF1l
— Slate (@Slate) September 30, 2020
How many people wish they, too, could tell Trump to “just shut up, man”? https://t.co/Q0Z7fRFyUX
— Slate (@Slate) September 30, 2020
A substantive debate with Donald Trump just isn’t possible. https://t.co/dH8CGtkRdy
— Slate (@Slate) September 30, 2020
“I would say almost everything I see is from the left wing, not from the right wing.” https://t.co/8lS0Ud2dth
— Slate (@Slate) September 30, 2020
Trump could get away with paying almost nothing in income taxes on more than $2 billion of income. https://t.co/i2m8ZWhTmb
— Slate (@Slate) September 30, 2020
Will Trump make any sense? Will Biden get peevish? We’ll learn soon enough! https://t.co/ZUluB4cePg
— Slate (@Slate) September 30, 2020
When a bully yells, you must yell back. But the overall effect was horrific. https://t.co/S1j81I7EfO
— Slate (@Slate) October 1, 2020
He can’t stop making enemies and alienating voters. https://t.co/vUkxT2fC66
— Slate (@Slate) September 30, 2020
“Ultimately, Mr. Trump has been more successful playing a business mogul than being one in real life.” https://t.co/9hF30tUS1q
— Slate (@Slate) September 30, 2020
It’s always been known that Trump doesn’t actually care about the little guy. His tax returns just put it in bold. https://t.co/Q3dRYLhA1n
— Slate (@Slate) September 30, 2020
When you’re picking someone to entrench minority rule—yeah, you stay mum about that part. https://t.co/Hcxl8dWEoV
— Slate (@Slate) September 30, 2020
If Trump is reelected, get ready for a new nuclear arms buildup starting in February. https://t.co/rtWGadQzEH
— Slate (@Slate) September 30, 2020
"Proud Boys, stand back and stand by. But I’ll tell you what, I’ll tell you what. Somebody’s got to do something about antifa and the left. Because this is not a right-wing problem. This is a left-wing problem"https://t.co/RtVWrDtH0L
— Katie Rayford (@katie_rayford) September 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/rickhasen/status/1311133882104688641
President Trump has consistently demonstrated hostility toward America’s friends and admiration for its authoritarian adversaries. We need an Administration that would restore U.S. foreign-policy leadership. https://t.co/unTpYCDpzu
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) September 30, 2020
President Trump is asking his fans to risk their health to make his campaign look better. And yet, if he wins another surprise victory in November, it won’t likely be because of his rallies, @ericlach writes. https://t.co/jFRqK4ESir
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) October 1, 2020
The Borowitz Report: “The moderator can read my answers aloud and then Trump can howl like a damn hyena, for all I care,” Joe Biden said.https://t.co/BQpjekDbc1
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) September 30, 2020
Faced with the prospect of losing power, the President has gone beyond mere scaremongering and resorted to fomenting unrest from the White House. https://t.co/FfvCdih7Yo
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) September 30, 2020
In 1876, Republican electors in three states certified that Rutherford B. Hayes won the election, while Democratic electors in those states certified that Samuel Tilden had. The ensuing crisis pushed America’s constitutional order to its breaking point. https://t.co/tu3X3jwL49
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) September 30, 2020
Even for Donald Trump, "there was something particularly over the top about his debate performance on Tuesday night," @sbg1 writes. "It was more of a primal scream than a political appearance."https://t.co/UXIBQ8f5qR
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) September 30, 2020
.@BenWallaceWells recaps a chaotic Presidential debate, in which the texture was “overlapping non-responsiveness, visible even in those few moments when the candidates arrived at a clear point of contrast.” https://t.co/szywkQoCBa
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) September 30, 2020
With increased mail-in voting, a phenomenon called the “blue shift”—votes that are counted later tend to favor Democrats—is likely to take place in many states. Experts fear that Trump will claim this as evidence of foul play. https://t.co/mOdWKzAzMg
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) September 30, 2020
The changes necessary to achieve the restoration of the rule of law in America must begin with the foundational right in a democracy, @JeffreyToobin writes: the right to vote. https://t.co/MoOjlZZtKk
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) September 30, 2020
So much has gone wrong since the Democrats lost control of the House in 2010 that it’s easy to imagine climate change again being relegated to the to-do list, @ElizKolbert writes—but there isn’t time for that. https://t.co/47BMUy8slT
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) September 30, 2020
“I think we now have a President with some of the same ideals,” a member of the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan said, in 2016. https://t.co/Scieg2pn5e
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) September 30, 2020
"This was a disgusting moment for democracy. Donald Trump made it so, and Chris Wallace let him," writes @JamesFallows: https://t.co/vEmuDLNts6
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) September 30, 2020
"Tuesday was the first presidential debate of the 2020 election, and if there is any sense or mercy left in this nation, it will be the last, too," writes @GrahamDavidA: https://t.co/MqXlLubWIc
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) September 30, 2020
"The shape of the 2020 race suggests that 2016 might have been less a realignment than an anomaly," writes @GrahamDavidA: https://t.co/cCIx2OCwHn
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) September 30, 2020
Did that debate feel like a toxic, drawn-out family dispute? It felt like that to family therapists too, @jpinsk reports: https://t.co/zcb9ZQNUue
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) September 30, 2020
"If he is still president on January 21, Trump will feel utterly vindicated by a second unlikely victory—thinking that only he is truly in touch with the American people," @thomaswright08 writes: https://t.co/U5cB1JxgJj
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) September 30, 2020
Interruption is such a familiar form of disrespect, @megangarber writes. During the presidential debate, viewers watched its dynamics in real time: https://t.co/hOBHozJ9BV
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) September 30, 2020
President Donald Trump refused to clearly condemn white supremacy at last night’s debate. This was no accident, @emmaogreen writes: https://t.co/SeCRUkWVQi
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) September 30, 2020
"Biden may be faded from what he was: perhaps less crisp, less sharp, less fast. But when Biden spoke, he spoke to and about America. Trump only spoke about his wounded ego," argues @davidfrum: https://t.co/UZtZTS7XqS
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) September 30, 2020
President Trump launched his comeback bid with a simple, familiar strategy: bulldoze over everyone, @russellberman writes: https://t.co/47Sa9MT5ke
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) September 30, 2020
"Usually debates don’t really 'matter.' Tonight’s encounter is a moment of high drama." Our staff writer @JamesFallows shares his moment-by-moment analysis of the first presidential debate. https://t.co/HCOCuGbXr6
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) September 30, 2020
"To reduce the moderator’s job to real-time fact-checking is to fundamentally misunderstand what debates are for," @jdickerson writes: https://t.co/joERNQzf5z
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) September 29, 2020
"We have to believe that power still lies in the people, or else we’ve already surrendered it," George Packer writes: https://t.co/eFFEaD3Pi6
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) September 29, 2020
The president’s tax returns undermine his image as a successful businessman. Then: A single dad asks for advice in our latest “Dear Therapist” column. The latest Atlantic Daily, by @mimbsy: https://t.co/iTkMmZ8h6X
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) September 29, 2020
In a bizarre move, Trump defended one of his worst climate rollbacks last night by using arguments that his own administration has discredited, @yayitsrob writes. https://t.co/Yo3ziQG18j
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) September 30, 2020
I wrote about America's growing vote-by-mail controversies:
– What's the truth behind Trump's claims of mass fraud?
– Why have so many mail ballots been rejected in 2020?
– Is voting in person safer than we thought?
– How should I vote?https://t.co/qmSJxnOjrO— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) September 30, 2020
This is a good story to read right now: https://t.co/4CtvdDVRoW
— Jeffrey Goldberg (@JeffreyGoldberg) September 30, 2020
Trump says he has fixed “the broken military you gave me.” For more on what the president thinks about this country’s service members, read this: https://t.co/caEiIjrFYN
— Marina Koren (@marinakoren) September 30, 2020
