Heated exchanges ensued between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden during the CNN Presidential Debate on Thursday night, as the two rivals went head-to-head during their second debate since 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Illegal immigration, abortion, and inflation were among the top issues on the debate stage, as well as climate change and the Israel-Hamas and Russia-Ukraine wars.<\/p>\n
The debate comes as Biden and Trump are the frontrunners for the Democratic and Republican parties respectively. This is the first televised debate between the candidates for this election cycle and a second hosted by ABC is scheduled to be held in September.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Trump did not participate in the Republican primary debates, while the Democratic National Convention (DNC) threw its full support behind Biden and did not hold any debates among his challengers.<\/p>\n
Here are the top clashes from Thursday\u2019s debate:<\/p>\n
When CNN moderator Jake Tapper asked President Joe Biden to inform voters why he can curb the record-high numbers of illegal migrants crossing the border during Thursday night\u2019s debate, Biden and Trump sparred over their immigration policies, which ended in Biden calling Trump a \u2018liar\u2019 and Trump appearing to not understand a portion of Biden\u2019s responses.<\/p>\n
After touting Congress\u2019s bipartisan border package that lawmakers bucked earlier this year, Biden said \u2018we find ourselves in a situation where when he was president, he was separating babies from their mothers put them in cages, making sure that the families were separated.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018That\u2019s not the right way to go. What I\u2019ve done since I\u2019ve changed the law, what\u2019s happened? I\u2019ve changed it in a way that now you\u2019re in a situation where there are 40% fewer people coming across the border illegally, that\u2019s better than when he left office. And I\u2019m going to continue to move until we get the total ban on the total initiative relative to what we can do with more Border Patrol and more asylum officers,\u2019 Biden said.<\/p>\n
But Trump, appearing to not understand Biden, responded: \u2018I really don\u2019t know what he said at the end of that sentence, I don\u2019t think he knows what he said either.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018Look, we had the safest border in the history of our country,\u2019 Trump continued. \u2018All he had to do was leave it, all he had to do was to leave it. He decided to open up our border, open up our country, to people that are from prisons, people that are from mental institutions, insane asylum, terrorists \u2013 we have the largest number of terrorists coming into our country right now.\u2019<\/p>\n
Biden accused former President Trump of \u2018having sex with a porn star\u2019 and said he has \u2018the morals of an alley cat,\u2019 but the presumptive Republican nominee maintained that he did not, and accused Biden of being behind his legal cases because \u2018he can\u2019t win fair and square.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018How many billions of dollars do you owe civil penalties for molesting a woman in public? For doing a whole range of things\u2014having sex with a porn star\u2026while your wife was pregnant?\u2019 Biden said. \u2018You have the morals of an alley cat during the night, sir.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
Trump fired back denying the allegations.<\/p>\n
\u2018I didn\u2019t have sex with a porn star, number one,\u2019 he said. \u2018Number two, that was a case that was started, and they moved a high-ranking official\u2014DOJ\u2014into the Manhattan DA\u2019s office to start the case.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
Trump was referring to Matthew Colangelo, who served as a senior DOJ official in the Biden administration, and left to join Bragg\u2019s prosecution team.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Trump threw several jabs at Biden for giving billions of dollars to Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy to continue its defense against the Russian invasion that began in February 2022 and said if elected, he\u2019d have the war \u2018settled\u2019 before taking office.<\/p>\n
\u2018He\u2019s given $200 billion, that\u2019s a lot of money,\u2019 Trump said. \u2018I don\u2019t think there\u2019s ever been anything like it. Every time that Zelenskyy comes to this country. He walks away with $60 billion. He\u2019s the greatest salesman ever.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018The money that we\u2019re spending on this war, we shouldn\u2019t be spending. It should have never happened. I will have that war settled between Putin and Zelenskyy as President-Elect before I take office on January 20. I\u2019ll have that war settled. People being killed so needlessly, so stupidly and I will get it settled, and I\u2019ll get it settle fast before I take office.\u2019<\/p>\n
In response, the current president said, \u2018The fact is that Putin is a war criminal.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018He\u2019s killed thousands and thousands of people and he has made one thing clear, he wants to reestablish what was part of the Soviet empire, not just a piece, he wants all of Ukraine,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
\u2018By the way, all that money we give Ukraine from weapons we make here in the United States, give them the weapons, not the money at this point, and I made our NATO allies produce as much funding for Ukraine as we have \u2013 that\u2019s why it\u2019s that\u2019s why we\u2019re strong,\u2019 he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
During the CNN Presidential Debate, CNN moderator Dana Bash presented the age Biden and Trump would be at the end of a potential second term.<\/p>\n
Biden would be 86. Trump would be 82.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Biden defended his age, saying he \u2018spent half my career being criticized about being the youngest person in politics. I was the second-youngest person ever elected to the United States Senate, and now I\u2019m the oldest. This guy is three years younger and a lot less competent.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
But Trump reminded that he has taken two cognitive tests.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018I aced both of them, as you know, we made it public. He took none. I\u2019d like to see him take one. Just want a real easy one,\u2019 Trump said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Trump, an avid golfer, said Thursday night that he recently \u2018won two club championships\u2014not even senior\u2014two regular club championships.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018To do that, you have to be quite smart and you have to be able to hit the ball a long way and I do it,\u2019 Trump said. \u2018He doesn\u2019t do it. He can\u2019t hit a ball 50 yards. He challenged me to a golf match\u2014he can\u2019t hit a ball 50 yards.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018I\u2019ve seen you swing. I know your swing,\u2019 Trump fired back. \u2018Let\u2019s not act like children.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
But Biden replied: \u2018You are a child.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
While Biden reminded Trump that the \u2018only person\u2019 that has a felony record on the debate stage is Trump, the former president said \u2018when he talks about a convicted felon, his son is a convicted felon.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018At a very high level, his son is convicted,\u2019 Trump said, adding that he\u2019d seek \u2018retribution,\u2019 referring to a potential November election victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018As soon as he gets out of office, Joe could be a convicted felon with all of the things that he\u2019s done,\u2019 he continued. \u2018He\u2019s done horrible things, all of the death caused at the border, telling the Ukrainian people that we\u2019re gonna want a billion dollars if you change the prosecutor, otherwise, you\u2019re not getting a billion dollars. If i ever said that, that\u2019s quid pro quo.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018This man is a criminal. This man, you\u2019re lucky, you\u2019re lucky. I did nothing wrong. We have a system that was rigged and disgusting,\u2019 Trump said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Biden pushed back at the idea that he has done any wrongdoing \u2018is outrageous.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018It\u2019s simply a lie,\u2019 Biden responded. \u2018Number two, the idea that you have a right to seek retribution against any American just because you\u2019re president is wrong. No president has ever spoken like that before. No president in our history has spoken like that before.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fox News Digital\u2019s Brooke Singman contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n
Heated exchanges ensued between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden during the CNN Presidential Debate on Thursday night, as the two rivals went head-to-head during their second debate since 2020.\u00a0 Illegal immigration, abortion, and inflation were among the top issues on the debate stage, as well as climate change and the Israel-Hamas and <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}