The first national debate for presidency was very interesting. To be one of many, it had quite a competitive start. In my opinion, Hillary Clinton made more effective arguments.
           Throughout the entire debate, Donald Trump served to be the person all anti-Trump people expressed that he is. He was very rude as he kept interrupting Secretary Clinton and the moderator, Lester Holt. He was also offensive. The most interesting part of Trump’s argument was the simple fact that there was no argument. He talked around every question he was asked, and if he did give any implication of an answer, he made sure that it was vague. He failed to properly address what he would do to reform America. The only ideas present in the debate from Trump’s position, was that he did not want taxes to increase and he wanted to protect jobs being “stolen” from people that are not native born Americans. As far as the segment on race relations, he expressed that he wanted to establish “law and order.” Secretary Clinton addressed a few issues and stated that Trump had no plan and that he would in fact state that everything he supports could be looked up. Showing a sort of get-around-it way of addressing what Clinton mentioned. To put it simply, Donald Trump was all talk and had no implications of actually taking actions to “make America great again.”
           Hillary did an outstanding job of not being disrespectful and making a joke of the presidential election. In the segment about achieving prosperity, she expressed her interest in creating new jobs in infrastructure and manufacturing, increasing taxes for the middle class, raising minimum wage, creating equal wages for men and women, and rewinding the policies that have seemed to fail in the past and trying to correct what went wrong. She also stated how the trickle-down theory, which Trump supports, did not and will not work. One particular idea that I favored was her idea for debt free college in order to create an opportunity for people to get educated and have equal opportunities of gaining wealth and ending poverty. During the segment concerning race relations, Hillary stood a very strong position to restore trust relations between the police and communities, having an efficient work force and developing a new sense of respect in America. She also had an argument to tackle gun violence. Also at one point she stated that there were private prisons out there that basically promote prison profits. This was interesting because it helped explain why so many innocent people end up convicted. The last segment was about securing American international relations and Hillary really wanted to focus on becoming closer to our foreign allies versus Trump, who was keen on American independence.
           This first debate was nothing like I actually expected. It proved to be more interesting than I expected due to the lack of a good argument. I actually was willing to go either way, but now I can proudly say I am pro-Clinton only for the sake of being anti-Trump. Why would anyone elect a man who can’t even express himself?
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