CNN Town Hall with Joe Biden on right now....

[ProudMNDemocrat]

So far so good. The first 3 questions have been on COVID. Joe is hitting every point. He is hitting hard on Trump.

Joe is talking to people, not over them.

[DonaldsRump]

1. Good heavens, how desperately do we need Joe!

[Johnny2X2X]

2. He's very passionate tonight.

He’s doing very well. Going a little off script right now though.

[Tribetime]

3. My God Im watching a great President in action

[OrlandoDem2]

4. We need Joe! He's doing great. I'd like to see him speak more slowly. Take your time, Joe!

He wants to say so much he gets tongue tied.

[onetexan]

40. Biden's tremendously articulately and knowledgeable, alot easier to listen to than the Con

I tuned in late but so far he's doing quite well. I like the format.

[msongs]

5. cnn has some sort of graphic plastered over the screen. wonder if it will stop playing soon nt

[msongs]

7. sign in required to watch the whole thing nt

[Mossfern]

6. He catches himself rambling and apologizing for it

I don't know how that plays.

[Johnny2X2X]

8. He needs to tone it down

He’s doing good, but he’s too intense and that has caused him to ramble a couple times. He has all the answers, just needs to slow down.

[crickets]

19. He's calmed down some since the break.

He's dropped his voice a bit and slowed down. He sounds good, hitting all the elements in his answers and taking his time so he doesn't stumble. I don't think the initial high spirits really hurt him, though - the crowd was impressed enough to applaud early on.

eta - and they applauded again when he got annoyed about being pointed out as the first president who would be elected without an Ivy League degree.

[onetexan]

43. whoa they actually asked him that? Damn fool in the WH bought his uPenn degree & is dumb as a rock

[crickets]

54. Anderson Cooper said that it had been mentioned in the news recently.

Joe got a little hot about that, though good naturedly so. The crowd agreed and applauded. It actually ended up being kinda cute.

[SKKY]

35. As someone who stuttered badly as an adolescent, I know exactly...

...what he's feeling right now. But, he's doing fine. I'll take his stammers over Trumps lies every day of the week, and twice on Sundays.

[onetexan]

67. you know, i never noticed Joe's stuttering until it was pointed out the last couple years. He's

learned how to control pretty well to me. He articulates well, is highly intelligent, highly experienced and a principled man with great integrity - qualities we so desperately need right now.

I recall when i was young i was told by one of my highschool teachers that my mind was racing so fast my mouth couldn't keep up with it & some things came out funny LOL. I still encounter this once in a while.

[Demsrule86]

74. I think he is great.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

9. It shows Joe's HUMANITY.

Trump lacks humanity.

[Mossfern]

11. Yes, we know that

Joe just said that during the debate he's looking to be concise.
That's good.

[Xolodno]

22. As opposed to Trumps....

....rambling tirades?

[ballabosh]

10. What I noticed right away

Joe is standing the entire time. Not sitting on his toilet like Trump did through his townhall.

[Johnny2X2X]

12. That is very on purpose.

Joe is full of energy tonight. I actually think he should sit down for a bit to relax a little.

[ballabosh]

13. Agreed, but one disconcerting thing

is that everyone questioner seems to be a Democrat, whereas all the one's at Trump's were supposedly undecided. So that's how they are gonna play it: Biden got softball questions.

[JI7]

15. different networks

[Iliyah]

24. And how do you know that ..

[ballabosh]

36. Because everyone is introduced as a Democrat

Obviously, I don't know if they are or are not. But the Republicans are gonna key on that.

[onetexan]

45. past several questions there have been Republicans who voted for the Con though

[ballabosh]

50. I noticed

And he handled their questions very well, IMO.

[Sogo]

14. I hate that I can't watch it!

Don't have a TV provider....

[avebury]

16. Go to

www.watchnewslivetv.com and select CNN

[Sogo]

26. Thanks.

That link didn't work for me, but I found another that does.

[Johnny2X2X]

17. Ivy League!

That bit was a homer run! Joe would be the first non Ivy League President. Is that even true? Regardless it was a great line.

[Blue_true]

30. It is true. He graduated from Syracuse University and got his law degree

from a non-Ivy League school.

In a way, I am somewhat disappointed that he played that up, we have enough anti-intellectual behavior in this country now, Ivy Leaguers are viewed as the pinnacle of intellectualism.

[onetexan]

48. i believe Syracuse is now considered Ivy League. I feel Biden's combo of both U of Delaware &

Syracuse is an excellent combo of good education. Not sure what you're disappointed about?

[regnaD kciN]

56. No, it isn't...

The “Ivy League” isn’t an intellectual concept, it’s an athletic conference. It has eight specific members:

Brown
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Harvard
Penn
Princeton
Yale

Just being a recognized, top-shelf university isn’t enough. Otherwise, Stanford and many other universities would be part of it.

[onetexan]

64. i'm aware ivy league athletic conference classification, but that's all the more reason that the IL

label isn't terribly important. There are people who get diplomas from those institutions and have no sense whatsoever (ala the Con who bought his degree).

[Blue_true]

68. Good point, Stanford and Duke are pretty high brow institutions that are

academically on the same level with schools like Harvard. MIT and Cal Tech are superior to Harvard, Yale and other Ivy’s in technical disciplines.

[onetexan]

82. Yes, i've read in recent years there's been all sorts of ivies - west coast ivies, southern ivies,

elite ivies, "hidden" ivies, tech ivies, public ivies, etc. When my last kid was considering colleges my goal for her was just to be happy at a good school where she'll get an excellent education. My very liberal kiddo had many offers including ivies and snotty, expensive conservative schools but chose to attend UT Austin. IMO it's the best among southern schools for the value, ROI and name recognition. Well she saved us a bundle and we're Longhorn fans so was all good.

[Blue_true]

85. UT is a very good public U academically. nt

[Blue_true]

65. I am disappointed in the anti-intellectual aspect of having to point out

that one is not Ivy League. That seems to be playing somewhat to the dumb downed voter that views and Ivy League education as a problem. When I was in Engineering school, the main textbook that I used was written by by a Cal Tech Professor and a Carnegie-Mellon Professor, I can promise you that MIT Engineering majors in my field were using the same textbook, because the two Professors were legends in that field of Engineering. My own Engineering Professors were either from Cal Tech or Yale/Princeton, only a handful weren’t. So, I get a little defensive when a politician works to portray as the everyday common man (though I believe that Joe is the real true deal in that regard), all of us that have college degrees have linages to Ivy League schools or high powered schools like Cal Tech through our instructors.

[JI7]

70. My low opinion of those schools have to do with them letting in people like W Bush, Kushner

and others becsuse of money or name. Im more impressed by someone like Bill Clinton going there becsuse I know it was earned.

[greenjar_01]

81. LOL

No.

[nolabear]

18. Joe pays attention to each individual so well.

I lol at him giving Anderson hell for the media saying he’d be the first president without an Ivy League degree. I did wish he’d acknowledged his white privilege a bit but I think he recognizes it overall.

[vercetti2021]

20. Joe is gonna wipe the floor with Trump

Joe has the energy and the words. Trump will be so drugged up and be waddling around like a coked up oompa loompa.

[nolabear]

23. Spanky has better hang onto that podium for dear life.

The absolute mean fed up fantasizer in me would love to see him advance on Joe and get told “One more step and I’m going full Scranton on your ass.”

[vercetti2021]

39. Throw down!

Na I can see Trump walking off like a baby

[samnsara]

21. ive teared up several times already....

[regnaD kciN]

25. Unfortunately, I don't think he handled the last two questions well...

...the one about respect for police and military, and about the rising murder rate in certain cities. In a sense, they were both “trap” questions, but it was pretty obvious he ducked them and changed the subject both times.

[Drunken Irishman]

31. Disagree. Felt those were his strongest answers of the night.

Unless you were expecting him to say ACAB...

[BannonsLiver]

32. He answered both well.

[Drunken Irishman]

33. Agreed and the way he pivoted into bringing up Trump's gassing protesters was great.

[MustLoveBeagles]

27. I came in at 7:30 cst

He's doing great.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

28. Joe speaks in complete sentences.

He focuses his attention towards the people asking the questions. He is also talking to the Nation if they are watching.

[bdamomma]

29. tuning in now

when did this start?

having his town hall outside.........smart.

not like tRump covid death cult rallies.

[IcyPeas]

34. Fact check from Daniel dale, CNN...

Biden is wrong that Trump held the Bible upside down at St. John's church. (This has become a weirdly widespread belief, but it's incorrect.) And Trump didn't go to the church and then to the White House bunker, as Biden suggested; he went to the bunker three days prior.

Link to tweet

?s=19

[regnaD kciN]

63. One thing that's going to rankle a few people...

...is his referring to St. John’s as “a Protestant church.” Lots of Episcopalians, probably a majority, consider their denomination to be “reformed Catholic,” deeply dislike being lumped in as “Protestant” (which they connect to right-wing evangelicals), and get really annoyed when Roman Catholics dismiss the Episcopal Church, as has been done repeatedly over the ages, in a derogatory way as “just another group of Protestant schismatics and heretics.” It won’t sit well with some Episcopalians to see a Roman Catholic candidate go out of his way to describe their parish as “a Protestant church” – why not just “a church?”

[Demsrule86]

77. I am Episcopalian and that is not true. We do not consider ourselves reformed Catholics.

In fact, we were the first protestant chuch. Your seem negative to me about Joe in more than one post. I like Joe and he did great.

[onetexan]

86. was gonna say. I've never heard of the "reformed Catholic" thing. Catholics refer to any other

Christian denomination as "protestant".

[Native]

78. I was baptized Catholic, but I'm now an Episcopalian.

I've never been a fan of the reformed Catholic characterization, but I do like being considered a renegade Catholic. That said, Joe can refer to me as a heathen, and I'll still vote for him.

[groundloop]

75. It's damned sad fact-checking Joe on this little shit, compared to the whoppers told by tRump

Bible held upside down, right side up, what's it really matter. The fact is that tRump used the church and bible as nothing but a photo-op and had peaceful protesters tear gassed in order to do it.

It's like Hillary's fucking emails all over again, when the media should have been looking at tRumps crimes.

[USALiberal]

79. So CNN should not fact check both sides? Nt

[IcyPeas]

84. Look, there's just no equivalence......

Look, there's just no equivalence.

Biden makes some false and misleading claims. It's important to note them. We will. But his assertions of fact have been largely factual.

Trump, as we saw at the town hall and see again tonight, has been incessantly and egregiously dishonest.

Link to tweet

?s=19

[groundloop]

76. It's damned sad fact-checking Joe on this little shit, compared to the whoppers told by tRump

Bible held upside down, right side up, what's it really matter. The fact is that tRump used the church and bible as nothing but a photo-op and had peaceful protesters tear gassed in order to do it.

It's like Hillary's fucking emails all over again, when the media should have been looking at tRumps crimes.

[USALiberal]

80. You posted this twice. Nt

[unitedwethrive]

83. But that's okay because it needed to be said twice!

Save the fact checking for things that really matter, otherwise it will just be more noise.

[Mossfern]

37. Republican question

on China trade policy.

[Mossfern]

38. Another Trump Republican

Regulations on farms and businesses.

I think his answer was good.

[nolabear]

42. She was really determined to hate him. He gave such a good reply.

I’m not sure she wanted a reply; she wanted to be insulting and insulted. Hard to argue with an offer to help.

[Drunken Irishman]

71. She probably bought into the idea he's a bumbling fool and couldn't answer the question...

...because they're told over and over again that Biden is basically barely above a vegetable in terms of mental function. I'm sure she didn't expect him to answer in the detail he did.

[regnaD kciN]

44. Good answer, but his interrupting her before she was finished...

...is going to be the big takeaway from that exchange, and will neutralize Trump having done the same thing at his town hall.

[vercetti2021]

47. Except he apologized

Trump didn't

[Lucinda]

41. ❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

[vercetti2021]

46. That woman irritated me

[SunSeeker]

55. You mean the idiot whining about environmental regulations? nt

[vercetti2021]

57. Yes

Ugh

[SunSeeker]

59. I guess she finds clean air and water a pain in the ass.

But Joe was super patient with her (showing he intends to be president of ALL Americans) and actually answered her "quesion"/whine.

[nolabear]

49. YES. He wants to be America's President. As it should be!

I know some people don’t like that but I do. We have to find a way to become sane.

[SunSeeker]

51. Joe looked great. OMG, like a tall cool drink of water on a scorching day.

He answered instead of avoided questions. He showed humanity. He showed passion. Love him!!

[rockfordfile]

52. He was good

[SlogginThroughIt]

53. I loved him but he failed on the racial inequality question

He turned it into a "guys like me" issue. That was cringeworthy.

Otherwise I loved the rest of it.

[BlueIdaho]

58. Did he fail worse than Trump?

[SlogginThroughIt]

61. I mean how could he?

I just didn't like the answer at all.

It wasn't about him or guys like him. To clarify the question was about white privilege and he talked about people looking down their nose at guys like him from scranton. It just didn't sit right with me.

[BlueIdaho]

89. That's fair enough... nt.

[George II]

60. "Joe is talking to people, not over them"...or around them. A few hiccups here and there but....

....a great job overall tonight.

As I've seen on Twitter already, how can any sensible person consider voting for trump when the other candidate is Biden?

I've been a "fan" (bad word) of him since 1988 - can't wait to see him taking the oath of office.

[DemUnleashed]

62. Stammering

If any RW media tries to make fun of Joe's stammering, he needs to say, "Yes, I have a speech impediment....I am a stutterer and you mocking me about that says more about you than it does about me!"

I remember when Sarah Sanders mocked Joe's ability to speak. She later apologized that she didn't know he was a stutterer (I don't believe her....I'm sure she knew)!

[GoCubsGo]

66. He did it all standing up, too.

Unlike that syphilitic, orange drug addict. He didn't even need to prop himself up with a podium, like Fat Bastard does.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

69. Nor did Joe Denegrate anyone...

I think the Republican questioners noticed that. He smiled, listened to their question. I hope they saw in Joe that he appreciated them coming and left respected all the same.

[nolabear]

72. I loved the retired police chief. "Don't I know you?"

It’s hard to hate somebody who remembers having met you long before. Now it’s possible he was told he’d met the guy; I don’t know. But the smile was real, and the respect was genuine.

[BlueWavePsych]

73. Go Joe!!!!!!!!

[Talitha]

87. I loved the confident smile on his face when he said he was looking forward to the debates.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

88. Trump will go in over confident and coked up...

While Joe will be Joe and smile that SEG of his and call him...."Donald" to get under his skin as Mary Trump suggests he do.