Washington: Thursdays debate will be the first of the 2024 US presidential race and the third time when Donald Trump and Joe Biden will be head to head as presidential hopefuls for republicans and democrats respectively. They faced each other previously in the 2020 elections.
The CNN Presidential Debate on “Jesse Watters Primetime” carries high risks for either, Aaron Kall, the director of the debate programme at the University of Michigan, was quoted as saying to the US media.
“Neither have debated (since their last face-off), which is kind of unique,” Kall was quoted as saying. He also noted that Trump skipped the Republican Party debates in the lead-up to the primaries this year.
“So both of them will kind of be out of practice, not having debated since the fall of 2020, and it may take a little time to kind of get back into their regular debating styles,” he added.
Issues of the immigration, economy, and inflation are expected to take centre stage, besides foreign policy — questions about Russia Ukraine war and Israel’s war in Gaza also China.
