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Eccentric billionaire "stole" the debate
On August 6, the American conservative television channel Fox News held the first debates of ten main candidates of the US president from the Republican Party. The main star of the debate, as expected, was billionaire Donald Trump, who is fighting with political correctness, migrants, American leadership and even his own party. At first, no one took Trump seriously: usually such candidates use the elections only to achieve their own goals, create a lot of noise, and then shoot the candidacy after the fall of the interest of voters. However, the eccentric tycoon has been in the first week in polls among the Republicans, with a tangible margin, overtaking Jeba Bush, who seemed to be a potential leader of the primaries. "Medusa" tells what the first debate with Trump's participation was remembered.
Despite the fact that before the election of the US President, more than a year remained, it was preliminary debates to the primaries that are crucial for voters. Когда два кандидата от демократов и республиканцев уже определены, американцы смотрят на их дискуссию как на игру любимой команды, то есть болеют за «своих»; On the eve of the primaries, preferences have not yet been completely formed.
The first part of this multi -part series on FOX was attended by all the main contenders for the presidency from the Republicans, including obvious favorite Jeb Bush (former governor of Florida) and Scott Walker (Governor of Wisconsin). But practically nothing could be found out about their speech, political program and pre -election promises: for example, the Politico publication notes that they did not show themselves on the debate and acted quite pale. But Trump spoke brightly, in fact, stole the evening at the party colleagues.
Donald Trump is well known as a person who is not shy in expressions (just read excerpts from his eloquent twitter), holds well in front of the camera and can attract attention. During the debate, he did not talk about his political program practically nothing. Instead, first of all, Trump went through women and political correctness. To the question of the leading Magin Kelly about the appropriateness of gross words towards women (“You call women that you do not like,“ thick pigs ”,“ dogs ”,“ dumbass ”and“ dirty animals ””), which he more than once allowed, the businessman said: “I think, political correctness is a big problem of our country. So many people attack me, and I do not have time for all this political correctness. Honestly, our country also. ” The audience met him with applause.
Another branded line of Trump, which he demonstrated on the debate, is a free handling of facts. At some point, the billionaire said that at one time he gave most of his opponents a “bunch of money”. The Washington Post tested this statement and found out that Trump really donated money to presidential candidates - but only two, Jeb Bush and Scott Waker. Moreover, if the waker got a relatively large, but still insignificant amount of the policy of 10 thousand dollars by the standards of politics, then he transferred Bush to Bush’s headquarters even $ 500. Another candidate from the Republicans Randu Polmp Trump never sacrificed anything at all, judging by the newspaper, although the billionaire directly declared the opposite in the debate.
Trump angered the Republican Party at the very beginning of the debate. When the presenters asked which of the candidates is ready to go against the party and nominate as an independent candidate, if he does not win primaries, only Trump raised his hand. He has repeatedly changed political views and parties (Trump was a member of the democratic, republican and reformist parties), Trump does not cost anything to break with the one -party members and go an independent candidate. Trump perfectly understands (and confirmed this on the debate) that his independent nomination will essentially mean the defeat of the Republicans in the elections: their voices will go to two, and not one candidate, and the chances of winning Hillary Clinton will not remain. And he obviously does not worry about this at all.
With his nomination, Donald Trump turned into a nightmare for the Republican Party. He is the first promising candidate for a long time, who shares the values of the ultra -conservative movement “tea drinking” , looks like an ideal choice for supporters of protest voting and refuses to play the rules in charge long before him. At the same time, he is not afraid to make mistakes or say things for which another politician would eat alive: Trump has been building an image of a person who says only what he thinks and appears before people as he is, with all the shortcomings and advantages.
According to the editor -in -chief of VOX Ezra Klein, Trump cannot be shamed, because he has no sense of shame, he never retreats and does not apologize - and people like it. Trump's sharply growing rating - according to Real Clear Politics, it is 24.3 against 12.5% of Bush - a good confirmation that such a strategy is extremely effective right now.
Pavel Borisov
Riga