Former TVA anchor Pierre Bruneau expects a “very lively debate” between Joe Biden and Donald Trump on Thursday night. According to him, the former president will certainly be unpredictable.
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While on QUB Radio, Mr. Bruneau opened up about his experience as a political debate host. With many election nights under his belt, he explains that Biden and Trump should rely on doubt to win points with viewers.
“Creating doubts about immigration, state security, age […]on abortion… it is a subject which will be debated very fiercely during this first debate,” he mentioned.
Their ages will also be a source of criticism from the two participants, who are 78 and 81 years old respectively. “They showed weaknesses on a few occasions,” he added. According to him, it is a question of “who will be the least lost in his words.”
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“It’s a bit like an F1 race, we start and you want to keep pole position, you never want the other to overtake you, neither by their arguments nor by their objections,” he illustrated .
“When you’re the incumbent prime minister, you have a head start, but you have to defend a mandate. In the case of Biden and […] of Trump, both have already had a mandate. Both will therefore want to prove that the mandate that [chacun] “The lead is better than the other one,” he stressed.
Even though the questions are already prepared by the moderators and the team behind the organization of the debate, Mr. Bruneau is convinced that with “Donald Trump, you never know what to expect.”
The last debate that the man had moderated was that of the provincial elections in 2022. It had been a “cacophony”, according to him, but he affirms that the team anticipated it.
“We can expect it to be a very lively debate this evening,” he said.
Watch the full interview in the video above.
