The start of the biggest debate was initiated tonight. The polls are close and the stakes are high in this upcoming election. Trump, though considered a womanizer and a bully, is loved for being real and out spoken. Hillary has a very fluid campaign but struggles to relate to everyday people. In the debate they discussed achieving prosperity, mainly about jobs. Hillary immediately tried to relate to people by bringing up her grandchild and how she wants her to grow up in a prosperous future. She says we need to invest in us, the people. Invest in innovation and in small businesses. She wants to raise minimum wage and equal pay for work. Start profit sharing and start supporting struggling families. The question turns to Trump and he immediately starts blaming the immigrants, like anyone would expect anything else. He brings the attention to the fact that our money is losing its value and that our country has become the "piggy bank" to the rest of the world. He supposedly has a plan saying he will cut taxes from 35% to 15%, though it is reported this plan will only hurt, not help. Hillary, in response, calls his plan the "Trumped-up, Trickled-down". Her aim is to mostly help the middle class, where as Trumps stance more helps the wealthy. Trump was posed with the question, "how are you going to bring back the industries that have left?" Trump, though seemed to argue forever, never got around to answering the question fully. His main point was on taxes that other countries have when we sell into their country. His main point is we don't have a tax that is similar for other countries and how we should implicate one. I see where it may be an in-convince for businesses to leave the country with the tax, but I doubt this one action will cease industries leaving America. At this point in the debate the argument began to shift from the question being asked to arguments about each other. Hillary brings up the fact that Trump was rooting for the housing crisis, despite the fact that 9 million jobs were lost and 5 million homes lost, because it would profit him. His comment, "that's just business". Donald replied to these statements with a seemingly endless rant without any conclusion. Their biggest opposing view on the job debate is taxes. Again, Hillary wants to help middle class by increasing taxes on wealthy, while Trump wants to lower taxes on wealthy.
Trump brings up ISIS and mocks Hillary for trying to have a plan to fight them, saying generals would be offended, yet Trump has openly said he knows more about ISIS than the American generals. Trump, at this point in the debate, has said the same thing in a thousand different ways, somehow without making any profound statement. The debate turned to a more sensitive subject bringing up racial issues. Hillary starts off by saying race determines too much. She says we must restore trust between the communities and the police. She wants a reform, wants to give police the best training and get guns out of the wrong hands. Trumps biggest wish is to restore law and order, to stop violence. He continues to say "law in order" as if that would be a sufficient enough answer. He brings up the 'stop and frisk' epidemic and spins it in a good light. He defends it even though it was deemed unconstitutional. The only agreed upon view points were better relationships and anyone on watch list and or no fly list should not be permitted to have a gun. On the issue about securing America the main point made, that stood out to me at least, was about Trump. Hillary brought up a time when Trump become hostile about a tweet. Hillary said, " a man who can be provoked by a tweet should not have his fingers near the nuclear codes". Trump gets angry saying that he hasn't talked rude of Hillary, implying he was the bigger man, though most of his campaign strategy seems to be putting others below him. They ended the 'discussion' with a question about the people, if the candidates would support the peoples choice even if it wasn't in their favor. Hillary said she proudly supports democracy and that is really up to the people. Trump, of course, ends his speech with a dig at his opponent saying he doesn't think Hillary would do a sufficient job as a president, though he would support it. Throughout the debate Hillary was noticeably more organized and prepared while Trump might have started out organized but soon fell into his pattern of interrupting and unnecessary digs towards opponents. Overall Hillary started to connect with the people and remained calm and prepared. Trump, though loved for his rants and for being "real", doubly brought any new voters to his side with his vulgar charm. Although not all the points were raised yet,tonight was the ground work of the final leg of this intense race.
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