{"id":53683,"date":"2024-06-24T23:38:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T13:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=53683"},"modified":"2024-06-24T23:38:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T13:38:44","slug":"trump-and-biden-do-battle-in-first-us-presidential-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=53683","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Biden do battle in first US presidential debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Joe Biden and Donald Trump square off for a historic US presidential debate this week, with the stage set for what could be a pivotal moment in the 2024 race as millions of potential voters tune in.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The showdown fires the starting gun on what promises to be a bruising summer on the campaign trail, in a deeply polarized and tense United States still convulsed over the chaos and violence that accompanied the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>With only two debates this cycle, Thursday&#8217;s high-stakes clash takes on heightened significance, and both candidates have stepped up their personal attacks, with national polls showing the pair neck and neck.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The debate is important because it&#8217;s an opportunity for two well-known candidates to &#8216;reintroduce&#8217; themselves to a public that knows them well but hasn&#8217;t been paying attention,&#8221; said Donald Nieman, a political analyst and history professor at Binghamton University in New York state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The big question is how much of the public &#8212; beyond political aficionados &#8212; will pay attention to such an early debate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For Trump, the 90-minute clash is a chance to drive home worries about 81-year-old Biden&#8217;s mental alertness &#8212; although the Republican, 78, has faced age concerns of his own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden and Donald Trump square off for a historic US presidential debate this week, with the stage set for what could be a pivotal moment in the 2024 race as millions of potential voters tune in. The showdown fires the starting gun on what promises to be a bruising summer on the campaign trail, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1813],"class_list":["post-53683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-trump-and-biden-do-battle-in-first-us-presidential-debate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}