The second Presidential debate followed a turbulent first debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. The American people were robbed of sufficient political information and answers in the first debate, but the second debate proved to be much more successful with the absence of the chaotic manner that plagued thefirst debate. 

COVID-19 seemed to take center stage in the second debate as it is the topic that most Americans care about the most. Donald Trump started with his promise of a vaccine that would be ready within weeks. In response to this, Biden pointed out the numerous empty promises of Trump and made sure to highlight the 220,000 Americans that have died under his presidency. There was quite a back and forth between Biden and Trump. Trump continued to focus on the economic side of COVID-19 with his failed attempt to instill hope that things are getting better as he speaks and that businesses and schools will be reopening soon. Biden of course shot back with the mentioning of the almost quarter-million deaths and predicted 200,000 additional deaths by December. 

After an economic quarrel, Joe Biden’s son Hunter became a topic of conversation as Trump alleged that Joe profited from Hunter’s business dealings in China and Ukraine as he mentioned the recent news stories pertaining to the findings on Hunter Biden’s laptop. Biden denied this appalling claim and began to talk about Trump’s taxes and his dealing in China. The mentioning of Trump’s taxes prompted the President to mention how he supposedly pre-aid millions of dollars in taxes, all of which has not been confirmed. 

Immigration was another hot topic of the night. Trump is notorious for his strong stance on immigration, but in the second debate, Trump seemed to downplay some of the extreme plans that he had made over the previous years. Trump was asked about the separation of children from their parents at the border and Trump managed to find a way to blame his action on the Obama administration. Biden mentioned that the children that the Trump administration was keeping in these cages came to the United States with their parents which was followed by a response from Trump who claimed that these children were well-taken care of despite the conflicting information the American public has heard and seen regarding the issue.

The last important takeaway from the second debate was criminal justice. In the first debate, Trump tended to dance around the issue of racism in the United States as he refused to condemn white supremacy. Despite his inability to denounce white supremacist groups, Trump talked about his criminal justice reform and the funding that he was providing to historically black colleges. He then went on to attack Biden for his sponsorship of a bill that drastically increased the number of black Americans who were in prison. Biden then fired back as he questioned what Donald Trump has done for the black community throughout his presidency. 

While the first debate left the American people angry and confused, the second debate hopefully gave the people more insight into the policies and political agendas of both presidential candidates.