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1st Presidential Debate Set for September 29

Steve Redisch

   WASHINGTON - Now that the U.S. presidential nominating conventions have
   ended, the next key date on the campaign calendar is Tuesday, September
   29-- the race's first presidential debate.

   Republican President Donald Trump and his Democratic Party rival,
   former vice president Joe Biden, spent the week after the conventions
   making their opening arguments in some of the U.S. States critical to
   winning the election, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina.

   "I think that we can expect to see a rowdy debate between the two
   presidential candidates," said Jennifer Mercieca, assistant professor
   of Communications at Texas A&M University. "Both of these candidates
   are fighters."

   Mercieca says indications of Trump's debating style can be found in how
   he described his 2016 campaign as a "counterpunch."

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