Former U.S. President Donald Trump and current U.S. President Joe Biden took the stage for a highly anticipated presidential debate on Thursday (June 27), Reuters reports.
The debate, hosted by CNN, provided the first opportunity for voters to evaluate the two candidates side-by-side this election year.
Democratic President Joe Biden and his Republican rival Donald Trump traded attacks on their handling of the economy in the opening minutes of their debate on Thursday night, giving voters a rare side-by-side look at the two oldest candidates ever to seek the U.S. presidency.
Democratic President Joe Biden delivered a shaky performance at Thursday's (27 June) debate while his Republican rival Donald Trump battered him with a series of often false attacks, as the two oldest presidential candidates ever exchanged deeply personal insults ahead of November's U.S. election.
Biden and Trump, 78, were both under pressure to display their fitness for office. Biden has been dogged by questions about his age and sharpness, while Trump's incendiary rhetoric and sprawling legal woes remain a vulnerability.
Trump claimed under his presidency the economy was good and "everything was "rocking" and said he would end the war in Ukraine before he took office.
Biden criticised Trump over sexual abuse claims with Stormy Daniels saying he was the "morals of an alley cat."
US President Joe Biden and his Republican rival Donald Trump traded barbs on their golf games and cognitive tests on Thursday's (27 June) presidential debate as they each sought to put to rest concerns over their health and age.
At one point, the rivals bickered over their golf games, with Trump bragging about hitting the ball farther than Biden and Biden retorting that Trump would struggle to carry his own bag.
Biden, 81, and former president Trump, 78, are the oldest candidates ever to seek the presidency and viewers are sure to question their cognitive abilities and emotional steadiness.
""Well, I took two tests, cognitive tests. I aced them, both of them, "said Trump.
