{"id":16488,"date":"2020-10-27T19:03:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T03:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=16488"},"modified":"2020-12-03T21:26:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T05:26:35","slug":"turning-point-usa-hosts-viewing-party-for-final-presidential-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/turning-point-usa-hosts-viewing-party-for-final-presidential-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning Point USA hosts viewing party for final presidential debate"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Western students attend virtual viewing party of the final presidential debate<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

Sydney Carpenter<\/strong> | News Editor<\/span><\/p>\r\n

On Oct. 22, 63 million Americans tuned in to the final presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, according to nielsen.com.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Western students interested in watching the debate were invited to a viewing party hosted on Discord by Turning Point USA\u00a0 \u2014 a bipartisan political club on campus. During the viewing party students could comment on how each political candidate addressed moderator\u00a0 Kristen Welker\u2019s questions about Fighting COVID-19, American Families, Race in America, Climate Change, National Security and Leadership.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cThe candidates were much more civil this time with a lot less interrupting,\u201d said junior business major and Event Coordinator of Turning Point USA Joe White, \u201cat least in the first half anyway. It did seem to kinda fall apart towards the end.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For the first presidential debate, the Commission of presidential debates received a lot of criticism from the American people regarding the lack of control the first moderator, Chris Wallace, had over the candidates remaining within their two-minute speaking time and their lack of civility towards one another. In White\u2019s personal opinion \u2014 which he explains is not reflective of the club or the members associated with it \u2014 he felt the moderator in the final debate did a great job delegating each candidate\u2019s talking time.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cThere wasn\u2019t a whole lot of interrupting from what I saw and it didn\u2019t feel like two little kids fighting and having a teacher come break it up,\u201d said White. \u201cThis time around, I felt the moderator was sweet, and she also had a spine; she wasn\u2019t getting pushed around. It felt like she knew what she was doing but she also knew when to reclaim her time in a way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Although candidates were socially distanced and audience members were required to wear masks, in contrast to the vice presidential debate that utilized a plexiglass covering to protect candidates Senator Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence, plexiglass coverings were not used in the final presidential debate despite Trump testing positive for COVID weeks prior.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0\u201cYou would think the more important a person is, the more you\u2019re going to want to protect them,\u201d said White. \u201cI was surprised to not see plexiglass between them. I guess I didn\u2019t really see a point unless they are facing each other. If they\u2019re facing each other, I would understand it being there, but if they\u2019re not then I would understand it not being there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Oregon, it\u2019s estimated by AP Election Research and Quality Control that the percentage of votes cast in advance compared to the General Election in 2018 is up 47.8%. It\u2019s been estimated by Michael McDonald of the University of Florida\u2019s Elections Project that around 52 million Americans have voted early as of\u00a0 Oct. 27.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

White hopes that after the election people respect who is voted in as president and respect the outcome of the election, whether it\u2019s President Trump or former Vice President Biden.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Contact the author at howlnews@mail.wou.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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