Presidential Debate Blog Post

Nardos Yosef

English 1102

Anlicker

31 October 2016

For this blog post, I chose to write about the third and final presidential debate between the Republican nominee Donald Trump and the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. This debate took place November 8, 2016 at the University of Nevada.

One topic of discussion that was highly discussed during the presidential election was the topic of National Security. It has been widely controversial that Donald Trump has a relationship with the Soviet Union dictator Vladimir Putin and that he cannot be trusted with the nuclear codes for the United States. Another topic that was discussed was taxes-Clinton believes her plan will create opportunities for jobs and growth but Trump says that it will only increase national debt with a massive tax increase. Trump also believes our allies are not a reason for America’s success but Clinton believes allies are necessary for America to succeed. Something I believe should have been discussed more is race relations in the United States and possibly police brutality, and how they will fix the issues in our local police stations and security. Social rights are a major deal breaker for me in particular, so I believe our future president should see people as equal.

The fact that America has a massive debt is an issue that obviously needs to be addressed. This was an issue that Obama had from the Bush terms, where George W. Bush increased our debt by 1.55 trillion dollars. This is something that Obama could not completely cure in his two terms, so whoever the next president is, they must be willing to make some changes in the spending department of the government. The seriousness of the issue is the fact that it will push America’s success down the drain.