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\u201cBlack Vote, Black Power,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0a collaboration between Keith Boykin and Word In Black,\u00a0<\/em>
examines the issues, the candidates, and what\u2019s at stake for Black America in the 2024 presidential election.<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, that was awkward.<\/p>\n

The first presidential debate of the 2024 campaign has just ended in Atlanta, and it felt like a disservice to the public. Donald Trump lied and rambled nonstop without correction. And President Joe Biden was simply not able to keep up with Trump\u2019s torrent of falsehoods.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was the first time in history a convicted criminal took part in a presidential debate, but it was 40 minutes into the discussion before the subject came up. It was as if it were completely normal for a twice-impeached, quadruple-indicted, convicted felon awaiting sentencing, who also incited a deadly insurrection, to be considered a serious candidate for the most powerful job in the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But the spectacle likely did nothing to move the needle: Biden\u2019s shaky performance did not allay concerns about his age, and Trump\u2019s nonsensical tirades did not allay concerns about his mental or moral fitness to hold office.<\/p>\n

After the first half hour, Biden finally had a few good moments, attacking Trump as a criminal<\/a>, condemning him for \u201chaving sex with a porn star while your wife was pregnant<\/a>,\u201d and accusing him of having \u201cthe morals of an alley cat<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Trump is a master at denying the truth, dodging questions, inflating his own record, and lying about other people as he pivoted to his favorite talking points.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Asked about Black voters, Trump blamed immigrants for taking what he called \u201cBlack jobs<\/a>.\u201d First of all, that\u2019s not true<\/a>, but second: what, exactly, are Black jobs?<\/p>\n

In the same round, Biden missed a golden opportunity to sell his own record on Black issues: lower Black unemployment<\/a>, lower Black poverty<\/a>, more Black businesses<\/a>, more HBCU funding<\/a>, more Black judges<\/a>, less student loan debt<\/a>, and historic appointments<\/a> to his cabinet.<\/p>\n

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ATLANTA, GEORGIA \u2013 JUNE 27: U.S. President Joe Biden and Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump participate in the CNN Presidential Debate at the CNN Studios on June 27, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. The debate is the first of two scheduled between the two candidates before the November election. (Photo by Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Trump blithely walked past his own history of housing discrimination in the 1970s, the lynch mob he led against the now-exonerated \u201cCentral Park Five\u201d in the 1980s, and the birtherism lie he peddled about President Barack Obama for nearly six years. Biden did cite a few examples of what he\u2019s done for Black voters, but he let Trump put him on the defensive on an issue where Trump\u2019s own record is abysmal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is especially true in Atlanta, the predominantly-Black city that Donald Trump attacked<\/a> before<\/a> and after<\/a> he lost the 2020 election, and tried to invalidate the votes of Black residents. Trump even targeted Fulton County election workers Ruby Freeman<\/a> and Shaye Moss<\/a>, both Black women.<\/p>\n

But there was no mention of that in the debate \u2014 in Atlanta. Trump was not forced to answer for his bigoted attacks on the late Rep. John Lewis \u2014 a civil rights icon \u2014 and current Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t stop there.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Asked about childcare<\/a>, Trump avoided the question, rambled off into immigration lies, and spoke about how he fires people. Not one word about child care. And no one held him accountable.<\/p>\n

Asked about the opioid crisis<\/a>, Trump went on and on about irrelevant issues and again failed to provide a single substantive idea, much less give a coherent answer. Asked a second time about the opioid crisis, Trump brought up Vladimir Putin releasing hostages.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Asked about a Palestinian state<\/a>, Trump did not even pretend to answer the question. He just launched into a rant about NATO.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

And after all that, Trump still refused to say he would accept the election results<\/a> this November.\u00a0<\/p>\n

President Biden should have mopped the floor with Trump tonight, but he did not. Then, after the debate, Biden showed up at a rally and looked like a different person<\/a> \u2014 refreshed and energized in a way that he was not during the debate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what just happened, but it\u2019s going to be a long four months, and an even longer four years if things keep going in this direction.<\/p>\n

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\nKeith Boykin\u00a0is a\u00a0New York Times\u2013bestselling author, TV and film producer, and former CNN political commentator. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School, Keith served in the White House, cofounded the National Black Justice Coalition, cohosted the BET talk show\u00a0My Two Cents, and at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York. He\u2019s a Lambda Literary Award-winning author and editor of seven books. He lives in Los Angeles.<\/em>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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