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After 84 million people watched the presidential debate on September 26, it was speculated that the debate would change poll numbers drastically. However, they have remained surprisingly stagnant, democrats and republicans standing their ground. Though numbers vary from source to source, both candidates hover around the 50% of votes mark. Which begs the question - why? Why has half of America been sucked to the notion that Donald Trump is the right choice to run a country, when it seems he has difficulty controlling himself?

 

The better question in these elections seems to be how.

 

Image is everything - good, bad, or superficial. Trump has shown us, and we have clearly seen through his many obnoxious ideas and declarations, that if you have a loud voice and take a few - make that many - extremes, you can brainwash an entire population into making them believe what you want them to. You can be their saviour, the one who’s going to save a country in desperate need of leadership. Mr. Trump knows it too; he’s not afraid to throw out false facts to the public, because he knows that no matter what he says, he will always have his followers who are too blinded by the money and the power he has to know what’s really being said.

 

One  of Mr. Trump’s biggest front-runners in his campaign is for the die hard anti-democrats, the ones counting the days left in the Obama Reign. Barack Obama, the man who put the United States out of one of the worst recessions in history, is one of Trump’s main targets. He consistently demanded for his “real” birth certificate to prove he was born in the United States, until recently stating that Clinton was the one who started the movement, and he ended it . This is just one in many child like tantrums Trump has thrown over his campaign. From denial, refusing to answer questions, to stating a complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States and calling an entire race “druggists and rapists”, Trump’s juvenile attitude is a big factor in what has gotten him so far in this election, and this debate did not prove otherwise - but of course, he blamed his performance on the bad microphone. You could see from the way the two candidates responded, which is more prepared for the job. Clinton’s answers were straightforward and practical, while Trump’s were radical to say the least. Statements such as his tax plan, which benefits the wealthiest and has the potential to blow the national debt by 5 trillion dollars and lose three and a half million jobs, and his statement that  his best asset is his temperament (a comical one at that), Trump seems to be going every direction but up.

 

In the words of his running mate, Mike Pence: “That’s just Donald Trump!”, we can’t say all of this is a surprise. That’s the appeal for so many people, to have a leader who says what he means. So what would happen in the now probable event that Donald Trump wins? Let’s hope we never have to find out.