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Tras su penoso desempeño en el primer debate, el presidente de EE. UU. se negó a un encuentro virtual con su rival, Joe Biden. ¿Importan los debates en estas elecciones? El director de la biblioteca del Centro Colombo Americano de Bogotá, Pedro Lutz, explica que históricamente los debates han sido tan importantes que han definido la presidencia como en el caso de Kennedy y Nixon en 1960.

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00:18In the United States they are very important, people are very careful.
00:23A media media like the United States is very important.
00:27The debates have always been important.
00:30Perhaps they have acquired more importance now on TV.
00:35There have been very important debates.
00:39There are a couple of anecdotes.
00:40For example, in the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
00:44would never have been elected president
00:46and not had a political career so important
00:49if the television had existed at that moment.
00:52Roosevelt was confined to a lot of their adulthood
00:56and if there were debates in which he would have appeared in a seat
01:01always said that people voted for what they knew of him
01:05but never saw him.
01:07He didn't have that image.
01:09The importance of TV is very important for the debates presidenciales.
01:13There have been some very important debates.
01:15It says that the election was decided in that moment.
01:20Maybe the most important thing was in 1960
01:23when the election of the president Kennedy.
01:25The presidential debate was the first in history
01:29that was televised in all the territories.
01:32And there were two candidates completely different.
01:35The candidate Kennedy was quiet,
01:39he knew how to manage the camera.
01:41And the other candidate,
01:42who, at that time,
01:44was the candidate who was winning in the polls
01:46but who, after that day,
01:47was Richard Nixon.
01:50Nixon, in the debate of 1960,
01:52he started to sweat a lot.
01:55He didn't manage the camera.
01:56There were hundreds of times
01:58in which he was taking a mask
01:59and pulling his sweat off.
02:01And he gave the wrong image
02:03of the fact that he was under the camera
02:05that he didn't know how to react.
02:07And his counterpart Kennedy
02:08was so quiet.
02:11He resolved the questions
02:12by looking at the camera
02:13how he managed everything.
02:14That he said
02:15that he was fundamental
02:17for Kennedy to be elected.
02:22This year the two candidates are the current President Donald Trump for the Republican Party,
02:28a person who didn't have an important political story, he was more commercial, of entertainment,
02:35of raíces, and he was registered for many years as a Democrat, he didn't become Republican
02:42but since he was very little. On the other hand, Joe Biden, who has been a political leader,
02:51six times Senator of Vermont, eight years of Vice President Barack Obama.
03:03The 3rd of November, no only elected President and Vice President of the United States,
03:08but in the Senate, one third part of the Senate, so for this year, this 3rd of November,
03:15there are 35 Senators who are going to be elected, normally there are 32,
03:19this year there are two specials, so there are 35 Senators who are going to be elected
03:25on the 3rd of November, and by the Cámara of Representatives, the total,
03:30the 435 asientos of the Cámara of Representatives will be voted on the November.
03:38math againstyes tartensit that has happened in 2019.
03:43He has approved as well as well, let's press the 1st of November
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