Biden v Trump: what are the five things we learned from the presidential debate?

By Dafydd Townley, Teaching Fellow in International Security, University of Portsmouth

This was the first time that Donald Trump and Joe Biden had debated since the 2020 campaign so The Conversation asked US government and security academic Dafydd Townley to watch the head-to-head and analyse what he thought were the most important points.

Before last night’s TV debate between the two presidential candidates, most of the speculation was about how quick on his feet Joe Biden would be. The 81-year-old president’s age had…

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