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Entity reports on the first presidential debate between hillary clinton and donald trump.

With all the drama surrounding the 2016 presidential elections, network analysts and political strategists expected the first presidential debate to have an audience size as high as 100 million viewers, which, as The New York Times points out, is “Super Bowl territory.”

But regardless of how many women and men decided to tune in tonight, everyone watching definitely got a taste of what the coming months will be like between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. In this first debate, the two candidates shared their plans to address the nation’s issues on job security, race relations, immigration, national security, nuclear weapons and more.

And, as expected, various personal attacks on Trump’s tax returns, his sexism and Senator Clinton’s emails were made during the debate. In between the policy discussions, Trump proclaimed, “I will release my tax returns against my lawyer’s wishes when she releases her thirty three thousand e-mails that have been deleted.”

Senator Clinton, on the other hand, reargued the point she tried to make in her newest campaign, “Mirrors,” about how Trump is a man who has called women “pigs, slobs and dogs.”

Which of these people will actually help make America great again?

1 How is America going to achieve prosperity?

For many women in America, gender equality issues – like closing the gender wage gap and supporting maternity leave – are on the forefront of their minds. So, when the candidates were asked about their plans to improve job economy in America, Senator Clinton’s answer may have caught their attention.

“The central question in this election is really what kind of country we want to be and what kind of future we will build together,” she says. “We have to build an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top.”

According to Senator Clinton, she plans to invest in the public by creating new jobs in infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, innovation and technology, clean renewable energy and small businesses. And part of investing in the nation’s future also involves raising the national minimum wage and equal pay for woman’s work.

“I want us to do more to support people who are struggling to balance family and work,” Senator Clinton argues. So, she says workplaces should also have paid family leave, earned sick days and affordable child care.

Donald Trump, on the other hand, believes that reducing taxes “from thirty five percent to fifteen percent for companies, small and big businesses,” will help create jobs because “companies will come, they will build, they will expand [and] new companies will start.” With that kind of growth, he expects more jobs to be available.

Trump also says that he generally agrees with Senator Clinton’s child care plans. “As far as child care is concerned, so many of the things I think Hillary and I agree on that,” he says. “We probably disagree a little bit as to numbers and amounts and what we’re going to do but perhaps will be talking about that later.”

However, Danielle Kurtzleben, politics reporter, fact checks Trump on the National Public Radio transcript of the event and says, “Trump and Clinton disagree more than a little bit on child care.” According to her, Trump’s plan would allow parents to deduct the state’s average cost of child care and he would introduce rebates for lower-income parents. There would also be a new savings accounts for parents to save specifically for child care.

Clinton, on the other hand, has said that families should not pay more than 10 percent of their income for child care. But Kurtzleben says, “[It] is not clear how that would be implemented.” Clinton has also advocated for more Head Start funding, universal pre-K programs and 12 weeks of paid parental leave. Clinton’s parental leave will be paid by taxes on higher income Americans while Trump’s six weeks of paid maternity leave falls under the unemployment program.

2 How do you plan to heal America’s racial divide?

With this question, Senator Clinton answers first and reiterates that “race remains a significant challenge in our country.” She explains that a person’s race determines the kind of education they receive, the location of their homes and how they are treated in the criminal justice system. And as Anya Kamenetz, education correspondent on National Public Radio points out, “51 percent of high schools with high black and Latino enrollment have assigned police officers [and] black students are 2.3 times more likely than white students to be referred to law enforcement or arrested as a result of a school incident.”

Thus, Senator Clinton says it’s important that “everyone should be respected by the law and everyone should respect the law.” Upon becoming president, she plans to implement a criminal justice reform while working with police officers to make sure they “respect the communities and the communities respect them.” She also plans to “get guns out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them.”

Donald Trump, on the other hand, advocated for the “stop and frisk” tactic, arguing that it “worked well” in places like Chicago and New York by decreasing the number of people who have been killed by gun violence. Although Trump does not agree that “stop and frisk” promotes racial profiling, the New York Civil Liberties Union reveals that “nearly nine out of ten stopped-and-frisked New Yorkers have been completely innocent.” Not only that, from 2002-2015, around 70 to 80 percent of people stopped by the police were people of color.

The two candidates, however, did agree that they simply want to take guns away from criminals. Senator Clinton says, “We need comprehensive background checks and we need to keep guns out of the hands of those who will do harm. We finally need to pass a prohibition on anyone who is on the terrorist watch list from being able to buy a gun in our country.”

3 How will you strengthen national security and solve the problem of nuclear weapons?

In answering these two questions, Senator Clinton began by saying that cyber security is “one of the biggest challenges facing the next president” and the nation has two different adversaries: independent hacking groups and areas of states, such as Russia.

Donald Trump then adds to Senator Clinton’s statements about how serious these cyber threats are by saying, “I think Secretary Clinton and myself would agree very much when you look at what ISIS is doing with the Internet. They’re beating us at our own game. So, we have to get very, very tough on cyber and cyber warfare. It is a huge problem.”

One of the main solutions offered was by Hillary Clinton, arguing that people need to do more with America’s technology companies to prevent ISIS and their operatives “from being able to use the internet to radicalize, even direct, people in our country, in Europe and elsewhere.” She then proposes that America intensifies the airstrikes against ISIS.

But Trump says that he would “take in the oil” because ISIS “would not have been able to form [without the oil since] the oil was a primary source of income.” To explain this, Phil Ewing, National Public Radio’s national security editor, says Trump’s support for “taking the oil” appears to support deploying U.S. troops to seize energy production infrastructures in Iraq, Syria and other parts of the world.

The debate then continued with a discussion of nuclear weapons. Senator Clinton plans to honor America’s mutual defense treaties with Japan, South Korea and other countries while Trump thinks “China should solve the problem for [America].”

As the first presidential debate came to a close, the two candidates decided to end the night with side remarks about whether or not they think their opponent is fit to become commander in chief. Senator Clinton accuses Trump’s “cavalier attitude” as incapable of making a rational decision about nuclear weapons. Trump, on the other hand, says Senator Clinton “doesn’t have the [presidential] look [or] the stamina.”

According to him, “To be president of this country you need tremendous stamina. You have to be able to negotiate our trade deals … I don’t believe that Hillary has that stamina.” Trump explained his opinion that Senator Clinton had no stamina although she has had traveled to 112 countries around the world to negotiate a peace deal and has spent about 11 hours testifying in front of a congressional committee about the Benghazi attacks in 2015.

Senator Clinton then snaps back with remarks about Trump’s blatant sexism, such as his comment about how “pregnancy is an inconvenience.”

As CNN stated in the beginning of their broadcast of the debate, 18 percent of voters might change their mind as a result of the presidential debates. Which side are you now leaning towards?

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