“In German debate, Merkel and her challenger go after Trump, but not each other”
The TV debate between conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel and her social-democratic rival Martin Schulz three weeks before the parliamentary elections “was billed by broadcasters as a duel but at times better resembled a duet,” Griff Witte writes for the Washington Post. The debate “featured an entirely civil exchange of ideas” between the two candidates whose parties have governed the country together in a coalition for the past four years, but lacked any true antagonism between the contenders, he says. US President Donald Trump “received far more criticism than either candidate unloaded on the other,” Witte says.
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