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Trump's Persuasive Arguments

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Trump won the first presidential debate between himself and Hillary Clinton based on the criteria of, who had the least amounts of interruptions between the candidates and the moderator, who had the least amount of meaningless insults in their argument against each other, and the last one being who provided the most ethical, logical, and emotional appeals in their argument. All of these factors were the criteria for the winning of this debate, for the reason of the criteria providing judgment of debate etiquette and the inclusion of the needed elements of a persuasive argument. This criteria leads to the conclusion that Donald Trump won the first presidential debate.
The first criteria was the amount of interruptions the candidates had between …show more content…

While both candidates used primarily ethos for their arguments, and both were effective with their ethos arguments, so much so that neither really beat the other on providing ethical appeals. Though for logical appeals Trump provided more logical appeals than Clinton, for example Trump brought up that stop-and-frisk lowered murders for New York. While Clinton bundles that without stop-and-frisk crimes including murders are down which is also true, but as Trump said murders are going up after stop-and-frisk was no longer in use. They were both right in this instance, because murders were at their third lowest, but murders were at their lowest when stop-and-frisk was invoked, and with this argument Trump took over the logical appeal for the debate. Then going on the emotional appeals that the candidates presented, Clinton coame up almost with no emotional appeals for her argument, while Trump came up with quite a few. Trump uses the fact that he would never thought he would be making as much money as his is now, and how people should support someone that has grown from the ground up with their life, and he attempts to make many more arguments trying to appeal to people's emotional side. While Clinton only really tries to make an emotional appeal when she states that her father was a small business owner that gave them a nice middle class living, which doesn’t really move as many people as saying they have gone from nothing to something. Leaving Trump to have provided the most effective emotional appeals to his argument. All together Trump provided the most appeals for his argument by having provided more logical and emotional appeals than Clinton and the same amount of ethical appeals as her as

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