THE US presidential contest took the world's center stage last week as former president Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, debated his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, who became her party's nominee after US President Joe Biden dropped out of the race.

I watched it on TV, along with over 67 million others around the world, but as a foreigner, I have no opinion to offer on who won or lost the debate. Both candidates tried their best to win the audience, but the American voters remained divided, according to the polls after the debate. Some observers, however, thought the debate moderators showed partiality by fact-checking Trump much more than they did Harris.

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