“Where is the beef?”: After Clinton and Trump opted for the style on the substance, here are the burning problems that we must tackle in the next debate

Is it too early to start waiting for the second presidential debate? Well, Donald Trump has not yet ceased to religious, after having spent most of blaming his terrible performance on Monday evening in turn on the Lester Holt moderator, the former Miss Universe Alicia Machado and a debate commission that he suggested gave him a defective microphone.

But while a large part of the post-debate commentary focused on the way in which the republican presidential candidate Trump and his rival Hillary Clinton exercised under the lively lights of the debate scene, less attention was paid to the policies that each has recommended. In the case of Trump, it is partly because it changes its political preferences more often that most people change their underwear.

Don’t you like a Trump proposal? Wait 30 seconds, he will have another.

As for Clinton, his reputation is that of a policy that likes to dive deep into problems. Indeed, it is supposed to be one of the sale arguments of his candidacy. Substitutes for the campaign have often cited thousands of words on policy on its website compared to a few hundred on Trump.

An area where she has trouble is to link the importance of her political solutions to their ability to materially affect unhappy voters who are not enthusiastic to vote for her. So, some specific questions about politics could help her in this area, if she can answer it without part of the failure she showed on Monday evening.

Of course, it is difficult to integrate complex political solutions in the two minutes allocated to answer questions. And any candidate will want to avoid going deep into political weeds and losing the public. However, there have been some blatant omissions: the list of questions that did not obtain an antenna time or at most a passing mention on Monday includes some of the most urgent problems with which we are faced.

So, with the next debate scheduled for a week from this Sunday, here are some subjects that the moderators Anderson Cooper of CNN and Martha Raddatz of ABC must question the candidates:

Climate change

President Barack Obama said climate change is the most urgent foreign policy of our time. Competition of nations for resources that have been degraded and decreased by a warming planet already leads to violent conflicts in the world. Indeed, there is evidence that drought motivated by climate change has planted the seeds of the civil war in Syria which will be a foreign policy priority for the next president.

The United States is part of the global climatic treaties that force him to do his share to reduce emissions. So, if a new administration would honor these treaties is an important question for the rest of the world. Our soldiers, whom Trump continues to claim that he wants to rebuild, already counts climate change in his long -term plans. The GoP may want to claim that the phenomenon does not occur, but that will not stop it.

However, the only mention of climate change on Monday was when Clinton refers to a 2012 Trump tweet in which the real estate magnate accused the Chinese of having invented this “hoax” in order to destroy the American economy. It deserves more attention than that – much more.

Health care

Obamacare always faces a resistance led by the GOP and continuous efforts to kill him. This causes problems to public members. Trump’s plan has been the same as for over a year: repeal Obamacare and “replace it with something great”. Clinton signed the idea of a public option that would extend the coverage and provide some competition to insurers.

Seven years after the passage of Obamacare, the two parties still have a enormous and uncontrollable philosophical gap on the right of the Americans to have access to health insurance. A presidential debate is a good opportunity for candidates to tell the public the public how his choice this fall will affect if they have this access to the future.

Right to vote

The Republican Party has led a sustained effort to deprive voters, especially people of color, who generally vote democratic. These efforts, which were increased after the Supreme Court dominated by the Conservatives in 2013, emptied the law on voting rights, were so blatant that the federal courts furiously slapped. However, some of the laws promulgated by states for the identification of voters and other restrictions will prevent thousands of people from voting this year.

Trump, with his new concern for the African-American community, should be strongly pressed if he agrees with the other members of his party that he should prevent the most blacks from voting. Clinton, on the other hand, could be questioned on his plans announced to restore voting rights and to what extent she intends to restore the franchise.

Family leave

One of the rare subjects on We have a specific plan for the two candidates is family leave. Given the history of Trump’s sexism and misogyny as well as his pride in having barely raised a finger to help raise one of his children, it seems to be a foolproof subject that will make the two candidates speak – and to fight. Serious problems can still make excellent television.

The moderators have until October 9 to prepare their questions. Hoping that they will approach at least a few of the problems ignored during the first debate.