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 WASHINGTON, June 27 (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden and his Republican rival Donald Trump took the stage on Thursday night for a debate that offered voters a rare side-by-side look at the two oldest candidates ever to seek the U.S. presidency.
Here are some of the major takeaways:
HOARSE AND BUGGY

Viewers learned little new about where both candidates stood on the main issues, but arguably that is not why many tuned in.
The leading question going into the debate was how the two