President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden kept things generally civil for a large portion of the debate.
If you were worried Thursday's debate was going to be a repeat of September's master class in interruption, you might have been pleasantly surprised. For most of the night.
“We’re fighting it and we’re fighting it hard,” Trump said. “There’s some spikes and surges in other places, and they will soon be gone.” The former vice president shot back,"He says ‘we're learning to live with it.’ People are learning to die with it."Trump again accused Biden and his son, Hunter, of taking money from China, which the former vice president quickly denied.
The president’s tax returns would detail whether Trump still had the account, but he has refused to release them, arguing he can't because they are under audit. But an audit does not mean Trump to keep his tax returns private. But the former vice president has campaigned against the adoption of a single-payer health care system, and instead proposed expanding the Affordable Care Act with a public option, which he called “Bidencare” on stage.
“We’re going to make sure we’re in a situation where we’re actually going to protect pre-existing conditions” he added. “He’s never come up with a plan.” "We're trying very hard, but a lot of these kids come up without the parents. They come over through cartels and the coyotes," Trump said when asked how he plans to reunite those families.
“They’re going to be immediately certified again to stay in this country and put on a path to citizenship” rather than “sent home to a country they’ve never seen before,” Biden said of his plan. “Many of them are model citizens. Over 20,000 of them are first responders out there taking care of people during this crisis. We owe them.”
In their first face-off, the two candidates frequently interrupted each other, with Trump scolded for cutting off his opponent more frequently. After all the crosstalk in the first debate, the Commission on Presidential Debates said each candidate who have two minutes of uninterrupted time to answer the initial question in each topic section. The other candidate would have their microphone muted.
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