Biden says the people's say in the SCOTUS nomination includes the election of Senators, which torpedoes his entire argument but his muscle memory probably requires him to mention the Senate.
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Biden staring at Wallace like "is my mike on?"
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Trump is doing the Biden-against-Paul-Ryan thing of yelling down everything he says.
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Trump is overdoing the yelling down Biden thing. I doubt this is strategy. It's too much.
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Now, the Court-packing question. "Whatever position I take, that will become the issue." Biden refuses to answer. "I'm not gonna answer the question." "Will you shut up, man?" "Who's on your list?" "We have ended the segment" "Keep yapping, man."
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Wallace [Mr. Hand voice, close to tears]: "Let's try to be serious about it."
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WALLACE "First question, two minutes, uninterrupted." BIDEN "Good luck."
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Trump says we can't trust COVID numbers from...India?
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Trump embracing Fauci, as we all knew he would need to do at this juncture.
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Biden saying Trump is the one who demanded shutdowns, which is some serious revisionist history.
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Biden sowing mistrust on vaccines again.
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Trump now bringing up Biden lies about his education from 1987.
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It is actually sort of amazing that Joe Biden was successfully insulted on his intelligence by Trump, of all people.
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Trump calls out Biden for trying to promise that he alone can reopen the country while also promising to shut down the country.
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Trump running away from any sort of mask skepticism.
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Now we enter the shape-recognition portion of the test.
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Trump's "he will shut it down again" line is going to draw some blood.
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Biden has some legitimate backwards-looking criticisms of Trump on COVID, but he has nothing even vaguely resembling a coherent forward-looking plan.
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Trump's facial expressions when he's staying quiet while Biden is talking are awful.
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It makes more sense, in terms of their respective bases, to get to the point where Trump argues for opening things & Biden argues for closing them.
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Trump is STILL claiming you'll get to see his tax returns, which is nonsense.
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Now, Trump moves on to better ground on taxes, that a lot of his tax benefits came from Congress, including the Obama stimulus.
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Biden now arguing that Trump was president for his entire tenure in the Senate.
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Much of the reaction to this debate - not the words, but the candidates - depends on whether bullying works. In 2012, Biden beat Ryan by bullying, shouting down fact & reason. Tonight, Trump is bullying. Will it work just as well?
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Biden & Wallace trying to relitigate the 2009-19 economy is not a winning move,
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Now, we get the Hunter Biden fight. Biden flatly denies that Hunter got the $3.5 million.
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Biden: "My son did nothing wrong." But he offers nothing but flat denials.
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"I can't get a word in with this clown." - Biden
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Trump: "Can I be honest?" Wallace: "The answer is no."
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