Wait, Trump just said he will cut drug prices 80-90%. WUT
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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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Everybody's gonna be mad at Chris Wallace after this debate, but his position is so impossible, I don't know that any moderator could do a good job with this mess.
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Biden now narrating the two rallies in Charlottesville as a single event.
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Trump now wrapping himself in criminal justice reform, which is ironic for the two candidates' postures even though it has some basis.
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Now, Trump pivots in the same answer to law and order. He's making two solid points, but in a seriously contradictory way.
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The law enforcement issues really cut both ways for both of these guys, which is why you get Biden defending cops.
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In Biden's case, his instincts are pro-law enforcement, pro-cops. But his base is pulling the other way.
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Trump on critical race theory training: "I ended it because it was racist...You know it and everybody else knows it."
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Trump all but going into the Animal House speech about talking down the USA
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Biden can't defend left-wing extremism on critical race theory in diversity training, which many corporate employees have been subjected to, so he just flatly denies it exists.
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There are areas Biden is prepared to engage on, but when you get him on anything uncomfortable, he just goes to bald-faced denial.
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