Welker: How would you handle COVID going forward. Trump: Let's talk about my record.
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Trump promising a vaccine in weeks, talking Operation Warp Speed. Trump does not sound good. Scratchy, nervous, not swaggering.
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Trump & Biden Red/Blue ties going to their base for the closing argument.
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Biden: Trump is responsible for every COVID death. Still pushing this.
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Biden promises 200,000 more deaths in the next nine weeks.
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Biden says we should do [list of things we are already doing]
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Welker & Trump distinguishing "weeks" from "the end of the year" when we are fewer than ten weeks from the end of the year.
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Trump says 100 million vials as soon as the vaccine is ready to go.
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Biden: no prospect of a vaccine before the middle of next year.
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Biden: OK, I didn't mean Trump closing travel from China was xenophobic, I just meant Trump is generally so it's OK to throw that around for anything he does.
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Trump: "BIden has this thing about living in a basement...I'd love to lock myself up in a basement."
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Trump: "We can't close up our nation...or we're not going to have a basement."
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Biden says Trump says the virus is not dangerous. Trump says he takes responsibility but it's China's fault.
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Trump has warmed up a little now. He's still Trump, but at least now he's not less than Trump.
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Welker: what do you say about all the other harms of lockdowns? Biden: All Trump's fault. I only want the virus to stay home.
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Biden has now moved on from there should be no shutdowns to listing all the things he wants shut down.
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Trump pushing open the schools. Which in some places is very popular, but not without controversy. Welker balks at the danger of any school opening.
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There is good ground to hit Biden here on being too heavy on shutdowns. Trump: "the cure should not be worse than the disease."
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Biden says we should start doing testing, tracing, plastic barriers. Brand new ideas.
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Trump actually sincere, for once, on how much he loved NY. Yes, he'd be better if he drilled into the nursing home disaster.https://twitter.com/NathanWurtzel/status/1319448929889603584 …
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Biden has staked out a clearer high ground here, but it is risky if voters have any knowledge or opinions of their own. Trump, by contrast, has a winnable message but difficulty reconciling it with his own prior statements.
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Trump going back to his "puppet? You're the puppet" thing when Biden talks about Wall Street.
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Welker: hey, grandpas, can we talk about foreign policy?
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Biden complaining now that Trump doesn't talk to Putin enough.
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Trump doing his petulant stare while Biden goes on about Rudy.
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Biden still running with the "bounties in Afghanistan" story which has fewer on-the-record sources than the Hunter Biden story.
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Trump: "I don't get money from Russia" [Not counting Trump Tower Moscow]
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Trump says nobody has been tougher on Russia, which is classic lily-gilding. But the Admin's record *is* better than Trump's rhetoric would lead you to believe.
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