Biden accuses Trump of being soft on China. Trump has not been nearly as effective or hardline as he claims, but I doubt this is going to draw much blood.
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Biden says that if you liked your insurance under Obamacare, you kept it, and the same will happen under Bidencare. Um.
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Trump bugs his eyes when Biden tells him he's not done talking, he's gotta wait.
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Biden says there is nothing socialist about a government-run, government-owned program.
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Trump tries to butter up Welker in the middle of an answer about socialized medicine and fracking and he's just all over the place.
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Biden gets angry when you talk about him being pushed around by the lefties in his party.
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Biden says Social Security is almost bankrupt, which is true, but of course both candidates plan to make that worse.
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Trump has to explain to Welker that he can't pass things through the House without the House.
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Biden now talking about his management of the stimulus, which is not exactly a strong point in his record.
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Trump now talking about illegal immigration. Which he has done shockingly little of in the stretch run.
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Biden sticking up explicitly for federal bailouts for spendthrift cities & states.
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Trump actually trying to make the most sensible argument about the federal minimum wage, which is the vast variance in cost of living in different places. Biden says first responders are minimum wage jobs.
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Trump hits Biden for cages built under Obama, Biden has no answer.
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Trump trying to keep on the cages subject, but of course, he's not answering the questions himself about family separation.
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Biden implicitly slags Obama on why he'll get immigration done now: "I'll be president, not vice president."
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Trump suggests that people who show up for deportation hearings are suckers,
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Trump doing his whole riff on how he's better than Biden on race, best since Lincoln, Biden's crime bill.
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These guys are muddying the waters on who is the law & order guy and who is the opponent of big incarceration, because they're both lying about a bunch of stuff & both conflicted on how to pitch the issue.
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Trump: "don't give me this stuff about how you're this innocent baby."
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OK, now both of them are talking about Russia, everybody's happy place.
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Trump: "I am the least racist person in this room." Well, there are not that many people in the room.
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Biden: "Abraham Lincoln here," "dog whistle about as big as a foghorn."
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Trump now, suddenly, persnickity about parsing his own words.
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These two guys seem to be gradually realizing that this is a debate between two elderly idiots.
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Trump is utterly incapable of talking about race with any sort of sensitivity or empathy, but he does seem to be able to bull through, with some non-trivial number of non-white voters, simply by virtue of chutzpah.
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Real talk: Biden's crime policies in the 1990s were mostly good, Trump agreed with them at the time, so did most people in both parties. But Biden is totally insincere claiming a belated conversion on them now.
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Trump does have a point contrasting the US environment to that in Russia, China, India.
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Trump accuses Biden of wanting to ban windows.
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Biden: "I don't know where he comes from" Trump (under his breath): "Queens"
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