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: "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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Biden: "I have never said I oppose fracking." This is a lie. He's been back & forth on this, but he absolutely said in the March debate with Bernie he would ban fracking. We all saw it.
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Biden, who said just moments ago he never said he was against fracking, now says he wants to ban it on federal land.
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Biden talking about how when he was growing up in Delaware, there were more oil refineries there than in Houston. Long time ago.
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Biden almost got out of this exchange until Trump caught him & got him to say he was transitioning away from the oil industry. This is where Dem enviro policy slams into Biden's old-timey blue collar guy ethos.
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Biden sounds as hoarse at the end as Trump did at the start.
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I only wanted to put my foot through the TV at Trump 2 or 3 times, which I suppose is a relatively good performance for him.
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