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Oct 23, 2020 09:17 AM IST | Source: Moneycontrol.com
US Presidential Debate 2020 Highlights: Trump, Biden spar over coronavirus, climate change and race in less chaotic debate
Highlights of the final presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden
The final presidential debate involving United States President and Republican Party candidate Donald Trump and his rival from the Democratic Party Joe Biden, has concluded. The debate spanned 90 minutes and involved topics such as fighting COVID-19, climate change, national security and the two candidates’ leadership record. Most opinion polls have placed former vice president Biden in the lead. But, with less than two weeks to go before the final ballots are cast, things could change with any slip up. This debate served as the last opportunity for millions of voters to directly compare the two leading candidates’ policies and personalities.
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Opinion polls: Biden is ahead. Can Trump catch up?
Preparing for a battle
Smaller audience for today's debate
Rule change: Microphones on mute for opening two minutes in each segment
Debate topics
Moderation and format
What? When? Where?
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US Presidential Debate 2020 LIVE Updates | After the first presidential debate was panned so widely that organizers introduced a mute button, the final debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden was far more civil.
Read more: Trump, Biden's presidential debate marked by clashes, but less chaos
US Presidential Debate 2020 LIVE Updates | Trump referring to India, Russia and China’s air quality as filthy is drawing sharp reactions on social media. The remark may upset some within the electorally significant Indian-American community.
Polls already show that the Indian-American community overwhelmingly supports Joe Biden and Kamala Harris – probably helped by the latter’s Indian heritage.
US Presidential Debate 2020 LIVE Updates | During the debate Biden and Trump are sparred over the nation’s reliance on oil – and what needs to be done to reduce future emissions.
Biden said the US needs to embrace clean energy and eventually transition away from the use of oil. Trump quickly pounced, cutting in, “That’s a big statement,” and wondered aloud if voters in oil-producing states like Texas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania were listening. (Input from the Associated Press)
US Presidential Debate 2020 LIVE Updates | The final presidential debate has concluded. First Lady Melania Trump and Jill Biden join their husbands on the stage, as they wave to the audience.
US Presidential Debate 2020 LIVE Updates | Biden says his climate change plan is endorsed by every major environmental and labour group.
“I know more about wind energy than you (Biden) do. It is extremely expensive and kills all the birds,” Trump claims.
US Presidential Debate 2020 LIVE Updates | The next segment is on climate change.
“We have so many different programmes, we have clean air,” Trump says. “Look at China. How filthy it is. Look at Russia, look at India. It is filthy,” Trump adds, talking about the air quality.
We have done a good job environmentally, and have the cleanest air, Trumps says.
US Presidential Debate 2020 LIVE Updates | “I am the least racist person in this world,” Trump says. “I got criminal justice reform done.”
“You (Biden) have nothing other than the crime bill that has put tens of thousands of Black men in jail,” Trump adds.
US Presidential Debate 2020 LIVE Updates | Trump has questioned why Biden was not able to achieve what he is promising now when he was in the Obama administrating. “I ran (for office) because of you. I ran because Obama and you did a poor job. If you would have done a good job, I wouldn’t have run,” Trump says.
US Presidential Debate 2020 LIVE Updates | Earlier in the debate, Trump said only undocumented immigrants who appear for their court dates are those with the “lowest IQ.”
“Only the really – I hate to say this, but those with the lowest IQ. They might come back,” Trump said.