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#2020Debate #2020debates

#SCOTUS up first.

What does Trump mean Democrats didn't have the election with #MerrickGarland?

@BarackObama was in the White House!

#2020Debates #2020Debate #RBG #RuthBaderGinsburg

.@JoeBiden insists should wait on #SCOTUS confirmation & see the outcome of #2020election.

If #Obamacare / #ACA struck down, what happens? Women's rights fundamentally changed.

Not appropriate before election.

#2020Debates #2020Debate #RBG #RuthBaderGinsburg

Trump again accuses @JoeBiden of "socialism" with his plan to expand #Obamacare with a public option.

Reminder: That's not #MedicareForAll.

Biden notes his plan still has private insurance.

"I'm the Democratic Party now."
#2020Debates #2020Debate

.@JoeBiden brings up #COVID19.

Trump makes false claims about Biden letting military veterans die.

Trump again makes his unsubstantiated claim 2 million would have died of COVID-19 had he not acted.

206,000 Americans are dead from COVID.

Q: What is your health care plan?
Trump: I'm going with favored nations [this will take potentially years to implement. He's done NOTHING yet to lower #drugprices].

"I'm cutting health care." [Yes, Trump indeed just said that]

#2020Debates #2020Debate #Obamacare #ACA

Trump provided no details of a health care plan he's promised he has since 2016.

Now, Trump's simply rambling on about @SenSanders & @SenWarren.

#2020Debates #2020Debate #Obamacare #ACA

.@JoeBiden: He has never offered a plan.

#Obamacare #ACA #2020Debates #2020Debate

Trump: They shouldn't even call it #Obamacare.

.@JoeBiden: He doesn't have a plan.

[Trump signed a document last week stating it's U.S. policy to protect #PreExistingConditions - protections granted under @BarackObama's Affordable Care Act]

#2020Debates #2020Debate

Chris Wallace letting this get out of control.

.@JoeBiden to Trump: Keep yapping man.

#2020Debates #2020Debate

Q: Why should Americans trust you on #COVID19?
.@JoeBiden: 200,000 dead, 7 million+ infected.
When Trump presented with number, he said "It is what it is."

Trump has no plan. He knew in Feb it was serious.

You don't panic. He panicked.

#2020Debates #2020Debate

.@JoeBiden reminds he laid out in March & again in July a #COVID19 response plan.

"You should get out of our bunker & out of your sand trap/golf course."

Biden notes Trump praised Chinese President Xi.

#2020Debates #2020Debate

Trump invokes Fauci's name.

Fauci lately has repeatedly pushed back on Trump's claims on #COVID19.

Trump now blaming press, saying nobody's praising him enough on COVID.

206,000 Americans dead from COVID-19.

#2020Debates #2020Debate

.@JoeBiden: How many of you got up & had an empty chair because of #COVID19.

Biden notes Trump's own CDC director said could lose another 200,000 before end of the year & urged #masks.

Trump to Biden: You don't trust $JNJ, $PFE.

[Trump has repeatedly praised both companies, though he's also criticized Pfizer. But he often praises Johnson & Johnson].

#2020Debates #2020Debate #COVID19 #vaccines

Trump admitting he disagrees with heads of #WarpSpeed & head of #CDC on #COVID19 #vaccines timeline.

#2020Debates #2020Debate

.@JoeBiden: He puts pressure & disagrees with his own scientists.

"You can trust the scientists," Biden says.

[Wallace gets it wrong on what @KamalaHarris said on #COVID19 #vaccines, though].

#2020Debates #2020Debate

Trump: Don't ever use the word smart with me.

[ @nytimes stories revealed Trump's a failed businessman]

#2020Debates #2020Debate

Trump insisting it's just elderly people with heart problems, diabetes dying of #COVID19.

That's not true.

Recall, Trump a few weeks ago at his rally called those who have died "virtually nobody."

206,000 Americans are dead.

#2020Debates #2020Debate

Trump: I wear masks when needed.

[No, he doesn't]

#2020Debates #2020Debate #MaskUp #masks #COVID19

Trump now again invoking Fauci again, this time on #Masks

[And he's right. Fauci & others told Americans early on not to wear masks. But it was Trump's @Surgeon_General who openly & repeatedly shamed Americans for wearing masks]

#2020Debates #2020Debate

.@JoeBiden: He's been totally irresponsible for how he's handled #socialdistancing & wearing #masks.

He's a fool on this.

#2020Debates #2020Debate #COVID19

Trump again claims he built the U.S. economy. He didn't. He was given a very good economy [Recall, @BarackObama rebuilt the U.S. economy after George W. Bush's & Republicans' 2007-2008 financial crisis.].

#2020Debates #2020Debate #COVID19

There's the $750 in taxes.

.@JoeBiden: Trump is going to be the firsts president in U.S. who had fewer jobs than when he became president.

He can't fix economy until he fixes #COVID19 crisis. He has no intention of making it better for you at home.

#2020Debates #2020Debate

.@JoeBiden: He's done nothing to help small businesses.

Trump responds with "People want their places open."

Biden: People want to be safe.

Trump: I brought back football. 🙄🙄🙄

#2020Debates #2020Debate #COVID19

Q: $750 paid in taxes?

Trump claiming he's paid "millions of dollars."

.@JoeBiden: Show us your tax returns.

Trump: You'll see it as soon as its finished.

Wallace: Will you tell us how much you paid in taxes 2016 & 2017?

Trump: Millions of dollars. And you'll get to see it.

Wallace: When?

#2020Debates #2020Debate

.@JoeBiden: Trump says he's smart because he can take advantage of the tax code. That's why I'm going to eliminate the Trump tax cuts.

People out there need help.

Biden to Trump: You're the worst president America's ever had.

#2020Debates #2020Debate

Trump's arguing like he does with the press at his taxpayer-paid campaign events at the White House. He's not really answering questions & he's making claims with no evidence.

#2020Debates #2020Debate

Wallace to Trump: You would continue free-market approach? In @BarackObama's final 3 years, more jobs created in than in your first 3 years of your presidency.

Trump claims it was slow recovery. Reminder: Bush/GOP were in charge 2008 financial crisis.

#2020Debates #2020Debate

.@JoeBiden: He's done very little. His trade deal same way.

China has perfected the art of the steal.

We have higher deficit.

Then Trump makes claims without evidence of Hunter Biden.

#2020Debates #2020Debate

.@JoeBiden: It's hard to get any word in with this clown.

#2020Debates #2020Debate

Chris Wallace: Gentlemen!

#2020Debates #2020Debate

OMG, Trump.

[So, that debate prep @ChrisChristie helped Trump with?]

#2020Debates #2020Debate

Q: Why should voters trust you on race issue?

@JoeBiden: it's about equity, equality, decency. It's about the Constitution.

Biden then accuses Trump of walking away from racial equity/issues.

#2020Debates #2020Debate

.@JoeBiden: He came out of his bunker, had military use tear gas & held up a Bible.

Trump has used everything as a dog whistle to try to generate racist hatred.

He notes Trump has ignored that Black Americans are being hit hardest by #COVID19.

#2020Debates #2020Debate

Trump answers racial equity question by stating: "I'm letting people out of jail now."

Trump again claiming he's law & order.

#2020Debates #2020Debate #racism

.@JoeBiden: Violence is never appropriate.

Trump: What is peaceful? When they run through the town & burn down doors?
[So, does he mean those guys at #Charlottesville? Or the ones in Michigan?]

#2020Debates #2020Debate #racism

Trump says he's not going to let schools teach anything about #racism.

#2020Debates #2020Debate

.@JoeBiden: I believe in law & order with justice where people get treated fairly.

#2020Debates #2020Debate

Wallace: There have been equivalent spikes in Republican-led cities. Is this a party issue?

Trump: I think it is.

[Trump then ignores the GOP cities & brings up Chicago, NYC.]

#2020Debates #2020Debate

.@JoeBiden about Trump: He wouldn't know the suburbs unless he took a wrong turn.

What really is a threat to suburbs is Trump's refusal to do anything about #COVID19.

#2020Debates #2020Debate

.@JoeBiden: I support police having opportunity to deal with problems they face.
I oppose defunding police.
They need more assistance.
They need psychologists/psychiatrists with them.

#2020Debates #2020Debate

Trump pressing Biden on law enforcement that support him.

Here you go:
foxnews.com/politics/biden…

#2020Debates #2020Debate

.@JoeBiden says cities can take care of rioters if Trump would stay out of the way.

Trump then starts shouting about one of his supporters who was killed but he doesn't ever say anything about Kyle Rittenhouse of James Alex Fields.

#2020Debates #2020Debate

Now the argument is who is worse: White supremacists/Nazis or Antifa

#2020Debates #2020Debate

Trump now praising himself repeatedly.

And he brings up @HillaryClinton.

And there's #SpaceForce [wondered when he would bring that up]

#2020Debates #2020Debate #COVID19

Reminder: .@senatemajldr blocked @BarackObama's federal judge nominations, including #SCOTUS nominee #MerrickGarland.

#2020Debates #2020Debate

.@JoeBiden: Trump has left U.S. weaker, sicker, poor, more divided & more violent.
We left him a booming economy & he caused a recession.

I've gone head to head with #Putin & he's Putin's puppy

#2020Debates #2020Debate #COVID19 #racism #Russia #RussianMeddling

.@JoeBiden goes after Trump for calling military soldiers "suckers" & "losers"" My son was in Iraq. He got the bronze star. He was not a loser. He was a patriot.

Trump: I don't know Beau. I know Hunter.

#2020Debates #2020Debate

Wallace: I'd like to talk about #ClimateChange.
He notes Trump said "I don't think the science knows" about #wildfires & #Climate.

Trump: I want crystal clean water & air. [He's crippled the EPA & ignored Climate Change.]

Trump: Forest management

#2020Debates #2020Debate

Trump complains: California burning. California burning. If you had good forest management, you wouldn't be getting those calls.

#2020Debates #2020Debate #ClimateChange #wildfires

Trump: The car has gotten much more expensive because they have computers all over the place.
What they've done in California is just crazy. 🙄

#2020Debates #2020Debate #ClimateChange #wildfires

.@JoeBiden: Nobody is going to build another coal-fired plant in America.

#2020Debates #2020Debate #ClimateChange #wildfires

.@JoeBiden: With us out of the #ParisAccord, look what's happening. It's all falling apart.

#2020Debates #2020Debate #ClimateChange #wildfires

Trump insisting @JoeBiden is for the Green New Deal. He's not.

#2020Debates #2020Debate #ClimateChange #wildfires

Trump seems to have no other way to go after Biden tonight than to go after Biden's Dem primary opponents' plans but Trump doesn't really have any way to go after Biden's actual proposals.

#2020Debates #2020Debate #ClimateChange #wildfires

.@JoeBiden: The Green New Deal is not my plan.

#2020Debates #2020Debate #ClimateChange #Climate #wildfires

.@JoeBiden: I support the Biden plan than I put forward, which is different than the Green New Deal.

#2020Debates #2020Debate #ClimateChange #Climate #wildfires

Again, that prep @ChrisChristie gave Trump tonight.

[And is @ABC still paying Christie as a commentator? If so, it needs to stop it now!]

#2020Debates #2020Debate

.@JoeBiden ends with urging Americans to vote.

He cannot stop you from determining the outcome of this election.

He can't stay in power. It won't happen.

#2020Debates #2020Debate

Trump ends by making a lot of unsubstantiated/false conspiracy theory claims.

"We've got it all on tape." [Where? ]

"They found them in creeks." 🙄

"This is going to be a fraud like you've never seen."

"It's a fraud."
#2020Debates #2020Debate #2020Elections #MailInballots

Has there ever been a presidential debate where the person in the White House claims the U.S. voting system is a fraud?

#2020Debates #2020Debate #2020Elections #MailInballots

Trump makes an unsubstantiated claim: "They're being dumped in rivers."

#2020Debates #2020Debate #2020Elections #MailInballots

Q: Will you urge your supporters to stay calm & not claim victory.

Trump: I'm urging my supporters to go into the polls & watch very carefully. [He's urging voter intimidation right now].

#2020Debates #2020Debate #2020Elections #MailInballots

.@JoeBiden: Yes. You count the ballots.
It's going to take time to do it.

Military has been voting by #MailInBallots since Civil War.

No one has established it's a fraud.

#2020Debates #2020Debate #2020Elections #MailInBallots

.@JoeBiden: I will accept it & he will to.

Once winner is declared, that will be the end of it.

I will be a president for Democrats & Republicans.

[Trump tries to interrupt again]

#2020Debates #2020Debate #2020Elections #MailInBallots

On @ABC, @GStephanopoulos says it was the "worst" presidential debate he's ever seen.

#2020Debates #2020Debate #2020Elections

Shutting down @ABC coverage right now. They are using @ChrisChristie as a commentator. Christie helped prep Trump & was at the White House this week.

Beyond shameful @ABC.

#2020Debates #2020Debate #2020Elections