Thread by @MZHemingway

Trump asked about his nomination of Amy Coney Barrett. He says that elections have consequences, that Republicans won presidency and senate. That ACB is a great judge. "As good as anybody who has served on that court."

Strong tie game from both Trump and Biden.

"I'm not opposed to the justice, she's a very fine person." -- Biden says of Judge Amy Coney Barrett

"I am the Democrat Party right now. The platform of the Democrat Party is what I approve of." -- Biden.

"Guess they didn't shift the circadian rhythms enough." -- Overheard at the debate watch party I'm at, regarding Biden's answer in the first segment ...

Even Biden laughed when Trump said that he guessed he had to debate Wallace in addition to Biden. (This is what killed Mondale's chances, when he laughed at Reagan's jokes)

"I beat Bernie Sanders." -- Biden
"Not by much." -- Trump

When Biden claims everything Trump says is a lie, Trump reminds Biden that he lied about being first in his class as opposed to last. (He was near the last, but not the very last)

Biden refuses to answer what he thinks about ending the filibuster. Flat out says "I'm not going to answer the question." Then, flustered by Trump telling him to, "Shut up man." And "keep yapping man."

Biden lambasts Trump on Coronavirus. Trump responds with a litany of what he accomplished and says the only thing he hasn't done well with is getting good news coverage, since the media adore Biden and hate him.

Biden blames Trump and Trump alone for the global Coronavirus pandemic and its resultant economic costs.

Trump asked about when to get the vaccine out and does a poor job explaining that the vaccine will begin to be distributed earlier.

Wallace asks Biden about Kamala Harris telling people not to trust the vaccine scientists. Now Biden's turn to flail.

Trump says Biden wants to shut down the country and that he does not want to do that. That the more we learn, the less we need to completely shut down the country and schools.

Biden routinely wears masks when he doesn't need to, and I'm wondering why he's not wearing one now. It makes no sense.

When Wallace notes that Biden isn't holding rallies, Trump says "that's because no one would show up" or something like that.

Trump mentions divorce, drug addiction, as side effects for rampant shutdowns.

Biden says Trump is of the billionaire class, not the normal person class, implying that he's more in tune with that class.

Biden defends banning children from schools and says that children can't safely attend (this is not true)

Trump says people want their schools open, their states open, their restaurants open. Says he's worried that NY will never recover from their shutdown. Trump says he brought back Big 10 football.

Wallace uses one of his questions to ask about the NYT report on taxes.

Wallace says, "Will you tell us how much you paid in taxes in 2016 and 2017" and Trump says "millions of dollars." This matches with his attorney's on-the-record claim. NYT has not made the documents it claims to hold public, fwiw.

Biden says the reason why he didn't do anything in the last 25 years to fix the tax code he's now complaining about is because "You are the worst president we ever had." (Trump was elected in 2016.)

Democrat media figures repeatedly previewed the debate by saying that Biden was preparing to be "personally attacked" by Trump, so it's kind of interesting how deeply personal the attacks Biden is making against Trump.

Trump brings up Hunter Biden getting 3.5M from a Moscow oligarch and also profiting off of China. Asks what Hunter did to earn this. This is based on official Treasury documents. Biden claims that it's not true and says "My son did nothing wrong" at Burisma.

"It's hard to get any word with this clown. I mean this president" says Biden. He later says, incongruously, that his run for president was about "decency."

Wallace describes racist "critical race theory" as "racial sensitivity training." Wallace asks, "What is radical about racial sensitivity training?" Trump says it teaches hatred for our country. He says he's not going to allow that to happen.

Biden follows Wallace's lead on the racial sensitivity training question.

Wallace now asks if violence in Democrat cities is a particular Democrat problem because it's happening in "Republican" cities, too.

Wallace asks Biden if he ever called the Democrat mayor of Portland or the governor of Oregon and told them to stop the days and months of violence?

Biden lies about Kellyanne Conway's remarks on violence. medium.com/@graham100200/…

Biden just said "Antifa is an idea not an organization"

Virtually no major media outlets reported the $3.5M Hunter Biden received from a Moscow oligarch. Wallace says the American people are done with any discussion of it. Biden agrees.

Biden said this was false but even the Washington Post admitted Hunter was discharged after a positive cocaine test back in 2014.

Wallace and Biden just had a little moment. Then, Biden says the GND would pay for itself, after claiming that he doesn't support the GND.

Wallace never asked Hillary Clinton if she would accept the 2016 election results, though he asked Trump. She still claims the election was stolen from her. I was really hoping he would ask Biden if he would accept the election results if he loses.