"My party is me ... I am the Democratic party right now" -- Biden
Trump interrupts ... "Donald, will you just be quiet for a minute," Biden says
Trump keeps interrupting ... Chris Wallace can't even finish asking his health care question
Biden won't answer if he wants to pack the court or end the filibuster. He says people need to vote.
"Are you gonna pack the court?" Trump asks. "He doesn't want to answer the question."
"Will you shut up, man," Biden says.
Biden to Trump on COVID:
"You should get out of your bunker and get out of the sand trap and your golf course and go in the Oval Office and bring together the Democrats and Republicans and fund what needs to be done to save lives"
Trump says Biden would not have closed the country for another two months after he did.
"I'll tell you Joe. You could have never done the job that we did. You don't have it in your blood."
"I know how to do the job. I know how to get the job done" Biden says
Biden asks audience how many families have an empty chair at the dinner table today because of covid.
"You would have lost far more people," Trump interjects.
Trump to Biden: "Did you use the word 'smart'? ... Don't ever use the word smart with me because you know what, there's nothing smart about you Joe."
Trump defends having campaign rallies during pandemic: "So far we have had no problem whatsoever"
Biden calls Trump "totally irresponsible" and a "fool"
Trump says New York City is a "ghost town" and I'm not sure it will ever recover"
"I'm the one who brought back football," he says.
"You're the worst president America has ever had," Biden says
"In 47 months, I've done more than you've done in 47 years, Joe" Trump replies
"We handed him a booming economy. He blew it!" -- Biden says of Trump
"Proud Boys, stand back and stand by," Trump says
What does that mean
"Under this president, we've become weaker, sicker, poorer, more divided and more violent" -- @JoeBiden Biden
"He's Putin's puppy" -- Biden says of Trump.
No puppy, no puppy. You're the puppy!
Missed opportunity
Trump says "to an extent" he DOES believe that greenhouse gases contribute to global warming of the planet.
"But we have to do better management of our forests"
"This is going to be a fraud like you've never seen," Trump says of mail-in ballots.
He says the results of election might not be known "for months"
"Take a look at Carolyn Maloney's race. Look at Carolyn Maloney" -- Trump
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One House Dem said the WH needs to do a better job harnessing "the levers of communication of the presidency, which they haven’t effectively utilized up to this point."
POTUS "needs to fully utilize the bully pulpit, the power of the presidency, to get the message across to the American people what’s really at stake here," the House Dem told @NBCNews.
"As of this time, the American ppl haven’t been fully informed what is truly at stake"
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“It was important to have somebody in that ranking position who not only had the expertise ... but also who could push back at xenophobic rhetoric,” @RepJudyChu told me.
“This committee could devolve into that ... when there is that xenophobic rhetoric, AAPIs pay the price.”
.@SpeakerMcCarthy says embattled Rep. Santos should not get seated on top committees
Both Republicans and Democrats are warning that Santos could be a national security risk if he's places on key committees that deal with sensitive information.
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Source close to SCHIFF calls it an "incredible mistake" for Porter to announce now
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