Trump, Biden meet in bitter first debate
Democratic Presidential candidate and former US Vice President Joe Biden and US President Donald Trump take part in the first presidential debate at Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 29, 2020.
And Trump, facing the threat of being made a one-term president, pushed a conspiracy theory suggesting his challenger needs performance enhancing drugs and might wear an earpiece to get answers during the debate.Biden, with an impressive lead both in national and swing state polls, was looking to zoom in on public dissatisfaction with Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 200,000 Americans.
Trump — who has broken longtime presidential transparency by refusing to publish his tax returns — reportedly used loopholes to pay just $750 in federal tax during the first year of his presidency. Hours before the debate, Biden published his own tax returns.Trump, meanwhile, leaned in on his lurid narrative that the Democratic challenger is senile and needs testing for drugs.
Underneath was a photo of standard headphones and a tub of Jeni’s icecream — “salted peanut butter with chocolate flecks.”On landing in Cleveland ahead of the debate, a senior official on Air Force One told reporters that Trump, 74, is “ready to go.” “He doesn’t have to hold back,” Giuliani was quoted as saying by Politico. “I think Biden is a nasty enough guy that you don’t have to worry about, you know, being too careful with him.”
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