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After a night that often turned into interruptions, the candidates return to the campaign.
- Donald Trump and Joe Biden are back on the campaign trail Wednesday after a debate that often felt like a chaotic verbal fight.
- Trump will hold a rally in Minnesota, a state he hopes to convert in the wake of racial justice protests there.
- Biden and Kamala Harris left on a train trip through Pennsylvania and Ohio.
- Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, and Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, will campaign in New Hampshire and Florida, respectively, with 34 days until November 3.
Hello and welcome to Al Jazeera’s continued coverage of the US elections. This is Joseph Stepansky.
Here are the latest updates:
Wednesday September 30:
10:00 ET – Biden’s campaign raises its highest hourly sum when the first debate ends
Biden’s campaign broke its one-hour fundraising record when the Democrat’s debate with President Donald Trump concluded Tuesday with $ 3.8 million, a campaign official said.
Biden’s deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield announced the fundraiser online in a phone call with reporters.
09:30 ET – Biden’s ‘inshallah’ during the US debate called ‘historic’ on Twitter
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden cast doubt on Tuesday night’s debate on whether President Donald Trump would ever release his tax returns.
“You’ll see,” Trump said repeatedly as moderator Chris Wallace pressured him to commit to a firm schedule. Biden replied, “When? Inshallah?
While the phrase in Arabic translates to “God willing,” it also has colloquial connotations of ambiguous commitment.
Social media users were quick to react with humor to the comment. Some referred to it as a “historic moment in America.” Others expressed surprise by pointing out that “anything is possible in 2020,” a year marked by unprecedented events.
Read more here.
If my parents had told me when I was little that a major presidential candidate would one day say the words “inshallah” in a nationally televised debate, I would have assumed they were crazy. But everything is possible in 2020.
– Shadi Hamid (@shadihamid) September 30, 2020
9:00 ET – Trump and Biden fight in ‘ugly’ first US election debate.
President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden engaged in a heated and sometimes ugly exchange of words in the first presidential debate of the US elections.
Trump accused Biden of being a “leftist” and promoting socialism. Biden openly called Trump a racist and told him to “shut up” as Trump repeatedly tried to goad Biden with interruptions.
The debate did little to illuminate the political options Americans face in the election and likely did not change the dynamics of a race in which incumbent Trump is fighting behind.
Read more here.
Trump and Biden met in the first presidential debate on Tuesday [File: Morry Gash/Reuters]
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Read all the updates from Tuesday (September 29) here.
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