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The second presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden was supposed to take place last night, but was canceled because Trump refused to participate in a virtual debate.
Instead, the two candidates participated in separately televised municipal events on competing television networks at the same time.
Donald Trump appeared on NBC.
She was faced with tough questions from moderator Savannah Guthrie and we learned much more than we would have learned from a traditional discussion.
The president was asked for details of his last negative Covid-19 test before his diagnosis.
He said he wasn’t sure if he had been tested on the day of the last presidential debate.
“Possibly I did, possibly I didn’t,” Trump said, adding that they do “test all the time.”
The president’s doctors have not confirmed whether he suffered lung damage or had pneumonia as a result of the coronavirus. Last night, the patient offered a bit more detail.
“They said the lungs are maybe a little different, a little infected,” Trump said.
The president of the United States was more decisive when asked to condemn white supremacists, saying that he denounces them.
However, he would not condemn the controversial conspiracy theory group Q-Anon.
“I don’t know anything about it, I know they are very against pedophilia, they fight it very hard,” Trump said.
When asked about a controversial retweet, Donald Trump said he was just posting it and letting people decide for themselves.
“I don’t get it. You’re the president. You’re not, like, someone’s crazy uncle who can just retweet anything!” Savannah Guthrie replied.
Trump once again cast doubt on the security of mail-in ballots and was asked if he would commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the election.
“Yes, I will. But I want it to be an honest choice, just like everyone else,” he said.
In his tax returns, the president accused the New York Times of illegally obtaining his financial records and defended his debts of $ 400 million.
He said he did not have enough leverage and that the figure was a small percentage of his net worth, describing the amount as “a peanut.”
At ABC, Joe Biden was participating in a competitive town hall event.
He was asked if he would “fill the Supreme Court” if he won the elections, would he add additional judges to change the ideological structure of the courts.
It’s a controversial topic that both Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris have refused to give direct answers to.
“I have not been a fan of packing on the court. I am not a fan,” Biden said at last night’s town hall event.
But he was pressed by ABC moderator George Stephanopoulos if he would be open to expanding the court if the US Senate confirms Donald Trump’s nominee.
“I’m open to considering what happens from then on,” he said.
The impromptu town hall events lacked a face-to-face showdown, but may have been a blessing in disguise with both candidates undergoing forensic questioning rather than the interruptions and insults that dominated the first debate.
But normal service will resume next week when the final presidential debate takes place in Nashville.
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