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CLEVELAND: These are the highlights of the first 2020 U.S. presidential debate on Tuesday between Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden ahead of the Nov. 3 election:
Supreme Court
Trump asked if Justice Amy Coney Barrett should be nominated for the Supreme Court before the election: “We won the election. Elections have consequences.
“We have the Senate and we have the White House and we have a phenomenal nominee respected by all.
“… I think she (Barrett) will be outstanding. She will be as good as anyone who has served on that court. We won the elections and that is why we had the right to choose her ”.
Biden: “We should wait, we should wait and see what the outcome of this election is.”
Turning to the Affordable Care Act, Biden said: “I am not opposed to justice. He seems like a very good person. But she has written … that she thinks the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional. The president made it clear that he wants to get rid of the Affordable Care Act. He’s been working on it. “
Trump intervened: “When it comes to voice, the American people have already expressed their opinion. … I am not elected for 3 and a half years ”.
Biden replied: “He is elected until the next election. … The elections have already started. “
Interruptions
At one point, as Trump interrupted him, Biden said, “You wanna shut up, man? This is so un-presidential. … Keep barking, man. “
Wallace to Trump: “I think the country would be better served if we allowed both people to speak with less interruption. I’m asking you, sir, to do it. “
Trump, referring to Biden, responded: “And so is he.”
Wallace: “Well, frankly, you’ve been interrupting more.”
Health care
Biden, who Trump told he had adopted the “socialized medicine” proposals of former Democratic presidential rival Bernie Sanders: “Everybody here knows he’s a liar. … You picked the wrong man on the wrong night at the wrong time. “
“… Friends, do you have any idea what this clown is doing? I’ll tell you what, it’s not for anyone who needs medical attention. “
After Trump explained his health care proposal, Biden said, “He doesn’t have a plan for health care. … The fact is, this man has no idea what he’s talking about. “
The coronavirus pandemic
Biden to Trump: “You should get out of your bunker and out of the sand trap and … the golf course and go to the Oval Office and (gather) Democrats and Republicans, and fund what needs to be done now to save. lives.. “
Trump to Biden: “You didn’t think we should have closed our country (to China) because you thought it was terrible.”
“… We have done a great job. But I’m telling you, Joe, you could never have done the work we’ve done. You don’t have it in your blood. “
Trump on Biden’s proposed approach to developing coronavirus vaccines: “People like this would rather make it political than save lives.”
Biden: “Guess what, a lot of people died, and a lot more (are) going to die unless they get a lot smarter and faster.”
Trump responded: “There is nothing smart about you, Joe.
Biden on Trump’s mask policy: “He’s a fool at this.”
Race relations
Biden, speaking of Trump: “This is a president who has used everything like a dog’s whistle to try to generate racist hatred, racist division.”
Trump to Biden, citing Biden’s support for the 1994 crime bill: “You have treated the black community as badly as anyone in this country.”
Biden: “Yes, there is a systemic injustice in this country in education and work and in the application of the law, and the way it is applied.”
Law enforcement and urban disturbances
Trump: “The top 10 cities and almost the top 40 cities are run by Democrats in many cases, radical left, and they have you wrapped around their fingers, Joe, to a point where you don’t want to say anything. about law and order. And I will tell you what the people of this country want and demand law and order, and you are afraid to say it. “
Biden said Trump had done nothing to quell the protests. “Just pour gasoline on the fire.”
In response to Trump’s attacks on the suburbs, Biden said: “I would not recognize a suburb unless it took a wrong turn. I know the suburbs. “
Trump to Biden: “Name one law enforcement group that has come out and supported you. One. Think. We have time.”
Biden: “Under this president, we have become weaker, sicker, more divided and more violent.”
White supremacists
Wallace: “Are you willing tonight to condemn the white supremacists and militia groups and say that they should stand down and not increase the violence or the number of these cities as we saw in Kenosha and as we have seen in Portland? “
Trump: “I would say that almost everything I see is from the left, not from the right. … I am willing to do anything. I want to see peace. “
Wallace: “Then do it sir.”
Biden: “Do it, do it. Say it.”
Trump: “You want to call them. What do you want to call them? Give me a name. “
Biden, referring to a right-wing group: “Proud Boys”
Trump: “Proud guys: walk away and wait.”
Climate change and environment
Trump: “I think we have to do everything we can to have clean air, clean water and do everything we can to do good.”
Biden: “The first thing I will do, I will rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement.”
Pressed by Wallace to explain the spending needed to fund the Green New Deal, Biden said: “The fact is, it’s going to create millions of high-paying jobs.”
Trump on Biden’s plan: “So why didn’t you do it for 47 years?”
Election integrity
Biden encouraged vote-by-mail by saying that Trump does too. “He sits behind the Resolute Desk (in the White House) and sends his ballot to Florida.”
Biden: “He can’t help but determine the outcome of that election. … If I win, that will be accepted. If I lose, that will be accepted.
“If we get the votes, he will go. She cannot remain in power. “
Trump: “We may not know for months” who won.
Trump: “Don’t talk to me about a free transition. This will be a fraud like you have never seen. This is not going to end well. “
Biden: “You will determine the outcome of this election. Vote, vote, vote. If you can vote early in your state, vote early. If you can vote in person, vote in person, in whatever way is best for you. Because it cannot prevent you from determining the outcome of this election. “
When asked if he would urge his supporters to remain calm and promise not to declare victory until the election is certified, Trump said: “I urge my supporters to go to the polls and watch very carefully.”
Trump: “If I see tens of thousands of ballots being tampered with, I can’t accept it.
Biden: “The fact is, I’ll accept it and so will he. You know why? Because once the winner is declared after all the ballots have been counted, all the votes are counted. That will be the end, that will be the end. “
