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Biden responds after Trump refuses to participate in virtual debate

Earlier, the Committee on Presidential Debates announced that their second showdown between the candidates would have to take place remotely given Trump’s positive diagnosis.

The president was giving an interview to María Bartiromo on Fox Business shortly after and he told her that he would not “waste time” with that format and said it was “unacceptable” and “ridiculous” that he had to do it. ” sit in front of a computer ”.

Subsequently, his campaign announced that he would organize a demonstration.

Biden responded to Trump’s claims while speaking to reporters in Delaware.

“We don’t know what the president is going to do, he changes his mind every second, so if I were to comment on that now it would be irresponsible,” Biden said. “I will follow the recommendations of the commission.”

Here’s John T Bennett on the president’s refusal.

Overwhelming Europe backs Biden’s presidency

Kamala Harris last night offered this frank assessment of America’s fall from grace on the world stage under Trump …

… Which is confirmed this morning by the following YouGov poll asking the European nation who they want to win next month’s elections.

Brutal reading for The Donald.

‘Fracking is bad, actually’

The aforementioned AOC, which played a key role in shaping the Democrats’ ambitious Green New Deal proposal, disagreed with everything Kamala Harris had to say last night, ignoring her swift rejection of the ban on the fracking.

Harris did so with the belief that energy jobs are a top electoral issue in battlefield states like Pennsylvania, but Ocasio-Cortez is thinking about the long-term implications of an undeniably harmful natural gas extraction practice. For the enviroment.

Gino Spocchia has this report.

Harris clapback to Pence interruptions appears on T-shirts in minutes

Rapid merchandise turnaround is becoming a feature of this election campaign, with candidate slogans and forecasts plastered on a shirt or bumper sticker faster than you can say “malarkey.”

Richard Hall has this in the latest example of tomorrow’s kitsch.

The Squad accuses Pence of misogyny over Harris interruptions

Progressive Democrats Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar were among the millions of Americans who watched and denounced the vice president for his attempts to interrupt Harris last night, with the latter applauding the candidate for standing firm and tweeting: “Patriarchy / misogyny is taking a beating tonight. “

Richard Hall has more on this.

The most important quotes from the vice presidential debate

The Harris-Pence meeting sparked some interesting reactions, with SE Cupp saying on CNN that the vice president gave him goose bumps, Rick Santorum proclaiming that he had presented “the best possible case for Covid” (er …) and the former candidate Pete Buttigieg daring to go on Fox to question why a devout Christian like Pence would take in a man like Trump who pays porn stars in his spare time.

In the best lines of the debate itself, here’s Griffin Connolly.

The real star of the vice-presidential debate last night was neither Harris nor Pence, but this little one, who landed in the vice president’s white snow in the service of metaphor, his kind being a biblical symbol of evil.

The bug is reportedly already in advanced conversations with Showtime about a reality series and has its own Twitter account:

Joe Biden wasted little time teasing his cameo …

… while many remembered Barack Obama’s deft manner with a punch.

Here’s Graeme Massie on an absolute giveaway to Camp Biden.

Pence won’t say if Trump will peacefully accept electoral defeat

Here’s Andrew Naughtie on one of the night’s most troubling veep responses.

Democrat attacks White House for ‘biggest failure in our country’s history’

Harris certainly scored his biggest win of the night after the Trump administration over the coronavirus pandemic.

“The American people have witnessed the greatest failure of any presidential administration in the history of our country … This administration has lost its right to reelection,” he said.

Pence responded to that by throwing the blame for the pandemic squarely on China’s doorstep and accused it of “playing politics with people’s health” by saying that he would not accept a Trump-backed vaccine (quite rich from him and this administration given the death of the United States). toll, case numbers and their mixed messaging in masks).

Richard Hall has this one.

Biden’s running mate holds Pence accountable for climate crisis

Kamala Harris seemed to particularly enjoy confronting the vice president on the climate change issue.

Pence declined to say that climate change poses an existential threat to humanity, repeating his boss’s claim that forest management was “front and center” of the historic wildfires seen this summer in the American West. Where the California state of Harris was the hardest hit, in decline blaming global warming.

“The climate is changing but the issue is what is the cause and what do we do about it,” said the vice president weakly.

He tried to pivot to attack the Biden-Harris ticket for threatening jobs by banning hydraulic fracturing, but Harris knocked him down with ease.

Here’s how they both summed up their arguments …

… and here’s Louise Boyle’s report.