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The spirits were much more controlled in the second debate in Nashville, in which the insults flew but neither of the candidates could deliver a mortal blow.
The couple had their microphones turned off in the final presidential debate on Thursday, October 22 to prevent them from talking to each other. The Presidential Debate Commission (CPD) imposed two minutes of uninterrupted speaking time for each candidate per topic after the first debate between rivals turned into a sham.
Read more: Who won the second debate?
Presidential debates are a political version of gladiatorial combat and, in the past, have been turned into elections.
Four years ago, polls showed he was reasonably close between Trump and Hillary Clinton with neither of them delivering a coup de grace.
Meanwhile, Trump and Biden’s running mates, Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris, clashed in their own vice-presidential debate on Wednesday, October 7, with the approach dominated by the Trump administration’s Covid-19 response.
Read more: Analysis of the vice-presidential debate
What happened in the town halls?
After the second presidential debate was canceled, the two candidates appeared in separate town halls live that were broadcast at the same time.
Trump dominated the headlines after he refused to expose the QAnon conspiracy theory, which falsely claims that the US government is controlled by a “deep state” clique of anti-Trump Satanist pedophiles. He said, “So, I don’t know anything about QAnon. I know very little. What I hear about it, they are very much against pedophilia. I agree with that.”
The president was questioned about his decision to retweet a false conspiracy theory, from a Twitter account not linked to QA, suggesting that Navy Seals killed a double body of Osama bin Laden, and that the Obama administration covered it up. Trump said he was simply “spreading it” and that “people can decide for themselves.”
Trump also denied that his national security adviser told him in the Oval Office in January that the coronavirus would be the biggest threat to national security of his presidency.
In Philadelphia, Biden said: “We are in a situation where we have more than 210,000 dead and what is he doing? Nothing. He is not wearing masks yet.”
Biden donned the mask when leaving the stage to be closer to the interrogators.
