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In split-screen town halls, Trump and Biden squabble over coronavirus response

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By Steve Holland and Michael Martina

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There was ONE question from voters in the first 30 mins of the 1 hour event.

Such an easily disprovable claim.

Not sure what you're talking about, I am at 27 minutes and there are already three questions from voters.

Thank you jaybeeb

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yawn

I'd care more about the election if it was popular vote and not the electoral college system. NY is a guaranteed win for democrats, so I don't see my vote mattering either way.

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Well, kurumazaka, it appears the United States as a federal constitutional republic, has succumbed to a politically dysfunctional, on golden pond, Granddaddy duo.

Grumpy, and irritatingly irrational.

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Whatever the electorate judgement of President Trump performance in office, is Joe Biden a serious alternative?

I really don't think Joe Biden is. Kamala Harris can at least can string an sentence together.

Joe Biden retired, and the man deserves a rest.

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This is how you define a "leader"? very infantile.

Or maybe it just says a sad lot about how pathetic Donald is? Rather ironic for a Trump fan to call others infantile.

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The re-election is always a referendum on the incumbent. Trump is a miserable failure. I would vote for a head of shredded lettuce over Trump.

Joe is capable of empathy.

He listens to experts.

During his term, the economy grew, we were liked by our allies and facts meant something.

He will put the right people in the right positions and then let them do their job instead of demanding they do his personal bidding.

In other words, for all his faults and slips, he is the anti-trump. He’s not a narcissistic sociopath and that’s why I am voting for him.

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Savannah was the star! The best moderator I've ever seen for dealing with the deceitful Don. She braked and brought screeching to a halt Trump's question-dodging motormouth spewing out lies and irrelevant nonsense and spanked him good with her fact and reality checks, a feat that few of Trump's obsequious interlocutors have been able to emulate.

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https://youtu.be/vCSF3reVr10

Quid pro joe. He did what the political left wrongly accused President Trump.

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We’ll still need to wait till 2021 to get rid of the last racist president.

And I think he will be the last racist one, the GOP will be in tatters for years.

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so in other words, no you cant speak about Biden without deflecting to Trump.

Just as the world is falling out under Trump as his chickens come home to roost,

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Despite my disagreements with him, I think that kurumazaka is a good poster.

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Almost nothing good happened in 2020, the only positive I can see is that we'll remove the last racist President on the US.

Bird of Prey was released in cinemas and later on home media.

I don't think Trump will be our last racist President.

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Excuse me: *not used

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No, just made rental policies that did

Living in NY at that time as violent as it was and as much as crime, the mafia, the corrupt police and Frank Lucas was controlling the streets, don’t blame Trump

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Biggest news of the night = Trump fails to condemn QAnon...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/10/15/town-hall-trump-refuses-condemn-conspiracy-group-qanon/3672293001/

You can't get much nuttier than QAnon...I mean really, JFK Jr isn't dead but is blogging in secret from a basement in DC? A group the FBI has designated a domestic terror threat?

https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-trump-qanon-conspiracy-theory-20200820-m6oeff7wojf77dyeupvl7u6xbu-story.html

Just think about that - Trump can't condemn a group his own FBI says are domestic terrorists...

It's just more evidence Trump knows he's lost and is trying to keep as many of his core base as he can so he can limit his humiliation...

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Almost nothing good happened in 2020

Gallup's Sept. 14-28 poll found that 56% of U.S. registered voters believe they are better off now under President Trump compared to four years ago.

Hmmmm...looks positive to me.

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Trump didn’t write a crime bill that disproportionately targeted blacks

No, just made rental policies that did.

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Yes, why are you voting for Joe Biden?

I’m not American.

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Reuters/Ipsos polls show Biden has a significant national lead, although his advantage in battleground states is less pronounced.

Simply change the name biden to clinton and we read the exact same dribble, rubbish, hype and lies on this very website 4 years ago.

You believe the media? Fools !

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I can talk positive things about Trump Town Hall all day, how many do you want?

Telling that after this town hall Trump backers once again canNOT find anything positive to say about him, default instead to 'but Biden' and 'but the media'.

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Yes, why are you voting for Joe Biden? (without mentioning the word "Trump" or saying anything about a person, or their actions, who is obviously him).

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Almost nothing good happened in 2020, the only positive I can see is that we'll remove the last racist President on the US.

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Democrats hope people continue to support their racist policies and as most of the minority communities will, nothing will change especially now after they burned down their own cities, none of these giant stores are coming back, too risky for them. These cities in these blue states will slowly look like Detroit, but yeah, Biden would do something about it. Lol, sure....

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https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1316900018566156293

This is hilarious. "You're not some crazy uncle, you are President of the United States "

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"Biden says crime bill was a 'mistake' during ABC town hall"

ummm Joe, this is something you DID write.

As compared to all the other things you plagiarized.

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When Trump inherited his wealth, he worked with people that were born in the 1890’s.

But he didn’t write laws or passed legislation, Trump didn’t write a crime bill that disproportionately targeted blacks, put more black men in prison that any other bill written by congress. Trump didn’t plagiarized from others, in speeches snd quotes, so what’s your point?

Trump has always been all over the place,

As most businessmen are.

and lied so many times about his life story and accomplishments.

Which many fact checkers got caught and had to retract their stories.

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I didn't watch Trump, but I'd like to know if he gave an update on his sea to shining sea wall and if he's still getting Mexico to pay for it.

And did Trump provide an update on his better-than-Obamacare-health care plan which he said he had ready a few months back.

Both the above were two big campaign promises in 2016.

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Savannah Guthrie'Its not like you're someone's crazy uncle'.

Mary Trump 'Hey!!!!

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What was even more hilarious is that trump didn't deny owing $ 400 million, but wanted us to believe that a man who paid $750 in income tax is worth much much more than what he owes.

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The only legitimately challenging question of the Biden Town Hall.

Cedric with some real talk for Joe Biden!

"Besides 'you ain't Black,' what do you have to say to young Black voters who see voting for you as further participation in a system that continually fails to protect them?"

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Who is this guy, really?

Dunno, is it the guy who's told over 20 thousand lies the last 4 years? Who has laughed and joked and spread misinformation (and the virus, literally) whilst 215 thousand people lost their lives?

He should be done for crimes against humanity in the International Court of Justice.

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One thing trump still has going for him is the racists, they will vote for him sure.

A majority of Americans will be disgusted, again, with his juvenile performance today.

Watch out for 3 more weeks of incessant lies from trump and his rapidly diminishing coterie.

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Our President has led the way on the virus - and I know 210K Americans who agree....

Think it's around 215k now?

Who knows where the US will be with 4 more years of the dear leader?

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The president declined to denounce QAnon, the false conspiracy theory that Democrats are part of a global pedophile ring

This is a ‘peanut’ compared to the steaming heap of conspiracy trash Trump has collected over the years.

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Well, as a Trump supporter, I think our President did a great job tonight....he was incomprehensible, unhinged, and manic - just the way we like him...

He told the truth about that fake virus - that it was "disappearing" - just look at Europe and Middle America...

https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-netherlands-italy-france-czech-republic-987993953a51f39a861c0f481c0e38f8

And I respect him as a man - just look at all he did to protect his wife and son from the virus...

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/14/politics/melania-trump-barron-covid/index.html

Our President has led the way on the virus - and I know 210K Americans who agree....

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When Trump inherited his wealth, he worked with people that were born in the 1890’s. Trump has always been all over the place, and lied so many times about his life story and accomplishments.

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Will this performance help Trump narrow the gap in battleground states?

No one knows, we don’t even know if the polls are accurate since they do sample more Democrats than Republicans overall.

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Will this performance help Trump narrow the gap in battleground states?

That's really the only question to ask with so little time left.

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because those have been talked about since 2015 and are old news.

Why would they be discussed yet again? these emails are new, thus are "news".

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But no time at all to talk about allegations that "the Big Guy" received a cut of Chinese and Ukrainian money. Didnt even come up. must have been due to "time constraints".

You know what else didn't come up? Jared and Ivanka. Trump International Hotel in Washington D.C. and the emoluments clause.

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See the arrogant dictator sitting with no protection. His ugly name above his head like an aura. He makes me sick.

BusbyToday  11:59 am JST

The last act of a desperate man....

Trump and his supporters know he is losing - and will lose - at this point, it's all about stemming the degree of humiliation...

The damage and shame Trump has brought to America is incalcuable. He has brought the U.S.A. to rock bottom and even Joe Biden won't be able to remedy and fix it all.

But he could be a start of a long healing process. We can hope.

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I dont know, they made time for not one, but two, softball LGBTQ questions- including about an 8 year old transgender kid.

But no time at all to talk about allegations that "the Big Guy" received a cut of Chinese and Ukrainian money. Didnt even come up. must have been due to "time constraints".

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Trump won his debate against moderator Savannah Guthrie.

There was ONE question from voters in the first 30 mins of the 1 hour event.

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"Thousands of them are dumped in dumpsters and when you see ballots with the name Trump -- military ballots, from our great military, and they're dumped in garbage cans,"

This claim is so preposterous it must be true!

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Trump also dodged questions about a New York Times investigation of two decades of his tax returns, which he has refused to release publicly despite decades of precedent for presidential candidates.

And promised to do so on numerous occasions. Promises made promises meaningless.

MAGA again? Taking a while isn’t it?

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Fox News is already playing the victim card for Trump. Soon his fans will be here to whine and complain, too.

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More words of wisdom from Honest Don.

On why he retweeted a QAnon conspiracy theory suggesting Bin Laden is still alive:

That was a retweet. That was an opinion of somebody, and that was a retweet. I'll put it out there. People can decide for themselves. I don't take a position.

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He did not answer questions about the last time he tested negative before contracting the virus, saying he did not recall precisely.

Uh-huh.

declined to denounce QAnon, . . . saying he knew nothing about the movement.

Uh-huh.

$400 million . . , was a "peanut" compared with his worth.

Uh-huh.

Most. Transparent. President. Ever.

Keep draining le swamp, Messr. Trump.

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