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Election 2020: The Final Debate

Election 2020 | Graphic created by Dylan Collison | The Wright State Guardian


On Thursday, Oct. 23 President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden faced off in the final presidential debate. The debate featured six topics each lasting fifteen minutes. 

The debate was held at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. and was moderated by Kristen Welker. 

Coronavirus

President Trump ensured that there would be a vaccine for the coronavirus distributed to the public by January. This contradicts what Biden and most experts on the subject have said, predicting a vaccine no earlier than late spring 2021.

Biden did not rule out the potential of future lockdowns but said he prefers safe reopening with crowd control and will call upon state governors to implement mask mandates.

“We can’t close our nation, or you won’t have a country,” Trump said. 

“Anyone responsible for 220,000 American deaths should not be president,” Biden said in response. 

Trump said that the virus will go away and that the American people are tired of living with it. Biden defended that Americans are not learning to live with it. They are “learning to die with it,” according to Biden. 

National security

Following a breaking story that confirmed both Russia and Iran are already interfering in the 2020 election, Welker asked both candidates how their administration will respond to foreign powers meddling in domestic affairs.

Biden said that any country that interferes in U.S. affairs “will pay a price.” He pointed out the recent news that Trump has a Chinese bank out and, when added with the fact that he still refuses to release his tax returns, believes that this adds up to obvious corruption.

Trump discussed his excellent relationships with both Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin and deflected questions of his tax returns to conspiracies of Biden receiving money from Russia and Ukraine.

American families

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was a primary concern during the debate. With the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett imminent, many are concerned over the Supreme Court striking down the ACA.

Trump bragged about eliminating the personal mandate portion of the ACA, but recognized that no matter how the Republicans reworked it the ACA is “no good.” 

Biden reminded viewers that he supports both private insurance and a public option unlike some of his Democratic colleagues. 

Immigration

Noting the recent news that over 500 children are unable to be reunited with their parents after being separated at the southern border, both Welker and Biden pressed Trump to own up to his strict immigration policies. Trump instead accused the Obama administration of building the notorious cages at the border.

Biden responded that the Obama administration did make mistakes on immigration but that what the Trump administration has done “violates every notion of who we are as a nation,” according to Biden. 

 Race issues

Biden said that “there is institutional racism in this country” and that minorities need policies in place to ensure both economic and social freedom. He also spoke of criminal justice reform, where non-violent drug offenders should go to rehabilitation centers rather than jails.

Trump assured that he is “the least racist person in the room” and that he “did more than any president ever for black Americans.”

Climate change

Trump blasted how unfair the Paris Accords were to American businesses.

Biden vowed to rejoin the Paris Accords and discussed how the environmental plan will create millions of new green jobs. According to Biden “climate change is an existential threat; we have a moral obligation to fix it.”

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