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Trump, Biden fight over the raging virus, climate and race

Election 2020 Debate
Posted at 9:56 AM, Oct 23, 2020
and last updated 2020-10-23 10:56:59-04

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden fought over how to tame the raging coronavirus in the final 2020 debate.

They largely shelved the rancor that overshadowed their previous face-off in favor of a more substantive exchange that highlighted their vastly different approaches to solving the major domestic and foreign policy challenges facing the nation.

Trump sought to portray himself Thursday as the same outsider he first pitched to voters four years ago, arguing anew that he wasn’t a politician. Biden argued that Trump was an incompetent leader of a country facing multiple crises and tried to connect what he saw as the Republican president’s failures to the everyday lives of Americans.