Published 11:01 IST, September 30th 2020

'Shut-up' to 'Clown' & 'Racist' to 'Worst President': 5 knockout Trump-Biden debate jibes

The first Presidential debate between the United States President Donald Trump and Democratic Presidential hopeful Former VP Joe Biden took place on Tuesday

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first presidential debate between United States President Donald Trump and Democratic Presidential hopeful Former VP Joe Biden took place on Tuesday, September 29 at Cleveland, Ohio.  faceoff between opponents quickly devolved into chaos with ruthless rounds of personal attacks, with each interrupting or, though moderator Chris Wallace said Trump was more disruptive.

topics Wallace discussed with candidates are Trump and Biden's records, Supreme Court, COVID-19, ecomy, violence in US cities, race and integrity of election.

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two candidates tred barbs about coronavirus response, ecomy, health care, among or topics while making in references to each’s job performance and even dragging each or's families into fight during debate.

Here is how Debate unfolded 

Debate moderator Chris Wallace explained debate’s ground rules and introduced  candidates, following which he put forth  first questions to both candidates about Supreme Court minee Amy Coney Barrett. Wallace asked 'Why are you right and or wrong regarding her mination and where do you think a Justice Barrett would take court?'

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Responding to question Trump said he’s President and he has authority to fill a vacancy on Supreme Court. Biden, meanwhile, brought Democrats’ strategy to st regarding Barrett’s mination. Biden said to focus on Affordable Care Act and me  argument that it will be in peril under a conservative court.

Just minutes after debate commenced Trump attempted to cut off debate’s moderator, to which Wallace said “I am moderator of this debate and I would like to ask my question.” Each candidate was allowed to speak for 2 minutes to answer moderator's question.

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Here are 5 unmissable jibes from first debate

1.  Trump, Biden feud over health care

Attacking Trump over health care policies, Biden said "Trump has plan for health care. He sends out wishful thinking. He has executive orders that have power. He hasn’t lowered drug costs for anybody.” ding furr he said fact is this man doesn’t kw what he’s talking about. Within 20 minutes of debate, when Trump interrupted Biden while responding, latter asked former to 'shut up'. “Will you shut up man?", Biden said to Trump.

Trump responded by saying “If we would have listened to you country would have been left wide open. Millions of people would have died t 200 thousand. One is too many.” Continuing furr he said 'we are weeks away from a vaccine. We are doing rapeutics. Alrey fewer people are dying when y get sick. Far fewer people are dying. We’ve done a great job.'

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2. COVID and ecomy- “You’re worst President country has ever h"

Trump attacked Biden for wanting to shut down country to deal with pandemic and said states should reopen. “People kw what to do, y can social distance y can wear masks y can do whatever y want. We have got to open se states,” Trump said. “This guy will shut down whole country,” Trump said.

“He’s going to be first President of United States to leave office having fewer jobs than when he first got elected,” Biden said. “You can’t fix ecomy until you fix COVID crisis,” Biden said.

As Trump interrupted, Biden shot back: “You’re worst President country has ever h.”

3. Fight over racial sensitivity training

Moderator  Wallace questioned why President Trump’s ministration h ended racial sensitivity training, and wher he believed re was systemic racism. Trump replied by saying that he ended training because it was 'racist' and that it was teaching people to hate our country and that “I’m t going to let that happen.”

To which Biden said of Trump 'He’s racist' and said re is racial insensitivity, people have to be me aware what or people feel like, what insults m.

4. Trump, Biden drag ir families into debate fight

Trump brought up Biden’s son Hunter, whose business dealings in China and Ukraine have been focus of Republican criticism. Trump mentioned a finding from a recent Senate Republican investigation saying that mayor of Moscow gave Hunter Biden $3.5m. “What did he do to deserve it,” Trump asked Biden? “Totally discredited,” Biden said. “My son did thing wrong.”

Biden n shot back saying if Trump wanted to drag family into this debate, y could talk about Trumps “all night.”

Trump responded saying what he’s said throughout his Presidency: that he and his family have “lost a fortune” with ir public service.

5. Law enforcement and racism

Trump accused Biden of t supporting law enforcement. “If he ever got to run this country and y ran it way he would want to run it. Our suburbs would be gone,” Trump said, ting that law enforcement unions have been endorsing him. Biden pushed backed accusing Trump of racism. “I was raised in suburbs. This is t 1950s. All se dog whistles and racism don’t work anymore. suburbs are by and large integrated,” Biden said.

Trump wants to “rile everybody up. He doesn’t want to calm things down. I’m saying let’s get everybody toger, figure out how to deal with this. What he’s doing, he just pours gasoline on fire constantly at every single solitary time,” Biden said.

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