US President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden clashed Tuesday evening during a political showdown that repeatedly broke down into fiery exchanges and angry interruptions.<\/p>\n
90-minute non-stop debate repeatedly breaks down as candidates interrupt each other, Trump draws rebuke from moderator.<\/p>\n
The clashes prompted moderator Chris Wallace to castigate Trump, whom he said interrupted Biden far more frequently during the night’s debate than the vice president did the incumbent.<\/p>\n
“Mr. President, please stop,\u201d Wallace said during one of dozens of times the president interrupted Biden. “The country would be better served if we allowed both people to speak with fewer interruptions. I am appealing to you, sir, to do that.”<\/p>\n
Biden also rebuked Trump, whom he said is “the worst president America has ever had,” telling Trump “will you just shush for a minute” during one of several times the president attempted to speak over him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWill you shut up, man?\u201d Biden snapped after the president spoke over him during a different debate segment.<\/p>\n
The debate covered a slew of topics, including race, the candidates’ records, the coronavirus pandemic, violence in American cities, election integrity and climate change.<\/p>\n
During the back-and-forth, Trump was repeatedly forced to defend his record.<\/p>\n
Asked by Wallace to condemn white supremacists and militia groups, the president did not, instead telling the Proud Boys neo-fascist organization to “stand back and stand by.” It is unclear what the president meant when he told the far-right hate group to “stand by.”<\/p>\n
“But I’ll tell you what, somebody’s got to do something about Antifa and the left, because this is not a right-wing problem,” he said, referring to the leftist anti-fascist movement while refusing to condemn extremists that largely support him.<\/p>\n
Trump has faced repeated criticism for his handling of white supremacy during his administration, particularly after a mass gathering in Charlottesville, Virginia that attracted hundreds of neo-Nazis and white nationalists.<\/p>\n
One counter-protester died during the 2017 Unite the Right rally, and shortly after, Trump said there “were very fine people, on both sides.”<\/p>\n
Biden called the president a “racist” who employs “everything as a dog whistle to try to generate racist hatred, racist division.” In a political context, dog whistle is used to refer to language that suggests a subtle message to a subset of its audience.<\/p>\n
“This is not 1950. All these dog whistles on racism don\u2019t work anymore. Suburbs are by and large integrated,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n
Trump and Biden will again take to the debate stage Oct. 15 and Oct. 22 in the final two presidential debates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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