With the 2020 U.S. presidential election only five weeks away, the candidates of the two major political parties held their first face-to-face debate.
On Tuesday night (September 29, 2020), during an hour-and-a-half debate at an Ohio university, Republican candidate and incumbent President Trump and Democratic candidate and former Vice President Biden argued over the appointment of Supreme Court justices, health insurance, economic development, race, and other issues. The two men focused on China in their response to the new coronavirus.
Biden accused Trump of not doing his best to send U.S. experts to China in the early days of the outbreak to assess the origin of the virus and the development of the epidemic, and instead praised Xi Jinping for the way he handled the situation. Biden said the Trump administration’s handling of the epidemic has resulted in as many as 200,000 deaths in the United States from neoconiosis.
Trump countered that he encountered Biden’s accusations when he announced a ban on travelers from China entering the United States. He said that if Biden’s approach had been followed, the number of Americans who would have died of neo-coronary pneumonia would not have been 200,000, but millions.
During the debate, Trump repeatedly alleged that Biden’s son, Hunter, had used his father’s vice presidency to extract millions of dollars in benefits from China. Biden countered that this is not true.
Trump and Biden promised a total of three debates before the Nov. 3 presidential election.
At the end of the first debate on Tuesday, the moderator asked both candidates, “Would you urge your supporters to remain calm while the votes are still being counted? Do you promise not to declare yourself elected until the election results are approved by an independent body?
Trump replied, “If it was a fair election, I would 100 percent agree to do it, but not if I saw tens of thousands of votes being rigged.
Biden replied, “I would accept the results of the election, and so would he. Because after all the votes are counted, once the winner is announced, that’s the end of it. If the winner is me, that’s great, but if it’s not me, I’ll support the election results.”
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