Mr Trump, who badgered Mr Biden with increasing aggression over the course of the debate, appeared determined to cast his opponent as a career politician who was, as he jabbed toward the end of the debate,"all talk and no action".
Trailing in a series of crucial swing states, and with 48 million Americans having already voted, the president was under more pressure. Significantly, Mr Biden made no serious error of the sort that could haunt him in the final days of a race in which he's leading. "I've been congratulated by the heads of many countries on what we've been able to do," Mr Trump said, without offering any specifics.
"Anyone who's responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president of the United States of America," Mr Biden said, adding:"I will end this. I will make sure we have a plan." When Mr Biden said Rudy Giuliani, Mr Trump's lawyer, was being"used as a Russian pawn", the president gaped and jarred his head to the right. And when Mr Trump insisted, not for the first time, that he would release his tax returns after an IRS audit, Mr Biden let out a wide, here-we-go-again grin.
Mr Trump rapidly escalated matters, brandishing the unproven allegations about Mr Biden's son to accuse his rival of personally taking money from foreign interests."They were paying you a lot of money and they probably still are," Mr Trump said, levelling a charge for which no evidence has surfaced. An investigation by Senate Republicans found no evidence that Mr Biden, the former vice-president, engaged in wrongdoing over his son's business dealings.
After the protracted back-and-forth, Mr Biden sought to pivot with a rehearsed line in which he looked at the camera and said:"It's not about his family and my family. It's about your family." While Mr Biden lashed Mr Trump on his hard-line immigration policies, invoking the group of 500 children whose migrant parents now cannot be located, he also suggested he would be more effective addressing the issue than the president he served - Barack Obama.
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