Five things to watch in the first Trump-Biden debate
By Max Greenwood
President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden will face off for the first time on Tuesday in what could be the most consequential debate of the 2020 presidential election.
With the coronavirus pandemic still raging, a heated fight brewing over the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Supreme Court seat and voters in a handful of states already casting their ballots, the first presidential debate will give both candidates their highest-profile chance to date to make their cases.
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace will moderate the showdown and has already selected a series of topics to guide the discussion.
Here are five things to watch for on Tuesday night.
What's the focus of the debate?
Wallace has broken up the debate into six parts: the coronavirus pandemic, the Supreme Court, Trump's and Biden's records, the economy, the integrity of the election and "race and violence in our cities."
But the candidates have already indicated what they want to talk about. Biden has so far sought to make the presidential election a referendum on Trump's handling of the pandemic, casting him as a failed leader in the face of a global crisis even as other flash points, such as the vacancy on the Supreme Court, enter the fold.
Trump, meanwhile, has been less focused in his appeals to voters, jumping between different arguments throughout the campaign. But Tuesday's debate could give him the opportunity to seize on one of those arguments - the pre-pandemic economy, for instance, or his accusation that Biden has drifted too far to the left.
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Tuesday, September 29th 2020 at 8:46AM
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