President Trump sought to bully Joe Biden in a slapfast of a presidential debate Tuesday night, although the Democratic nominee held firm and repudiated his opponent for stoking racism and failures in addressing the coronavirus.
Throughout the night, Trump talked over Biden in the time allocated for his responses, accusing the former vice president of failing to accomplish anything in his 47 years of public service and raising questions about his son Hunter Biden’s financial ties to Russia and China.
Biden, having enough of Trump at times, referred to him as a “clown” and denounced him for stoking racism. “This is a president who has used everything as a dog whistle to try to generate racist hatred, racist division,” Biden said.