Donald Trump and Joe Biden will face off in the first 2020 presidential debate on September 29.US Presidential Elections 2020 Live News Updates: US President Donald Trump has claimed that he won the first presidential debate against his Democratic challenger Joe Biden on Tuesday night. “By every measure, we won the debate easily last night,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Wednesday, a day after he and Biden clashed during the first of the three presidential debates in Cleveland, Ohio. “I think he (Biden) was very weak. He was whining. We won the debate by almost every poll that I saw. If you look at the various polls. And I looked at about six of them, and we won every one of them,” he added.
President Trump and Democratic challenger Biden had heated exchanges on the first of three Presidential Debates in Cleveland, Ohio on Tuesday night where they squared off on several topics, including the vacant Supreme Court seat, the Covid-19 pandemic, the ongoing protests against racial inequality, healthcare, climate change and mail-in ballots. While Biden, 77, was targeted for his son, Hunter Biden’s alleged Ukraine links, Trump, 74, was questioned over a report that alleged he paid only $750 in taxes in the first two years of his presidency.
This was the first of three debates scheduled ahead of the US elections on November 3. The next will take place on October 15, followed by October 22. The Vice Presidential debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris will be held on October 7. Among the highlights of the debate was Trump constant interruptions, speaking over both Biden and moderator Chris Wallace. While Wallace pleaded with Trump to wait his turn, Biden at one point snapped: “Will you shut up, man?” (Read key takeaways from the first presidential debate)
The only mention of India during the debate came when Trump was talking about the Covid-19 situation in the US, and claimed some countries did not reveal the real number of deaths due to the virus. “India, Russia and China don’t give out their real Covid-19 deaths…” he said.
Biden has been ahead of Trump in most national polls since the start of the year, and is currently leading in major battleground states, including Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, where the Republicans won in 2016. (Here’s the US Election 2020 Calendar: What to expect)
Followers of Franklin Graham march from the Lincoln Memorial to Capitol Hill, during the Prayer March at the National Mall, in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020. (AP Photo)
With just over a month to go before Americans head en masse to the polls in an extraordinarily contentious election, Facebook is expanding restrictions on political advertising, including new bans on messages claiming widespread voter fraud.
New prohibitions laid out in a blog post come days after President Donald Trump raised the prospect of mass fraud in the vote-by-mail process during a debate with Democratic rival Joe Biden.
Banned ads ?would include calling a method of voting inherently fraudulent or corrupt, or using isolated incidents of voter fraud to delegitimize the result of an election,? Rob Leathern, Facebook's director of product management, tweeted. The changes apply to Facebook and Instagram and are effective immediately, he said.
The ban includes ads that call an election into question because the result isn't determined on the final day of voting. There is a good chance U.S. election results will require additional time this year because of expanded mail-in ballots due to the pandemic.
Also banned are advertisements portraying voting or census participation as meaningless and advising people not to take part.
Donald Trump and Joe Biden debated. Americans cringed.
After the presidential candidates put on one of the noisiest, most chaotic debates in recent memory, voters across the country struggled for words - printable words - to describe the display.
Many went first to profanities. Others landed on more polite, but still biting, terms for the live, prime-time event, long considered evidence of the rigors of US democracy: "A joke," "a disgrace" and "so disrespectful."
"I was sad. It was sad, and it was very pathetic," said Rickey Hampton, as the 54-year-old stood inside the doorway of his Las Vegas apartment. It was another day of reckoning with the nation's rapidly transforming political culture and its seemingly irreparable divisions. (AP)
Facebook on Wednesday announced that it would ban ads on its website and Instagram that seek to delegitimize the US election results, suggest voting fraud is widespread or attack any voting method. “We’re taking preventive steps to protect the integrity of the upcoming US 2020 elections,” the social media giant announced in a blog post. Facebook will prohibit political ads “with content that seeks to delegitimize the outcome of an election,” said Rob Leathern, the company’s director of product management. Read more
US President Donald Trump has begun planting seeds of doubt in the legitimacy of the November 3 elections as he is aware of his defeat, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has said, a day after the chaotic presidential debate. "In terms of election legitimacy, he made it clear that he didn't think this was going to be--if he lost, it wouldn't be a legitimate election. Already began to plant seeds of doubt in the legitimacy of this election. I don't know any president that's ever done that before," Biden told reporters in Ohio.
Biden slammed Trump for not condemning the white supremacist. "His dog whistles to white supremacy, when asked whether would he condemn white supremacy, he said--he didn't say a word. And then when I said, well, how about the Proud Boys, which is a white supremacist group? He said, well, I just told them to stand down and stand ready. Stand down and stand ready, based on the outcome of the election?" Biden said. (PTI)
Commission on Presidential Debate, the body responsible for organising the US presidential debate, has said that it is carefully considering additional structure to the format to ensure a more orderly discussion of the issues. During the first of the three presidential debates in Cleveland, Ohio, on Tuesday night moderated by Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, 74-year-old US President Donald Trump and his 77-year-old Democratic rival Joe Biden traded barbs about each other's families, making it one of the most chaotic White House debates in years.
"Last night's debate made clear that additional structure should be added to the format of the remaining debates to ensure a more orderly discussion of the issues," the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) said in a statement on Wednesday. CPD said it will be carefully considering the changes that it will adopt and announce the measures shortly. (PTI)
They've been fighting in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania over the cutoff date for counting mailed ballots, and in North Carolina over witness requirements. Ohio is grappling with drop boxes for ballots as Texas faces a court challenge over extra days of early voting. Measuring the anxiety over the November election is as simple as tallying the hundreds of voting-related lawsuits filed across the country in recent months. The cases concern the fundamentals of the American balloting process, including how ballots are cast and counted, during an election made unique by the coronavirus pandemic and by a president who refuses to commit to accepting the results.
The lawsuits are all the more important because President Donald Trump has raised the prospect that the election may wind up before a Supreme Court with a decidedly Republican tilt if his latest nominee is confirmed. "This is a president who has expressed his opposition to access to mail ballots and has also seemed to almost foreshadow the inevitability that this election will be one decided by the courts," said Kristen Clarke, executive director of the National Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights.
That opposition was on display Tuesday during the first presidential debate when Trump launched into an extended argument against mail voting, claiming without evidence that it is ripe for fraud and suggesting mail ballots may be "manipulated." "This is going to be a fraud like you've never seen," the president said of the massive shift to mail voting prompted by the pandemic. (AP)
US President Donald Trump has claimed that he won the first presidential debate against his Democratic challenger Joe Biden on Tuesday night. "By every measure, we won the debate easily last night," Trump told reporters at the White House on Wednesday, a day after he and Biden clashed during the first of the three presidential debates in Cleveland, Ohio. "I think he (Biden) was very weak. He was whining. We won the debate by almost every poll that I saw. If you look at the various polls. And I looked at about six of them, and we won every one of them," he added.
US President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden began the first presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio Tuesday with heated exchanges over health care, the coronavirus and the future of the Supreme Court.
While Trump set the tone from the start badgering Biden and repeatedly interrupting him, Biden, on his part, shifted between ignoring the president and growing visibly irritated. Amid all this, moderator Chris Wallace used a combination of pleading and admonishing Trump to allow his rival to speak.
What was very obvious during the debate was the fact that while an array of complex and substantive issues were on the debate agenda – a Supreme Court vacancy, the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, the nation’s reckoning over race and police brutality – the candidates’ radically different perspectives and visions for the country were frequently overshadowed by their disdain for each other. READ MORE
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that there is zero enthusiasm in the Democratic party for its presidential nominee Joe Biden and nobody wants "sleepy Joe" as a leader, a day after the two fiercely clashed over a wide range of issues in the first presidential debate.
Trump, a Republican, and Biden are pitted against each other for the November 3 presidential elections.
During the first of the three presidential debates in Cleveland, Ohio, on Tuesday night moderated by Fox News anchor Chris Wallace in Cleveland, Ohio, 74-year-old Trump and his 77-year-old rival Biden debated on issues, including the COVID-19 pandemic, racism, economy and climate. They also traded barbs about each other's families, making it one of the most chaotic White House debates in years.
What states vote early and when are these votes counted? All states allow some form of early voting, be it by casting votes in person at polling places, voting by mail, or both. But each state has its own rules and timelines on when this occurs.
Some started in September. Some don't start until mid-October, or even closer to Election Day on November 3. Just as there are 50 different timelines for early voting, there are 50 different ones for how the votes are counted. Some states allow the "processing" of mail-in ballots - the often time-consuming flattening and opening of envelopes, verifying signatures and sorting ballots into the correct piles for tabulation - to begin as many as three weeks before Election Day.
Some only allow it to begin on Election Day itself, which can lead to a chaotic and lengthy count. That's the process in several key swing states. Democrats fear this will delay the count of mail-in ballots, expected to heavily favor Democrats, and give President Donald Trump a phony early lead that he could seize on to declare the election over. (AP)
Share prices in Europe and Asia were mostly lower on Wednesday after the debate between President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden.
There was scant sign the clash did much to sway investors. Shares fell in Paris, Frankfurt and Tokyo on Wednesday, while upbeat manufacturing data lifted shares in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Investors remain cautious with COVID-19 infections on the rise again in the U.S. and elsewhere.
The Trump-Biden debate occurred as coronavirus deaths worldwide have surpassed 1 million. Many millions of people worldwide are jobless. Germany's DAX fell 0.6% to 12,755.33 and the CAC 40 in Paris lost 0.4% to 4,813.99. The FTSE 100 in Britain edged 0.1% lower to 5,889.73. US futures skidded, with the contract for the S&P 500 down 0.8% and that for the Dow industrials falling 0.9%. (AP)
"Chaos, interruptions, personal attacks and insults," one outspoken Chinese newspaper editor said of the US presidential debate.
An Australian counterpart said it was "swamped" by the "rancor engulfing America."
The first debate pitting Republican President Donald Trump against Democratic challenger Joe Biden was not a highlight of political oratory in the eyes of many overseas. Yet interest ran high for its potential impact on what may be the most consequential US election in years, now just over a month away.
Observers looked for possible impact on financial markets and currencies, although the reaction was muted overall. Share prices slipped further in Japan and the dollar weaened against the Japanese yen and the euro, while US futures were lower, auguring a weak opening on Wall Street. The debate itself went as expected, said Jeffrey Halley, a senior market analyst at Oanda. (AP)
US Senator Kamala Harris has criticised President Donald Trump's conduct during the first night of the presidential debates as one that "denigrates the office", as she extended support to the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, saying Joe Biden understands who are important -- the American families.
President Trump and Democratic challenger Biden had heated exchanges on the first of three Presidential Debates in Cleveland, Ohio on Tuesday night. "I think the American people deserve to have an ability to compare and contrast the candidates. I think tonight provided a very clear contrast. On the one hand, you have Joe Biden who looked into the camera, who spoke to the American people continuously, who understood who was important on that stage, which is the American families," Harris told CBS News in an interview.
"And then you have Donald Trump, who I think really denigrated the office of the president of the United States as much as he has done over the course of the last four years," Harris, the Democratic Party's vice presidential nominee, said in her first reaction after the conclusion of the first round of debates.
Harris, 55, is the first-ever Black, African-American and Indian-American woman to be the vice-presidential candidate of a major political party.(AP)
President Donald Trump offered to name Judge Amy Coney Barrett his Supreme Court nominee more than a week ago at the White House - and she accepted, according to formal paperwork submitted to the Senate ahead of her confirmation hearings.
Barrett tells the Senate Judiciary Committee that the White House initially contacted her Sept. 19, the day after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, creating the court vacancy. Trump made the offer when she visited the White House on Monday, Sept. 21, "and I accepted," she wrote.
That's days before Trump's formal announcement Saturday, and as he kept Americans guessing up until the last moment, suggesting he was still considering other nominees. The judge's nearly 70-page questionnaire was submitted by the White House to the Senate Tuesday as Barrett launched day one of private meetings at the Capitol, drawing praise from GOP senators but opposition from Democrats objecting to her conservative views and fast-track confirmation before the Nov. 3 election. (AP)
The Trump administration's top intelligence official said Tuesday that he has declassified Russian intelligence alleging damaging information about Democrats during the 2016 election even though he acknowledged it might not be true.
The announcement, just hours before the first presidential debate of this November's election, drew harsh criticism from lawmakers who accused National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe of politicizing intelligence.
In a letter Tuesday to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Ratcliffe said that in late July 2016, U.S. intelligence agencies obtained "insight" into Russian spycraft alleging that Hillary Clinton, who was running for president, had "approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against" Trump.
But Ratcliffe added that American intelligence agencies do "not know the accuracy of this allegation or the extent to which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggeration or fabrication."
The announcement was a startling break from convention given that the nation's intelligence chiefs are generally loath to publicly discuss sensitive government intelligence, particularly when that information is unconfirmed - as Ratcliffe himself admits is the case here. (AP)
Mail-in voting has gotten off to a rocky start in New York City, where election officials sent out nearly 100,000 absentee ballots with the wrong names and addresses printed on the return envelopes.
The deluge of faulty ballots, sent to voters across Brooklyn, could result in ballots being voided if voters sign their own name on return envelopes bearing different names. The New York City Board of Elections blamed the problem on the company hired to print and mail the ballots.
The faulty ballots are limited to one print run of ballots sent out to Brooklyn voters, the board's director Michael Ryan said at a board meeting Tuesday. He didn't say during the meeting how many were printed. But Governor Andrew Cuomo's top aide Melissa DeRosa said the issue was contained to about 100,000 ballots. (AP)
Indian-American supporters of President Donald Trump said the Republican leader "sealed the deal" at the first presidential election debate while the community members supporting his Democratic challenger Joe Biden asserted that the former vice president made a "successful case" to occupy the White House for the next four years.
Indian Americans, who account for one per cent of the country's population, but are increasingly getting active in domestic politics, organised watch parties, mostly virtual, to watch the first of the three presidential debates between Trump and Biden.
President Trump and Biden began the first presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio on Tuesday with heated exchanges over health care, the coronavirus and the future of the Supreme Court. "President Trump seals the deal for his re-election, crushing Biden at the debate. Game over," said Al Mason, co-chair of the Trump Victory Indian American Finance Committee.
Indian American attorney from California Harmeet K Dhillon slammed debate moderator Chris Wallace, a popular Fox news anchor, for allegedly taking sides. "Chris Wallace is a disgrace. Republicans need to stop allowing the slanted media to have any role in debates in future years," tweeted Dhillon, co-chair of Lawyers for Trump and co-chair of Sikhs for Trump. (PTI)
US President Donald Trump Wednesday claimed India was among the countries that do not accurately disclose the number of deaths due to Covid-19. Speaking in the first presidential debate against his Democratic challenger Joe Biden, Trump said India, China and Russia “did not exactly give a straight count” on deaths due to the novel coronavirus.
“When you talk about numbers, you don’t know how many people died in China. You don’t know the deaths in Russia or in India… they don’t exactly give you a straight count, just so you understand,” Trump said to Biden after the latter highlighted the United States has more than seven million cases and over 200,000 deaths. Read more here
In the hour of the presidential debate, the Biden campaign raised $3.8 million, the highest single-hour funds ever, reported Reuters. Biden's deputy campaign manager, Kate Bedingfield, told reporters this after the debate, which saw Biden spar with Trump on several issues.
The first presidential debate concludes on a stormy note, with both Donald Trump and Joe Biden trying to get in the last words. The next debate will be held next week, on October 16. Stay tuned for more udpates on the US elections!
To ensure this is a fair election, Democratic candidate Joe Biden says America should let people vote, even by mail-in ballots, make sure polls are open in time and stay open till all votes are counted. "Show up and vote. You will determine the outcome of this election. Vote, vote, vote. Vote in whatever way is the best way for you," Biden tells the electorate. What's the debate over mail-in ballots? Read our explainer
The NYT is live drawing the first US presidential debate. Here are some cartoons:
The next topic of debate is climate change. The moderator asks Trump what he believes on the science of climate change. "I want crystal clean water and beautiful air. We are doing phenomenally, but I have not killed businesses. As far the fires are concerned, we need better forest management," he says.
On why the electorate should vote for him, Trump says, "There has never been an administration or a president who has done more than I have done in three and a half years." Biden, meanwhile, says, "Under this president, we've become weaker, sicker, poorer and more divided and more violent."
Trump is asked by the moderator: Are you willing to condemn white supremacists and militia groups? He responds: "I'm willing to do anything to see peace... Somebody's got to do something about Antifa and left-wing groups."
Here are some pictures from the first presidential debate ahead of the US Elections 2020. (AP Photos)
Joe Biden says there is systemic injustice against Blacks in the US. "There is a systemic injustice against Blacks in the US. The vast majority of police officers are good, decent, honourable men and women. But there are some bad apples who have to be held accountable. What I will do is call everyone and work this out so we have more transparency. We have to have a system when people are held accountable," says Biden. "Peaceful protests is acceptable, but not violence."
Trump advocates law enforcement amid raging protests in the US on race, ethnicity and police brutalty. "We believe in law and order, but you don't. The people of this country want and demand law and order," Trump says.
Democratic candidate Joe Biden says Trump has generated racist division in the country. "This man is the saviour of African Americans? He cares at all? He has done virtually nothing. You have to look at what he has done... It has been disastrous for America," he says.
Moderator appeals to Trump to stop interrupting Biden. "I think the country will be better served with less interruptions," he says. The moderator now goes on to the next segment of the debate, which is on race: Why should voters trust you instead of your opponent?
Trump targets Biden on his son Hunter Biden, who the Republicans claim “cashed in” on his father’s position by joining the board of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas firm, in 2014. In case you missed it, here is the report.
Joe Biden: "The tax code that put him in a position where he pays less tax than a school teachers is because he took advantage of the tax code. I am going to eliminate these tax codes and invest in the people who need help... You're the worst president we've ever had."
The moderator picks up on Biden's cue and asks Trump: Is it true you paid $750 in taxes in 2016? "I paid millions of dollars in tax returns," Trump says. "You will see it after it's filed... Unless your stupid, any person will go through the laws..."
Joe Biden finally raises the NYT report on Trump's tax evasion. ICYMI, here's the report. Anyway, it's quickly back to the Covid-19 impact on the US economy"The idea that he is insisting that we reopen, why? Why doesn't he take care of the people? You can't fix the economy until you fix the people," says Biden.
Trump calls Covid-19 the "China plague" during the debate on the pandemic and its effect on the economy. "It should have never happened from China. We closed the economy, but we are reopening now. Only Democratic states don't want to reopen. People are hurting, but people know what to do. Our country is coming back incredibly well. This guy will destroy the economy," Trump says.
Trump says he is holding big rallies amid Covid-19 because "people want to hear what I have to say". "So far, we have had no problem. We have tremendous crowds, literally on 24 hours notice," the President says. Biden, meanwhile, says Trump has been "totally irresponsible" and is "a fool on this".
On the effectiveness of masks, Trump says he wears masks when needed. "I wear a mask when I think I need it. I don't wear masks like Biden. Everytime you see him, he has a mask. He could be speaking 200 feet away, and he has the biggest mask I've ever seen!" To this, Biden responds: "Masks make a big difference. The head of CDC says masks matter."
Biden takes on Trump for knowing the severity of Covid-19 early on in the pandemic but failing to warn the public. This is a claim that was highlighted in journalist Bob Woodward's book. Trump reportedly said back in February, "This is deadly stuff... You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed... And so that’s a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one. It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flu."
During the debate, Biden says, "He still hasn't even acknowledged that he knew how dangerous this would be back in February. He either paniced or just looked at the stock market..."
Trump responds to Biden on Covid-19: "If it was left to you, millions of people would have died... You could have never have done the job we did. You don't have the blood to do the job." He says the US' death toll due to the pandemic is lower than other countries, and that "India, Russia and China don't give out their real Covid-19 deaths..." He also targets Biden on his handling of H1N1.
Biden targets Trump on his response to Covid-19. "He waited and waited and waited. He still has no plan," says Biden on Trump's handling of the crisis. "Fund what needs to be done to save lives."
Trump is seen interrupting both the moderator and Biden. He sarcastically calls the first segment "productive", to which Biden tells him to "keep yapping man". The moderator has moved on to the second topic of the day, the public health crisis due to Covid-19.
The first topic of discussion is healthcare. The moderater asks Trump on his healthcare plan considering he is opposed to Obamacare. "I'm cutting drug prices by 80-90 per cent, and going with favourite nations," President Trump responds. To this, Biden says, "He doesn't have a plan. This man doesn't know what he is talking about."
Trump and Biden have walked on to stage for the first debate. In times of Covid-19, there are no handshakes or physical greetings. The audience, too, is seen sitting with distance between them. The event today will be divided into 15-minute mini segments, each of which will focus on one of six key topics — the candidates’ records, the Supreme Court, Covid-19, the economy, race and violence, and finally, the integrity of the election.
There are four debates between the presidential candidates ahead of the US elections. The televised events are likely to be the only times the two candidates will share a stage before election day on November 3. The two Vice Presidential candidates — current Vice President Mike Pence and Biden’s running mate Senator Kamala Harris — will also face off in a debate slated early next month.
The 23rd presidential debate will be moderated by Chris Wallace, the anchor of Fox News Sunday. Last weekend, Wallace said his job was "to be as invisible as possible" during the debate today. According to The New York Times, Wallace is expected to be an equal-opportunity interrogator, but is unlikely to fact-check either of the candidates. "I do not believe it is my job to be a truth squad," he had said before a debate in 2016. "It’s up to the other person to catch them on that."
Joe Biden is tweeting away ahead of the debate. "I’m about to step on stage to debate Donald Trump for the first time. But before I do, can you chip in to show him the power of our grassroots base? Every donation — big or small — goes a long way," he says. In another tweet, he says, "If we’re elected, Kamala Harris and I will wake up every single morning to fight for the middle class. For Main Street. For the folks who keep our country running. We’re going to make our government work for everyone — not just the wealthy and well-connected."
President Donald Trump spent Tuesday morning in informal preparations for the first debate with Joe Biden. A longer, more formal preparation session was set for the afternoon once he arrives in Cleveland.
Trump's prep team includes former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, campaign communications strategist Jason Miller, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, Jared Kushner, press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and communications director Alyssa Farah. Some other advisers like Dan Scavino and Hope Hicks have also been involved. (AP)
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, have released more of their personal tax returns ahead of the first presidential debate. The Bidens' returns show the couple paid almost $300,000 in federal taxes in 2019, including almost $288,000 in personal income tax. The Bidens reported taxable income of $944,737.
The release on Tuesday comes just days after The New York Times reported that Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016, the year he was elected president, and again in 2017, his first year in office. The Times said Trump paid no federal income taxes for 10 of the 15 years before that.
Biden and Trump are set to meet Tuesday night in Cleveland for their first presidential debate, and Trump's taxes are sure to come up.
President Donald Trump spent Tuesday morning in informal preparations for the first debate with Joe Biden. A longer, more formal preparation session was set for the afternoon once he arrives in Cleveland.
Trump's prep team includes former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, campaign communications strategist Jason Miller, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, Jared Kushner, press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and communications director Alyssa Farah. Some other advisers like Dan Scavino and Hope Hicks have also been involved.
While Trump is itching to go on the offense against Biden, some aides have encouraged him to adopt a more measured tone -- believing that in many ways the debates are more about Trump vs himself than Biden. Trump, they argue, should focus more on selling his accomplishments than trying to viciously attack Biden. Some involved with the preparations, though, have encouraged Trump's more aggressive 'counterpunching' side.
The debate will be held at the Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Ohio has traditionally been a swing state over the past two decades, but Trump won there by eight points in 2016. The state is seen as trending towards becoming more solidly Republican, due to its whiter, older population compared with the rest of the US.
The Fox News journalist was in charge of selecting the six topics, and they were announced by the Commission on Presidential Debates last week.
They are:
The records of President Trump and former vice-president Joe Biden
The Supreme Court
Covid-19
Economy
Race and violence
The integrity of the election
President Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, is on Capitol Hill on Tuesday for meetings with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other pivotal Republican senators in preparation for her fast-track confirmation before the November 3 election.
The judge is making a whirlwind visit to McConnell and eight other Republican senators in separate, private sessions. Democrats are confronting the limits of their power as they fight against the nomination and some have said they won't meet with Barrett, who is expected to be swiftly confirmed for the seat held by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg by the end of October.
Unable to block Trump's pick on their own, Democrats are aimed at avoiding mistakes that could hurt the party's candidates in November. (AP)
It will begin Wednesday at 6:30 am (IST) and will last till 8 am.
The election season in the United States of America is set to intensify as the Presidential candidates — Democrat leader Joe Biden and the incumbent Republican President Donald Trump will engage in their maiden customary face-to-face debate Tuesday night.
The debate, held in the state of Ohio, is the first of the three debates ahead of the presidential vote on November 3. The Tuesday night debate will offer a powerful stage for Trump and Biden to outline their different visions for a country facing multiple crises, including Black Live Matter protests and the coronavirus pandemic that has claimed the lives of more than 200,000 Americans and cost millions of jobs. The debate will last for an estimated 90 minutes. Read more here