US President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden participate in the first presidential debate moderated by Fox News anchor Chris Wallace (C) at the Health Education Campus of Case Western Reserve University on September 29, 2020 in Cleveland, Ohio. (AFP photos)
Republican and Democratic nominees, Donald Tromp and Joe Biden, hold their first of three debates ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
The Tuesday debate was held in a venue in Cleveland, Ohio, where the two politicians mostly kept talking over each other and trading insults.
It was the first of three planned debates between the two candidates in the lead up to the election on November 3.
Here are some of the key quotes from the rather chaotic event:
Outcome of election
Trump: "When you have 80 million ballots coming in and swamping the system, it cant be done."
Biden: "I will accept it, and he will, too. You know why? Because once the winner is declared once all the ballots are counted, thatll be the end of it."
Insults and interruptions
Trump: "Dont ever use the word smart with me. Dont ever use that word with me. Theres nothing smart about you, Joe."
Biden: "Will you shut up, man?" "Its hard to get a word in with this clown."
Biden on Trump: "He wouldnt know a suburb unless he took a wrong turn."
- Doina Chiacu (@DoinaChiacu) September 30, 2020
Violence and police brutality
Biden: "Violence in response is never appropriate. Never appropriate. Peaceful protest is. Violence is never appropriate."
Trump: "You cant even say the words law enforcement because if you say those words, youre going to lose all of your radical left supporters."
Trump seemingly refused to say the phrase "white supremacists" - after Biden mentioned the Proud Boys, Trump said, "Stand down and stand by," before immediately saying some people have to do something about "antifa."
- Joseph Ax (@josephax) September 30, 2020
US Supreme Court justice confirmation
Trump: "I will tell you very simply we won the election, elections have consequences. We have the Senate and we have the White House and we have a phenomenal nominee respected by all."
Biden: "We should wait, we should wait and see what the outcome of this election is."
Trump: "I think that she (Judge Amy Coney Barrett ) will be outstanding. She will be as good as anybody who has ever served on that court. We won the election and therefore we had the right to choose her."
Covid-19 pandemic
Biden: "How many of you got up this morning and had an empty chair at the kitchen table because someone died of covid?"
Trump: "Weve done a great job. But I tell you, Joe, you could never have done the job weve done. You dont have it in your blood."
Biden: "Folks, do you have any idea what this clowns doing? I tell you what, he is not for anybody needing healthcare."
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