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Trump, Biden Facing Off in Tuesday Night Debate

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - Republican U.S. President Donald Trump and his Democratic
   challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden,clashedin a contentious
   debate Tuesday night,immediately attacking each other overhow to combat
   thecoronavirus pandemic in theUnited States, now with a world-leading
   death toll ofmore than 205,000.

   "The president has no plan," Biden claimed. "He knew it was deadlyand
   didn't tell you about it."

   Biden, alluding to Trump's golf game, saidthe president"should get out
   of the sand trap"and stop the advance of the pandemic.

   Trump, seeking a second term after his upset win in 2016,retorted,
   "We've done a great job. We're weeks away from a vaccine."

   The 90-minute encounter on a college campus in the Midwestern city of
   Cleveland, Ohio,camefive weeks ahead of the November 3 election. Itwas
   the first of three times the two candidates, both in their 70s, will
   meet face to faceto debate during thenext month.

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