The Democratic nominee and former Vice President <a href="https://www.wionews.com/topics/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a>&nbsp;has set a record for spending money on television and digital advertising.

As per data revealed by the&nbsp;Advertising Analytics, a non-partisan firm, the former Vice President has spent more than&nbsp;$582 million on television advertising. This amount has been spent since the start of the campaigning.&nbsp;

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His team has spent&nbsp;$45 million on air in the last one week itself. The team&nbsp;also spent another $57 million in television time reserved over the final 10-days before the upcoming <a href="https://www.wionews.com/us-election?page=1">US elections</a>.

The report by the&nbsp;Advertising Analytics was published in the leading daily The Hill.&nbsp;

As per the data provided, the two campaigns — Donald Trump's and Joe Biden's — have spent&nbsp;$160 million on television and digital ads in the past week.

The report also revealed that <a href="https://www.wionews.com/topics/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a>'s campaign&nbsp;has spent $342 million in the past two years — the time since Trump has been actively campaigning for the 2020 presidential elections.

<a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/trump-to-vote-in-person-in-florida-before-hitting-campaign-trail-337640">Also read|&nbsp;Trump to vote in person in Florida before hitting campaign trail</a>

Another interesting thing was Trump spent a tad more than Joe Biden on Facebook and Google advertising —&nbsp;$14 million versus about $12.7 million.

The two campaigns have published more than 100,000 advertisements per week in the week of October, the Wesleyan Media Project revealed, with majority of the advertisements running in&nbsp;Phoenix, Arizona; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Des Moines, Iowa; the three swing states that Trump won in 2016.

The Democratic nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden has set a record for spending money on television and digital advertising. As per data revealed by the Advertising Analytics, a non-partisan firm, the former Vice President has spent more than $582 million on television advertising.

The Democratic nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden has set a record for spending money on television and digital advertising. As per data revealed by the Advertising Analytics, a non-partisan firm, the former Vice President has spent more than $582 million on television advertising. This amount has been spent since the start of the campaigning. Also read| US election 2020: 19-year-old charged for plotting the assassination of Joe Biden His team has spent $45 million on air in the last one week itself. The team also spent another $57 million in television time reserved over the final 10-days before the upcoming US elections. The report by the Advertising Analytics was published in the leading daily The Hill. As per the data provided, the two campaigns — Donald Trump's and Joe Biden's — have spent $160 million on television and digital ads in the past week. The report also revealed that Donald Trump's campaign has spent $342 million in the past two years — the time since Trump has been actively campaigning for the 2020 presidential elections. Also read| Trump to vote in person in Florida before hitting campaign trail Another interesting thing was Trump spent a tad more than Joe Biden on Facebook and Google advertising — $14 million versus about $12.7 million. The two campaigns have published more than 100,000 advertisements per week in the week of October, the Wesleyan Media Project revealed, with majority of the advertisements running in Phoenix, Arizona; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Des Moines, Iowa; the three swing states that Trump won in 2016.

Trump's loss: Joe Biden breaks television spending record week before US Election 2020

United States President Donald Trump will vote in person in West Palm Beach, Florida, before holding campaign rallies in the three swing states of North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin.

Trump shifted his permanent residence and voter registration from New York to Florida last year.

In the 2016 presidential election, Trump won Florida, a major swing state, by 49.02 per cent of the votes, while his then Democratic rival Hillary Clinton came in close with 47.82 per cent of the ballots.

According to the latest polling averages, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is currently leading Trump in Florida by 1.4 percentage points or 48.2 per cent to 46.8 per cent.

After voting, the president will hold rallies in the three states, all won by Trump in 2016.

On Saturday, Biden will hold drive-in rallies in Pennsylvania, another battleground state which swung in Trump's favour in 2016 with 48.18 per cent of the votes, while Clinton garnered 47.46 per cent of the total ballots.

Biden's planned rallies will be held in Bucks County north of Philadelphia and Luzerne County near his birthplace of Scranton, according to local media.

According to the latest Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Wednesday, Biden was in the lead with support from 49 per cent of registered voters, while Trump had the backing of 45 per cent.

With just 10 days before the November 3 election, around 53.5 million American citizens have already cast early votes, marking a record pace in more than a century.

United States President Donald Trump will vote in person in West Palm Beach, Florida, before holding campaign rallies in the three swing states of North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin.

United States President Donald Trump will vote in person in West Palm Beach, Florida, before holding campaign rallies in the three swing states of North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin. Trump shifted his permanent residence and voter registration from New York to Florida last year. In the 2016 presidential election, Trump won Florida, a major swing state, by 49.02 per cent of the votes, while his then Democratic rival Hillary Clinton came in close with 47.82 per cent of the ballots. According to the latest polling averages, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is currently leading Trump in Florida by 1.4 percentage points or 48.2 per cent to 46.8 per cent. After voting, the president will hold rallies in the three states, all won by Trump in 2016. On Saturday, Biden will hold drive-in rallies in Pennsylvania, another battleground state which swung in Trump's favour in 2016 with 48.18 per cent of the votes, while Clinton garnered 47.46 per cent of the total ballots. Biden's planned rallies will be held in Bucks County north of Philadelphia and Luzerne County near his birthplace of Scranton, according to local media. According to the latest Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Wednesday, Biden was in the lead with support from 49 per cent of registered voters, while Trump had the backing of 45 per cent. With just 10 days before the November 3 election, around 53.5 million American citizens have already cast early votes, marking a record pace in more than a century.

Trump to vote in person in Florida before hitting campaign trail

At least she didn't have to wait in line.

A US astronaut cast her ballot from the International Space Station on Thursday, making her voice heard in the <a href="https://www.wionews.com/us-election">presidential election</a> despite being 253 miles (408 kilometers) above the Earth.

"From the International Space Station: I voted today," crew member Kate Rubins, who began a six-month stint aboard the orbiting station last week, said on US space agency NASA's Twitter account.

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The post featured a photograph of Rubins, her blonde hair floating in the zero-gravity environment, in front of a white enclosure with a paper sign that reads "ISS voting booth."

Rubins and NASA described the process as a form of absentee voting.&nbsp;

A secure electronic ballot generated by a clerk's office in Harris County, home of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, was sent up via email to the ISS.

Rubins filled out the ballot in the email and it was downlinked and delivered back to the clerk's office.

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She is no stranger to the process: Rubins cast her vote from the ISS during the 2016 election. Congress passed legislation in 1997 that made voting from space possible.

"We consider it an honor to be able to vote from space," she said in a video before she and two Russian cosmonauts launched from the Russian-operated Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 14.

"If we can do it from space then I believe folks can do it from the ground too."

Three other American astronauts were also expected to vote from space but their October 31 trip to the ISS was delayed.&nbsp;

At least she didn't have to wait in line. A US astronaut cast her ballot from the International Space Station on Thursday, making her voice heard in the presidential election despite being 253 miles (408 kilometers) above the Earth.

At least she didn't have to wait in line. A US astronaut cast her ballot from the International Space Station on Thursday, making her voice heard in the presidential election despite being 253 miles (408 kilometers) above the Earth. "From the International Space Station: I voted today," crew member Kate Rubins, who began a six-month stint aboard the orbiting station last week, said on US space agency NASA's Twitter account. From the International Space Station: I voted today — Kate Rubins pic.twitter.com/DRdjwSzXwy — NASA Astronauts (@NASA_Astronauts) October 22, 2020 × The post featured a photograph of Rubins, her blonde hair floating in the zero-gravity environment, in front of a white enclosure with a paper sign that reads "ISS voting booth." Rubins and NASA described the process as a form of absentee voting. A secure electronic ballot generated by a clerk's office in Harris County, home of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, was sent up via email to the ISS. Rubins filled out the ballot in the email and it was downlinked and delivered back to the clerk's office. Also read| US election 2020: Joe Biden calls Donald Trump's immigration policies 'criminal' She is no stranger to the process: Rubins cast her vote from the ISS during the 2016 election. Congress passed legislation in 1997 that made voting from space possible. "We consider it an honor to be able to vote from space," she said in a video before she and two Russian cosmonauts launched from the Russian-operated Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 14. "If we can do it from space then I believe folks can do it from the ground too." Three other American astronauts were also expected to vote from space but their October 31 trip to the ISS was delayed.

Ultimate absentee ballot: US astronaut votes from space station

BANGOR, Maine — Sen. Susan Collins of Maine seemed to have a challenge on her hands.

A Republican running for reelection in a difficult year for her party, Collins was opposed by a well-funded Democrat with a political base in vote-rich southern Maine who was hoping to capitalize on the unpopularity of the Republican in the White House. But in that 2008 race, even as the GOP presidential nominee lost Maine by 17 percentage points, Collins won reelection by over 20 points, carrying every county in the state.

That was then.

Twelve years after what Collins thought was the most difficult reelection of her career, she is facing eerily similar circumstances — but this time she’s in the fight of her political life. And it is what has changed since 2008 in Maine, the Republican Party and politics broadly that could end her career.

The four-term senator has alienated Democrats here and beyond by voting to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh. She has become a national punchline among liberals for what they see as her toothless tut-tutting of President Donald Trump, whom she is invariably “concerned” about. And she’s been out-raised $63 million to $25 million by her Democratic opponent, Sara Gideon, the speaker of the state House.

Collins’ biggest problem this year, however, may not be Gideon or the out-of-state donors eager to send her a message, but rather the shifting ground under her feet.

She is confronting a state, sharply cleaved by region and class, that would have been politically unrecognizable to her predecessors; an increasingly alien party overtaken by a president who demands unflinching loyalty; and, perhaps most daunting of all, a polarized political culture that elevates tribalism and national issues over the bipartisanship and pork-barreling that she has always pursued.

“I don’t know if people respond as well to that anymore,” conceded former Sen. William S. Cohen of Maine, a moderate Republican whom Collins succeeded in the Senate after working for him as a young staff member. “Therein lies the challenge of being somebody in the middle.”

Collins is the only Republican senator on the ballot this year who has not endorsed Trump.

In an interview on her campaign bus, she acknowledged momentarily considering running this year as an independent — “it crossed my mind,” she said — but was quick to note that she couldn’t easily abandon “the New England brand of Republicanism.”

It’s a dying breed. Collins is the only remaining Republican member of Congress from New England.

Equally endangered, though, are any senators who can win reelection when their party’s nominee is soundly defeated in the state. Trump is expected to be competitive only in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, which he won in 2016, and even there polls suggest that Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee, has an edge.

In 1984, when Ronald Reagan won a 49-state landslide, Democrats still netted two Senate seats. And even as recently as 2008, Republicans like Collins were winning reelection in blue states while Democratic senators were cruising in red ones like South Dakota and West Virginia.

By 2016, though, the results of every Senate race mirrored the state’s preference in the presidential race.

Now Collins is no more likely to outrun Trump by 20 points, as she did John McCain in 2008, than Maine is to embrace crab over lobster as its crustacean of choice.

Her argument, though, is that there are exceptions to this era of polarization, and that well-known lawmakers in lightly populated states can overcome the partisan tide. Sens. Jon Tester of Montana and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, for example, both won as Democrats in Republican-leaning states just two years ago.

“There’s a lot of parallels,” Collins said. “I still believe that most voters want problems solved and that they’re put off by this us-against-them tribalism.”

Listening to Collins kick off her statewide bus tour in Bangor was like stepping into a political time machine.

She drew applause after trumpeting her record as the most bipartisan senator, noted that she had never missed a floor vote and bragged about the federal dollars she had delivered for new breakwaters in small communities.

Then she delivered the finale: “With your help, when I’m reelected, a year later I become the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee,” she announced.

The pitch resonated with some supporters, but even they were self-aware about the dated nature of Collins’ appeal.

“I guess I’m a dinosaur in that I appreciate her centrist views and also I appreciate that she’s been doing this a long time and has ranking positions on a lot of important committees,” said Janna Jensen of nearby Brewer. “I don’t know how many people value that.”

A New York Times-Siena College survey last month pointed to the limitations of localism — and that was before the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg elevated the Supreme Court and issues like abortion rights.

Fifty percent of Mainers said national issues, like which party controls the Senate, were most important to their Senate vote, while 41% said local matters, such as who can do more for Maine, were paramount.

A Rhode Island native, as Collins delights in noting, Gideon has made health care the centerpiece of her campaign, even more than Collins’ vote on Kavanaugh.During her time in the Legislature, the Democrat pushed to expand Medicaidin the state, clashing with former Gov. Paul LePage, a Republican, on the issue.As much as any individual policy issue, though, Gideon’s core message is that a vote for Collins is a vote to keep Republicans in control of the Senate.

“As long as Susan Collins is elected again to the United States Senate, Mitch McConnell will again likely be the Senate majority leader,” Gideon told attendees at a supper near Lewiston last month.

She repeated a version of that line in a brief interview afterward, and grew slightly defensive when that was pointed out.

“I don’t walk around talking about Mitch McConnell all the time,” she said, before retreating to a talking point about what Mainers focus on “when they sit down at their kitchen table.”

Yet Gideon was more candid at the end of the conversation, when asked if she was happy with the Senate contest becoming nationalized.

“We are where we are in this country,” she said.

And Collins is where she is, in the dwindling middle between a party that loves Trump and one that loathes him.

The most frequently heard criticism of her is that she has changed, and has betrayed her moderate roots. Gideon has encouraged this sentiment and, when asked what she had in mind, cited Collins’ support for the 2017 Republican tax cuts.

Yet Collins also supported George W. Bush’s similarly high-end tax cuts, just as she backed his nominees to the Supreme Court.

What Maine voters often mean when they say Collins has changed, though, is that the Republican Party has changed — and by that they mean Trump.

“The party has moved right,” said Carl Bucciantini, a retired teacher who came to hear Gideon. “It was conservative under Reagan, conservative under the Bushes and now it’s just crazy&lt;em&gt;.”&lt;/em&gt;

Collins continues to dodge the question of how she’ll vote for president, but she said last month that she would probably avoid Trump if he campaigned in Maine.

In the same interview, conducted before the death of Ginsburg, Collins said she would oppose filling a Supreme Court vacancy in October. Since the senator reaffirmed that view after Ginsburg’s death, Trump has repeatedly criticized Collins.

“I think that Susan Collins is going to be hurt very badly — her people aren’t going to take this,” the president predicted in September, before heckling her on Twitter last week for opposing the hasty court nomination&lt;em&gt;. &lt;/em&gt;

Pressed as to why she never fully broke with Trump the same way that her heroine, former Maine Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, had confronted Joseph McCarthy, Collins recalled that she had helped torpedo the effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act and parted ways with the president on issues like his attempt to use military money for a border wall.

“I have had so many Margaret Chase Smith moments,” she said.

The more persuasive answer, though, came from a supporter at the bus tour introduction who loathes Trump but said Collins was caught in a political vise.

“She can’t,” said the supporter, Kathy Anderson, when asked why Collins wouldn’t condemn Trump. “Look at the demographics here.”

Maine has always been split between its more affluent coastline and its blue-collar interior. But the political and social gap has widened even further in recent years.

“A lot of the people down here are more connected to Napa Valley than they are Penobscot Valley,” said John Baldacci, a former Democratic governor of the state, who grew up in Bangor and now works in Portland.

The influx of transplants along the Maine coast and the migration of working-class whites into the Republican Party under Trump and LePage, who called himself “Trump before Trump,” have upended the state’s politics.

Perhaps most significant, and for Collins most threatening, LePage’s consecutive plurality victories prompted Maine to enact ranked-choice voting. In this system, voters rank their preference on the ballot so that those who receive few first-place votes are eliminated and the eventual winner garners a majority.

This means that the votes of those supporting a liberal independent candidate, Lisa Savage, can ultimately go to Gideon if Savage’s backers list Gideon as their second choice.

It’s a significant shift in a state with a long tradition of independence.

Maine has elected two unaffiliated governors in the last half-century and in 1992 handed Ross Perot more than 30% of the vote, his best showing of any state. Now, though, it has the same red-and-blue divide as the rest of the country — and the old outlines of its political map have been redrawn.

Republicans used to run up some of their best margins in wealthy enclaves along the Atlantic, while Democrats consistently fared best in immigrant-heavy and union-organized mill towns farther inland.

Maps from the last two major elections, the 2016 presidential contest and the 2018 governor’s race, reveal a near-unbroken stretch of Democratic blue up the Atlantic Coast from Kittery to Bar Harbor.

There are effectively two states — one working class and more pro-Trump, and the other more upscale and deeply contemptuous of the president — that Collins must bridge.

They can be seen in the Trump lawn signs sprouting up across inland Maine and the ubiquity of Biden signs nearly anywhere saltwater is in the air.

Back on Collins’ bus, she concluded an interview by recalling that in 2008 she “only lost eight communities in the entire state.”

But once she stepped into the office of an oil heating company to address employees, she returned to the present.

“The country is so polarized and Maine is, too, unfortunately,” Collins said.

BANGOR, Maine — Sen. Susan Collins of Maine seemed to have a challenge on her hands. A Republican running for reelection in a difficult year for her party, Collins was opposed by a well-funded Democrat with a political base in vote-rich southern Maine who was hoping to capitalize on the unpopularity of the Republican in the White House.

BANGOR, Maine — Sen. Susan Collins of Maine seemed to have a challenge on her hands. A Republican running for reelection in a difficult year for her party, Collins was opposed by a well-funded Democrat with a political base in vote-rich southern Maine who was hoping to capitalize on the unpopularity of the Republican in the White House. But in that 2008 race, even as the GOP presidential nominee lost Maine by 17 percentage points, Collins won reelection by over 20 points, carrying every county in the state. That was then. Twelve years after what Collins thought was the most difficult reelection of her career, she is facing eerily similar circumstances — but this time she’s in the fight of her political life. And it is what has changed since 2008 in Maine, the Republican Party and politics broadly that could end her career. The four-term senator has alienated Democrats here and beyond by voting to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh. She has become a national punchline among liberals for what they see as her toothless tut-tutting of President Donald Trump, whom she is invariably “concerned” about. And she’s been out-raised $63 million to $25 million by her Democratic opponent, Sara Gideon, the speaker of the state House. Collins’ biggest problem this year, however, may not be Gideon or the out-of-state donors eager to send her a message, but rather the shifting ground under her feet. She is confronting a state, sharply cleaved by region and class, that would have been politically unrecognizable to her predecessors; an increasingly alien party overtaken by a president who demands unflinching loyalty; and, perhaps most daunting of all, a polarized political culture that elevates tribalism and national issues over the bipartisanship and pork-barreling that she has always pursued. “I don’t know if people respond as well to that anymore,” conceded former Sen. William S. Cohen of Maine, a moderate Republican whom Collins succeeded in the Senate after working for him as a young staff member. “Therein lies the challenge of being somebody in the middle.” Collins is the only Republican senator on the ballot this year who has not endorsed Trump. In an interview on her campaign bus, she acknowledged momentarily considering running this year as an independent — “it crossed my mind,” she said — but was quick to note that she couldn’t easily abandon “the New England brand of Republicanism.” It’s a dying breed. Collins is the only remaining Republican member of Congress from New England. Equally endangered, though, are any senators who can win reelection when their party’s nominee is soundly defeated in the state. Trump is expected to be competitive only in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, which he won in 2016, and even there polls suggest that Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee, has an edge. In 1984, when Ronald Reagan won a 49-state landslide, Democrats still netted two Senate seats. And even as recently as 2008, Republicans like Collins were winning reelection in blue states while Democratic senators were cruising in red ones like South Dakota and West Virginia. By 2016, though, the results of every Senate race mirrored the state’s preference in the presidential race. Now Collins is no more likely to outrun Trump by 20 points, as she did John McCain in 2008, than Maine is to embrace crab over lobster as its crustacean of choice. Her argument, though, is that there are exceptions to this era of polarization, and that well-known lawmakers in lightly populated states can overcome the partisan tide. Sens. Jon Tester of Montana and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, for example, both won as Democrats in Republican-leaning states just two years ago. “There’s a lot of parallels,” Collins said. “I still believe that most voters want problems solved and that they’re put off by this us-against-them tribalism.” Listening to Collins kick off her statewide bus tour in Bangor was like stepping into a political time machine. She drew applause after trumpeting her record as the most bipartisan senator, noted that she had never missed a floor vote and bragged about the federal dollars she had delivered for new breakwaters in small communities. Then she delivered the finale: “With your help, when I’m reelected, a year later I become the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee,” she announced. The pitch resonated with some supporters, but even they were self-aware about the dated nature of Collins’ appeal. “I guess I’m a dinosaur in that I appreciate her centrist views and also I appreciate that she’s been doing this a long time and has ranking positions on a lot of important committees,” said Janna Jensen of nearby Brewer. “I don’t know how many people value that.” A New York Times-Siena College survey last month pointed to the limitations of localism — and that was before the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg elevated the Supreme Court and issues like abortion rights. Fifty percent of Mainers said national issues, like which party controls the Senate, were most important to their Senate vote, while 41% said local matters, such as who can do more for Maine, were paramount. A Rhode Island native, as Collins delights in noting, Gideon has made health care the centerpiece of her campaign, even more than Collins’ vote on Kavanaugh.During her time in the Legislature, the Democrat pushed to expand Medicaidin the state, clashing with former Gov. Paul LePage, a Republican, on the issue.As much as any individual policy issue, though, Gideon’s core message is that a vote for Collins is a vote to keep Republicans in control of the Senate. “As long as Susan Collins is elected again to the United States Senate, Mitch McConnell will again likely be the Senate majority leader,” Gideon told attendees at a supper near Lewiston last month. She repeated a version of that line in a brief interview afterward, and grew slightly defensive when that was pointed out. “I don’t walk around talking about Mitch McConnell all the time,” she said, before retreating to a talking point about what Mainers focus on “when they sit down at their kitchen table.” Yet Gideon was more candid at the end of the conversation, when asked if she was happy with the Senate contest becoming nationalized. “We are where we are in this country,” she said. And Collins is where she is, in the dwindling middle between a party that loves Trump and one that loathes him. The most frequently heard criticism of her is that she has changed, and has betrayed her moderate roots. Gideon has encouraged this sentiment and, when asked what she had in mind, cited Collins’ support for the 2017 Republican tax cuts. Yet Collins also supported George W. Bush’s similarly high-end tax cuts, just as she backed his nominees to the Supreme Court. What Maine voters often mean when they say Collins has changed, though, is that the Republican Party has changed — and by that they mean Trump. “The party has moved right,” said Carl Bucciantini, a retired teacher who came to hear Gideon. “It was conservative under Reagan, conservative under the Bushes and now it’s just crazy.” Collins continues to dodge the question of how she’ll vote for president, but she said last month that she would probably avoid Trump if he campaigned in Maine. In the same interview, conducted before the death of Ginsburg, Collins said she would oppose filling a Supreme Court vacancy in October. Since the senator reaffirmed that view after Ginsburg’s death, Trump has repeatedly criticized Collins. “I think that Susan Collins is going to be hurt very badly — her people aren’t going to take this,” the president predicted in September, before heckling her on Twitter last week for opposing the hasty court nomination. Pressed as to why she never fully broke with Trump the same way that her heroine, former Maine Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, had confronted Joseph McCarthy, Collins recalled that she had helped torpedo the effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act and parted ways with the president on issues like his attempt to use military money for a border wall. “I have had so many Margaret Chase Smith moments,” she said. The more persuasive answer, though, came from a supporter at the bus tour introduction who loathes Trump but said Collins was caught in a political vise. “She can’t,” said the supporter, Kathy Anderson, when asked why Collins wouldn’t condemn Trump. “Look at the demographics here.” Maine has always been split between its more affluent coastline and its blue-collar interior. But the political and social gap has widened even further in recent years. “A lot of the people down here are more connected to Napa Valley than they are Penobscot Valley,” said John Baldacci, a former Democratic governor of the state, who grew up in Bangor and now works in Portland. The influx of transplants along the Maine coast and the migration of working-class whites into the Republican Party under Trump and LePage, who called himself “Trump before Trump,” have upended the state’s politics. Perhaps most significant, and for Collins most threatening, LePage’s consecutive plurality victories prompted Maine to enact ranked-choice voting. In this system, voters rank their preference on the ballot so that those who receive few first-place votes are eliminated and the eventual winner garners a majority. This means that the votes of those supporting a liberal independent candidate, Lisa Savage, can ultimately go to Gideon if Savage’s backers list Gideon as their second choice. It’s a significant shift in a state with a long tradition of independence. Maine has elected two unaffiliated governors in the last half-century and in 1992 handed Ross Perot more than 30% of the vote, his best showing of any state. Now, though, it has the same red-and-blue divide as the rest of the country — and the old outlines of its political map have been redrawn. Republicans used to run up some of their best margins in wealthy enclaves along the Atlantic, while Democrats consistently fared best in immigrant-heavy and union-organized mill towns farther inland. Maps from the last two major elections, the 2016 presidential contest and the 2018 governor’s race, reveal a near-unbroken stretch of Democratic blue up the Atlantic Coast from Kittery to Bar Harbor. There are effectively two states — one working class and more pro-Trump, and the other more upscale and deeply contemptuous of the president — that Collins must bridge. They can be seen in the Trump lawn signs sprouting up across inland Maine and the ubiquity of Biden signs nearly anywhere saltwater is in the air. Back on Collins’ bus, she concluded an interview by recalling that in 2008 she “only lost eight communities in the entire state.” But once she stepped into the office of an oil heating company to address employees, she returned to the present. “The country is so polarized and Maine is, too, unfortunately,” Collins said.

Susan Collins hasn’t changed much, but Maine has

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United States President Donald Trump announced Friday that Sudan would normalise relations with Israel. This is being seen as a new diplomatic coup for him days before US presidential election.

Trump announced the agreement by Sudan's year-old civilian-backed government moments after he formally moved to end the nation's designation of a state sponsor of terrorism, which was a major goal for Khartoum.

According to AFP, reporters were escorted into the Oval Office where Trump was on speakerphone with Sudan's leadership and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a close ally of the embattled Republican president.

"We are expanding their circle of peace so rapidly with your leadership," Netanyahu was heard saying.

Trump said: "There are many, many more coming."

"Sudan and Israel have agreed to the normalisation of relations -- another major step toward building peace in the Middle East with another nation joining the Abraham Accords" that involve Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, Trump aide Judd Deere wrote on Twitter.

The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed an accord at the White House last month to normalise relations with Israel but Sudan is arguably more significant as an Arab nation that has been at war with Israel.

 
Trump had announced his plan to delist Sudan on Monday through Twitter. But in the days before he formally took the move, Israel sent a delegation to Khartoum to discuss normalisation.

Trump, who is trailing in the polls ahead of the November 3 vote, has used his leverage over Sudan to press for recognition of Israel.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo voiced hope on Wednesday that Sudan would "promptly" recognise the Jewish state -- a major cause for Trump's evangelical Christian base.

As part of the deal to get off the terror blacklist, the White House said that Sudan's transitional government had deposited $335 million to compensate survivors and family members of anti-US attacks that took place when former dictator Omar al-Bashir welcomed Al-Qaeda.

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United States President Donald Trump announced Friday that Sudan would normalise relations with Israel. This is being seen as a new diplomatic coup for him days before US presidential election.

United States President Donald Trump announced Friday that Sudan would normalise relations with Israel. This is being seen as a new diplomatic coup for him days before US presidential election. Trump announced the agreement by Sudan's year-old civilian-backed government moments after he formally moved to end the nation's designation of a state sponsor of terrorism, which was a major goal for Khartoum. According to AFP, reporters were escorted into the Oval Office where Trump was on speakerphone with Sudan's leadership and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a close ally of the embattled Republican president. "We are expanding their circle of peace so rapidly with your leadership," Netanyahu was heard saying. Trump said: "There are many, many more coming." "Sudan and Israel have agreed to the normalisation of relations -- another major step toward building peace in the Middle East with another nation joining the Abraham Accords" that involve Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, Trump aide Judd Deere wrote on Twitter. The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed an accord at the White House last month to normalise relations with Israel but Sudan is arguably more significant as an Arab nation that has been at war with Israel. Trump had announced his plan to delist Sudan on Monday through Twitter. But in the days before he formally took the move, Israel sent a delegation to Khartoum to discuss normalisation. Trump, who is trailing in the polls ahead of the November 3 vote, has used his leverage over Sudan to press for recognition of Israel. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo voiced hope on Wednesday that Sudan would "promptly" recognise the Jewish state -- a major cause for Trump's evangelical Christian base. As part of the deal to get off the terror blacklist, the White House said that Sudan's transitional government had deposited $335 million to compensate survivors and family members of anti-US attacks that took place when former dictator Omar al-Bashir welcomed Al-Qaeda.

Sudan to normalise relations with Israel, Trump announces

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The Louisiana National Guard was called in to stop a series of cyberattacks aimed at small government offices across the state in recent weeks, according to two people with knowledge of the events, highlighting the cyber threat facing local governments in the run up to the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

The situation in Louisiana follows a similar case in Washington state, according to a cybersecurity consultant familiar with the matter, where hackers infected some government offices with a type of malware known for deploying ransomware, which locks up systems and demands payment to regain access.

Senior U.S. security officials have warned&nbsp;since at least 2019 that ransomware poses a risk to the U.S. election, namely that an attack against certain state government offices around the election could disrupt systems needed to administer aspects of the vote.

It is unclear if the hackers sought to target systems tied to the election in Louisiana or were simply hoping for a payday. Yet the attacks raised alarms because of the potential harm it could have led to and due to evidence suggesting a sophisticated hacking group was involved.

Experts investigating the Louisiana incidents found a tool used by the hackers that was previously linked to a group associated with the North Korean government, according to a person familiar with the investigation.

That tool was described to Reuters as a remote access trojan, or RAT, used to infiltrate computer networks. But cybersecurity analysts who have examined this RAT - known as “KimJongRat” - say some of its code had been publicized in a computer virus repository, where hackers could copy it; making attribution to North Korea less certain.

While staff at several government offices in northern Louisiana were successfully compromised as part of the campaign, according to the two people familiar with the incident response, the cyberattack was stopped in its early stages before significant harm was done.

The Louisiana National Guard declined to comment on the incidents. A spokesman for the Louisiana State Police said they were called in to investigate the cyberattacks, but declined further comment. The Governor`s office said they could not comment on an ongoing investigation.

Tyler Brey, a spokesman for the Louisiana Secretary of State`s office, said Louisiana is a “top down state,” where election data is centrally stored at the secretary of state’s office, which can make it easier for election officials to recover from cyberattacks.

One person familiar with the events said they assessed the hacker’s objective was to infect computers with ransomware, but added that it was difficult to determine because the attack was stopped in its early phases.

If so, Louisiana wouldn`t be the first. Over the last year, several U.S. cities have been victimized by ransomware, including: incidents in Baltimore, Maryland, and Durham, North Carolina.

THE BIG QUESTION

Jen Miller Osborn, deputy director of threat intelligence for U.S. cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks, tracked a hacking group last year that used KimJongRat. She said it would be “atypical” for the group she’s studied to conduct a cyber operation for financial gain.

A prior cybersecurity research report in 2013 by Luxembourg firm iTrust Consulting noted that KimJongRat was written with Korean computer code which carried references to the North Korean leader’s family members.

Emotet, an increasingly common trojan often used against banks, was also deployed by the attackers and found on computers in Louisiana. When staff were hacked, their email accounts would sometimes be co-opted by the hackers to send malware to other colleagues.

On October 6, the Homeland Security Department`s cybersecurity division, known as CISA, published an alert saying Emotet was being used to target numerous local government offices across the country.

In recent cases where cybercriminals have gone after local government offices as the election approaches, like in Washington, U.S. officials along with technology companies such as Microsoft Corp are racing to better understand if the hackers share connections with foreign intelligence agencies from Russia, Iran, China and North Korea.

“It`s a very interesting question and something we are digging into and trying to find data, information, and intelligence that would help us understand that better,” Microsoft Vice President Tom Burt said in a recent interview.

“There are a small number of criminal groups who are responsible for the majority of the ransomware attacks and so understanding who they are, how they’re organized, who they work with, where they are operating from, is something we’re working on," Burt added.

Microsoft is among a select group of cybersecurity companies helping respond to the attacks in Washington, where they`ve offered cybersecurity protection software for free to local government officials until the election, according to a person familiar with their response.

A Microsoft spokesperson declined to comment on the company`s work there.

The Louisiana National Guard was called in to stop a series of cyberattacks aimed at small government offices across the state in recent weeks, according to two people with knowledge of the events, highlighting the cyber threat facing local governments in the run up to the 2020 U.

The Louisiana National Guard was called in to stop a series of cyberattacks aimed at small government offices across the state in recent weeks, according to two people with knowledge of the events, highlighting the cyber threat facing local governments in the run up to the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The situation in Louisiana follows a similar case in Washington state, according to a cybersecurity consultant familiar with the matter, where hackers infected some government offices with a type of malware known for deploying ransomware, which locks up systems and demands payment to regain access. Senior U.S. security officials have warned since at least 2019 that ransomware poses a risk to the U.S. election, namely that an attack against certain state government offices around the election could disrupt systems needed to administer aspects of the vote. It is unclear if the hackers sought to target systems tied to the election in Louisiana or were simply hoping for a payday. Yet the attacks raised alarms because of the potential harm it could have led to and due to evidence suggesting a sophisticated hacking group was involved. Experts investigating the Louisiana incidents found a tool used by the hackers that was previously linked to a group associated with the North Korean government, according to a person familiar with the investigation. That tool was described to Reuters as a remote access trojan, or RAT, used to infiltrate computer networks. But cybersecurity analysts who have examined this RAT - known as “KimJongRat” - say some of its code had been publicized in a computer virus repository, where hackers could copy it; making attribution to North Korea less certain. While staff at several government offices in northern Louisiana were successfully compromised as part of the campaign, according to the two people familiar with the incident response, the cyberattack was stopped in its early stages before significant harm was done. The Louisiana National Guard declined to comment on the incidents. A spokesman for the Louisiana State Police said they were called in to investigate the cyberattacks, but declined further comment. The Governor`s office said they could not comment on an ongoing investigation. Tyler Brey, a spokesman for the Louisiana Secretary of State`s office, said Louisiana is a “top down state,” where election data is centrally stored at the secretary of state’s office, which can make it easier for election officials to recover from cyberattacks. One person familiar with the events said they assessed the hacker’s objective was to infect computers with ransomware, but added that it was difficult to determine because the attack was stopped in its early phases. If so, Louisiana wouldn`t be the first. Over the last year, several U.S. cities have been victimized by ransomware, including: incidents in Baltimore, Maryland, and Durham, North Carolina. THE BIG QUESTION Jen Miller Osborn, deputy director of threat intelligence for U.S. cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks, tracked a hacking group last year that used KimJongRat. She said it would be “atypical” for the group she’s studied to conduct a cyber operation for financial gain. A prior cybersecurity research report in 2013 by Luxembourg firm iTrust Consulting noted that KimJongRat was written with Korean computer code which carried references to the North Korean leader’s family members. Emotet, an increasingly common trojan often used against banks, was also deployed by the attackers and found on computers in Louisiana. When staff were hacked, their email accounts would sometimes be co-opted by the hackers to send malware to other colleagues. On October 6, the Homeland Security Department`s cybersecurity division, known as CISA, published an alert saying Emotet was being used to target numerous local government offices across the country. In recent cases where cybercriminals have gone after local government offices as the election approaches, like in Washington, U.S. officials along with technology companies such as Microsoft Corp are racing to better understand if the hackers share connections with foreign intelligence agencies from Russia, Iran, China and North Korea. “It`s a very interesting question and something we are digging into and trying to find data, information, and intelligence that would help us understand that better,” Microsoft Vice President Tom Burt said in a recent interview. “There are a small number of criminal groups who are responsible for the majority of the ransomware attacks and so understanding who they are, how they’re organized, who they work with, where they are operating from, is something we’re working on," Burt added. Microsoft is among a select group of cybersecurity companies helping respond to the attacks in Washington, where they`ve offered cybersecurity protection software for free to local government officials until the election, according to a person familiar with their response. A Microsoft spokesperson declined to comment on the company`s work there.

National Guard called in to thwart cyberattack in Louisiana weeks before election

More than 50 million Americans have voted early in the White House race pitting President Donald Trump against Democrat Joe Biden, a group monitoring balloting said Friday.

Voters are smashing records for casting ballots ahead of Election Day on November 3 in order to avoid crowded polling centers and long lines out of fear of catching the coronavirus.

The tally by the US Elections Project, run by the University of Florida, said more than 35 million people have now voted by mail and more than 15 million in person by leaving their ballots in designated drop boxes.

The tally already surpasses all 47 million votes cast early in the 2016 election, and there is still more than a week to go.

Early voting rules vary by state. One of the most populous, New York, gets started only on Saturday, so that will increase the tally even more.

Democrats are urging people to vote early as a precaution, and in some cases long lines have formed at places where voters can drop off their ballots.

Without providing evidence, Trump, who is trailing Biden in national polls and in key battleground states, has insisted that mail-in voting is prone to fraud.

More than 50 million Americans have voted early in the White House race pitting President Donald Trump against Democrat Joe Biden, a group monitoring balloting said Friday.

More than 50 million Americans have voted early in the White House race pitting President Donald Trump against Democrat Joe Biden, a group monitoring balloting said Friday. Voters are smashing records for casting ballots ahead of Election Day on November 3 in order to avoid crowded polling centers and long lines out of fear of catching the coronavirus. The tally by the US Elections Project, run by the University of Florida, said more than 35 million people have now voted by mail and more than 15 million in person by leaving their ballots in designated drop boxes. The tally already surpasses all 47 million votes cast early in the 2016 election, and there is still more than a week to go. Early voting rules vary by state. One of the most populous, New York, gets started only on Saturday, so that will increase the tally even more. Democrats are urging people to vote early as a precaution, and in some cases long lines have formed at places where voters can drop off their ballots. Without providing evidence, Trump, who is trailing Biden in national polls and in key battleground states, has insisted that mail-in voting is prone to fraud.

More than 50 million have voted early in US election: monitor

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Infuriated by Barack Obama's triggering rally address, Donald Trump attacked his predecessor in his campaign in the state of North Carolina. Trump portrayed himself as a Lone Warrior against the Democrats. WION reports.

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Barack Obama headlined a drive-in rally in Philadelphia for his mate Joe Biden. In a scathing rebuke backed by sarcasm, The former U.S. President ripped Donald Trump apart for a series old & new issues. WION reports.

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A 19-year-old man with a van full of guns and explosives has been charged by feds for plotting the&nbsp;assassination of&nbsp;Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.

It comes on the same day as the last presidential debate and with less than two weeks to go for the US election 2020 on November 3.

Alexander Hillel&nbsp;Treisman&nbsp;had posted a&nbsp;meme captioned "should I kill Joe Biden?"

The feds believe that it was not an idle threat as&nbsp;Treisman had conducted internet searches seeking information about Biden's home address, state gun laws, and night vision goggles.&nbsp;

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He was arrested&nbsp;after a search of his abandoned white Ford van in Kannapolis, North Carolina revealed several weapons including an AR-15 style semi-automatic rifle and a canister of explosive material.

The search also found&nbsp;books on bomb-making, $509,000 in US currency, and drawings of swastikas and planes crashing into buildings, according to the October 6 filing in the US District Court for the Middle District, North Carolina.

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The currency was believed to be&nbsp;Treisman's inheritance, officials said in the filing.&nbsp;

Following his arrest, the Federal Bureau of Investigation searched his phone, computers, and other devices and found 1,248 videos and 6,721 images of child pornography content, according to federal prosecutors..

He also purchased an AR-15 in New Hampshire and traveled to a Wendy's fast-food restaurant within four miles of Biden's home and wrote a checklist note ending with "execute," according to testimony by officers in the court filing, first reported by the Daily Beast on Thursday.

After his arrest the "defendant disclosed that he has an interest in terrorist incidents and mass shootings," and had traveled across the country to buy a variety of firearms, the document said.

Treisman&nbsp;was arrested on May 28 and on September 28 was indicted by a federal grand jury for possession of child pornography, it said.

Treisman&nbsp;did not have any prior criminal history.

ABC News said it was not clear why&nbsp;Treisman&nbsp;has so far just been charged with possession of child pornography.

A 19-year-old man with a van full of guns and explosives has been charged by feds for plotting the assassination of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. It comes on the same day as the last presidential debate and with less than two weeks to go for the US election 2020 on November 3.

A 19-year-old man with a van full of guns and explosives has been charged by feds for plotting the assassination of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. It comes on the same day as the last presidential debate and with less than two weeks to go for the US election 2020 on November 3. Alexander Hillel Treisman had posted a meme captioned "should I kill Joe Biden?" The feds believe that it was not an idle threat as Treisman had conducted internet searches seeking information about Biden's home address, state gun laws, and night vision goggles. Also read: In calmer debate, Biden and Trump offer sharply divergent visions for nation He was arrested after a search of his abandoned white Ford van in Kannapolis, North Carolina revealed several weapons including an AR-15 style semi-automatic rifle and a canister of explosive material. The search also found books on bomb-making, $509,000 in US currency, and drawings of swastikas and planes crashing into buildings, according to the October 6 filing in the US District Court for the Middle District, North Carolina. The currency was believed to be Treisman's inheritance, officials said in the filing. Following his arrest, the Federal Bureau of Investigation searched his phone, computers, and other devices and found 1,248 videos and 6,721 images of child pornography content, according to federal prosecutors.. He also purchased an AR-15 in New Hampshire and traveled to a Wendy's fast-food restaurant within four miles of Biden's home and wrote a checklist note ending with "execute," according to testimony by officers in the court filing, first reported by the Daily Beast on Thursday. After his arrest the "defendant disclosed that he has an interest in terrorist incidents and mass shootings," and had traveled across the country to buy a variety of firearms, the document said. Treisman was arrested on May 28 and on September 28 was indicted by a federal grand jury for possession of child pornography, it said. Treisman did not have any prior criminal history. ABC News said it was not clear why Treisman has so far just been charged with possession of child pornography.

US election 2020: 19-year-old charged for plotting the assassination of Joe Biden

United States President Donald Trump abruptly left a solo interview with CBS News’ -- “60 Minutes”, and did not return for an appearance he was scheduled to shoot with Vice-President Mike Pence.

Trump sat down with host Lesley Stahl for only 45 minutes on Tuesday before leaving abruptly the interview. He later told the network he believed they had enough material to use.

Later, Trump posted on Twitter a clip of the reporter at the White House attacking her for not wearing a face mask.

“I am pleased to inform you that, for the sake of accuracy in reporting, I am considering posting my interview with Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes, PRIOR TO AIRTIME! “ he added.&nbsp; 
“This will be done so that everybody can get a glimpse of what a FAKE and BIASED interview is all about ... “ Trump tweeted.

According to CNN, however, Stahl had a mask on from the time she entered the White House to when the interview started. The image from the tweet only showed her standing with her producers before she went back to her belongings to wear the mask.

Along with Trump and Pence, former Vice President Joe Biden and California Senator Kamala Harris also gave interviews with CBS and all four are scheduled to appear in a programme on Sunday.&nbsp;

Trump and Pence were scheduled to appear on the Sunday programme together, as they did four years ago for a walk and talk session before Trump decided to end the interview without reason. Biden and Harris, however, filmed their interviews separately.

Polling in states where Trump won in 2016, shows Biden to be ahead this time. Trump admitted that he was upset while standing on the tarmac in Arizona on Monday.

He has, to this end, demanded his attorney general to work “fast” to investigate the unfounded accusations against Biden before the elections. After the panel organising Thursday’s debate announced that the candidates’ microphones would be muted for certain parts of the event, Trump accused them of bias.

United States President Donald Trump abruptly left a solo interview with CBS News’ -- “60 Minutes”, and did not return for an appearance he was scheduled to shoot with Vice-President Mike Pence.

United States President Donald Trump abruptly left a solo interview with CBS News’ -- “60 Minutes”, and did not return for an appearance he was scheduled to shoot with Vice-President Mike Pence. Trump sat down with host Lesley Stahl for only 45 minutes on Tuesday before leaving abruptly the interview. He later told the network he believed they had enough material to use. Later, Trump posted on Twitter a clip of the reporter at the White House attacking her for not wearing a face mask. “I am pleased to inform you that, for the sake of accuracy in reporting, I am considering posting my interview with Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes, PRIOR TO AIRTIME! “ he added. “This will be done so that everybody can get a glimpse of what a FAKE and BIASED interview is all about ... “ Trump tweeted. According to CNN, however, Stahl had a mask on from the time she entered the White House to when the interview started. The image from the tweet only showed her standing with her producers before she went back to her belongings to wear the mask. Along with Trump and Pence, former Vice President Joe Biden and California Senator Kamala Harris also gave interviews with CBS and all four are scheduled to appear in a programme on Sunday. Trump and Pence were scheduled to appear on the Sunday programme together, as they did four years ago for a walk and talk session before Trump decided to end the interview without reason. Biden and Harris, however, filmed their interviews separately. Polling in states where Trump won in 2016, shows Biden to be ahead this time. Trump admitted that he was upset while standing on the tarmac in Arizona on Monday. He has, to this end, demanded his attorney general to work “fast” to investigate the unfounded accusations against Biden before the elections. After the panel organising Thursday’s debate announced that the candidates’ microphones would be muted for certain parts of the event, Trump accused them of bias.

Trump abruptly leaves a 60-min interview in only 45 mins

NBC News journalist Kristen&nbsp;Welker&nbsp;has been labeled the ''clear'' and ''obvious winner'' of the final&nbsp;presidential debate between Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden.

Welker has been lauded online for her performance as a moderator for ensuring the candidates did not exceed their time limits and not allowing them to talk over her.

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The 44-year-old was&nbsp;born in Philadelphia and studied at Harvard before becoming a reporter.

There have been more than 125,000 tweets about the NBC journalist, who became only the second black woman to moderate a presidential debate alone, 28 years after ABC News journalist Carole Simpson became the first in 1992.

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Carol Simpson (1992) and Kristen Welker (2020). Wild to believe that there's a whole generation of voters (millennial and Gen-Z) who weren't alive during the 92' town hall. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/debates?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#debates</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Debate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Debate</a> <a href="https://t.co/bzFiIqyOy6">pic.twitter.com/bzFiIqyOy6</a>
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trump cleared the bar for himself, that is, he didn’t rant and rave again. 
 
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no game changers here in either direction means, i think, that this is a good result for biden.
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Welker, known for her calm demeanor and incisive questioning, was&nbsp;helped by the muting of the candidates' microphones when they are not answering questions.

Welker was expected to bring order to the showdown in Nashville, Tennessee, after Fox News anchor Chris Wallace was criticised for presiding over a hard-to-watch bickering fest between the septuagenarians last time out.

Following the debate, when Wallace&nbsp;was asked on air what he thought of the tenor of the final debate moderated by Welker. “First of all, I’m jealous,” he said.

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Welker&nbsp;had&nbsp;chosen the six topics for discussion, as tradition dictates. They were: fighting COVID-19, American families, race, climate change, and national security.

Before the debate,&nbsp;President Trump and his entourage had accused her of&nbsp;belonging to the left-wing&nbsp;saying that the parents of the first woman of color to host a presidential debate since 1992 were fervent Democrats.

Welker&nbsp;was registered as a Democrat in 2012 but is not politically affiliated today and has never donated to any party.

NBC News journalist Kristen Welker has been labeled the ''clear'' and ''obvious winner'' of the final presidential debate between Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden.

NBC News journalist Kristen Welker has been labeled the ''clear'' and ''obvious winner'' of the final presidential debate between Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden. Welker has been lauded online for her performance as a moderator for ensuring the candidates did not exceed their time limits and not allowing them to talk over her. Also read: US election 2020: Who is Kristen Welker, moderator of last presidential debate? The 44-year-old was born in Philadelphia and studied at Harvard before becoming a reporter. There have been more than 125,000 tweets about the NBC journalist, who became only the second black woman to moderate a presidential debate alone, 28 years after ABC News journalist Carole Simpson became the first in 1992. #Reminder: Only two black women have ever hosted a general election presidential debate. Carol Simpson (1992) and Kristen Welker (2020). Wild to believe that there's a whole generation of voters (millennial and Gen-Z) who weren't alive during the 92' town hall. #debates #Debate pic.twitter.com/bzFiIqyOy6 — Beatrice-Elizabeth Peterson (@MissBeaE) October 23, 2020 × winner of the debate is obviously kristen welker trump cleared the bar for himself, that is, he didn’t rant and rave again. biden had a very solid performance. no game changers here in either direction means, i think, that this is a good result for biden. — b-boy boooo-eebaisse (@jbouie) October 23, 2020 × Welker, known for her calm demeanor and incisive questioning, was helped by the muting of the candidates' microphones when they are not answering questions. Welker was expected to bring order to the showdown in Nashville, Tennessee, after Fox News anchor Chris Wallace was criticised for presiding over a hard-to-watch bickering fest between the septuagenarians last time out. Following the debate, when Wallace was asked on air what he thought of the tenor of the final debate moderated by Welker. “First of all, I’m jealous,” he said. The winner of tonight’s debate is none other than @kwelkernbc. This debate felt normal. #Debates2020 — Omar Jimenez (@OmarJimenez) October 23, 2020 × Welker had chosen the six topics for discussion, as tradition dictates. They were: fighting COVID-19, American families, race, climate change, and national security. Before the debate, President Trump and his entourage had accused her of belonging to the left-wing saying that the parents of the first woman of color to host a presidential debate since 1992 were fervent Democrats. Welker was registered as a Democrat in 2012 but is not politically affiliated today and has never donated to any party.

US election 2020: Social media labels presidential debate moderator Kristen Welker as 'clear winner'

Presidential debates in the United States are an interesting event to be a part of. More so when the incumbent president, Donald Trump is participating in it.

At the second debate, conducted on October 22, the mention of Abraham Lincoln's name, however, raised more eyebrows than Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden.

On Thursday night, as the debate turned to a discussion of the Black Lives Matter movement, Biden slammed Trump for his self-praise&nbsp;that said no president since Lincoln has helped Black people more than he has.

"Abraham Lincoln here is one of the most racist presidents we've had in modern history. He pours fuel on every single racist fire. Every single one," Biden said of Trump.

Trump responded: "He made a reference to Abraham Lincoln, where did that come in?"

"You said you're Abraham Lincoln," Biden responded.

"No, no. ... I didn't say 'I'm Abraham Lincoln.' I said, 'Not since Abraham Lincoln has anybody done what I've done for the Black community.'"

Trump has a history of comparing himself to the country's 16th president. Last year, Trump claimed no other president had been treated as badly by the press as he has, including Lincoln.

The 'Abraham Lincoln' moment became one of the hot topics on social media.

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Trump: I’m not Abraham Lincoln. I’m Donald Trump. 
 
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Presidential debates in the United States are an interesting event to be a part of. More so when the incumbent president, Donald Trump is participating in it. At the second debate, conducted on October 22, the mention of Abraham Lincoln's name, however, raised more eyebrows than Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden.

Presidential debates in the United States are an interesting event to be a part of. More so when the incumbent president, Donald Trump is participating in it. At the second debate, conducted on October 22, the mention of Abraham Lincoln's name, however, raised more eyebrows than Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden. On Thursday night, as the debate turned to a discussion of the Black Lives Matter movement, Biden slammed Trump for his self-praise that said no president since Lincoln has helped Black people more than he has. "Abraham Lincoln here is one of the most racist presidents we've had in modern history. He pours fuel on every single racist fire. Every single one," Biden said of Trump. Trump responded: "He made a reference to Abraham Lincoln, where did that come in?" "You said you're Abraham Lincoln," Biden responded. "No, no. ... I didn't say 'I'm Abraham Lincoln.' I said, 'Not since Abraham Lincoln has anybody done what I've done for the Black community.'" Trump has a history of comparing himself to the country's 16th president. Last year, Trump claimed no other president had been treated as badly by the press as he has, including Lincoln. The 'Abraham Lincoln' moment became one of the hot topics on social media. Biden sarcastically refers to Trump as "Abraham Lincoln," and Trump gets confused by it pic.twitter.com/Ogdt1QXf3g — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 23, 2020 × Abraham Lincoln is watching tonight: pic.twitter.com/wgJpBKTN2l — Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) October 23, 2020 × Biden: Abraham Lincoln over here... Trump: I’m not Abraham Lincoln. I’m Donald Trump. Biden: Yeah we know bro. — Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) October 23, 2020 × Fact Check: Donald Trump is correct when he says he’s not Abraham Lincoln — The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) October 23, 2020 ×

'Abraham Lincoln here...': Trump misses Biden's joke at presidential debate

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US President Donald Trump on Thursday described the air in India as "filthy" as he denounced Democratic rival Joe Biden's plans to tackle climate change.

At their second and final presidential debate, Trump renewed his criticism that action on climate change was unfair to the United States.

"Look at China, how filthy it is. Look at Russia, look at India -- it's filthy. The air is filthy," Trump said at the debate in Nashville.

This came despite Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi having shared a friendly relationship with the United States.

People -- across India and on the social media -- were surprised, some shocked to see such blatant statements from the American president. They took to Twitter to express the dismay and surprise. A few even said they agreed with Trump.

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116k infants d!ed in India within a month of their birth during the year 2019. That's another thing India tops in. 
 
Filthy air is only called filthy air. 
 
Since Doland said it out hope that hurts at the right places.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FilthyIndia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FilthyIndia</a> <a href="https://t.co/vaPJr6HnoC">pic.twitter.com/vaPJr6HnoC</a>
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Delhi's Air Quality Index is 567 
 
Washington DC's Air Quality Index is 25 
 
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And, we are to blame. We need to change our ways. 
 
Don't give "pollution less" gyaan only on Diwali. Follow that lifestyle all through the year.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FilthyIndia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FilthyIndia</a> <a href="https://t.co/4birxOo5QM">pic.twitter.com/4birxOo5QM</a>
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At the first presidential debate, Trump also spoke critically of India, questioning its coronavirus data amid criticism of his handling of the pandemic.

Trump made the remarks despite having pulled the United States out of the Paris climate accord, which aims to cap global warming "well below" two degrees Celsius.

The planet has already been warmed by around one degree Celsius (34 degrees Fahrenheit) from pre-industrial levels, enough to boost the intensity of deadly heat waves, droughts and tropical storms.

Trump's remarks come days before Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark Esper visit New Delhi for talks on building the growing US-India partnership.

US President Donald Trump on Thursday described the air in India as "filthy" as he denounced Democratic rival Joe Biden's plans to tackle climate change. At their second and final presidential debate, Trump renewed his criticism that action on climate change was unfair to the United States.

US President Donald Trump on Thursday described the air in India as "filthy" as he denounced Democratic rival Joe Biden's plans to tackle climate change. At their second and final presidential debate, Trump renewed his criticism that action on climate change was unfair to the United States. "Look at China, how filthy it is. Look at Russia, look at India -- it's filthy. The air is filthy," Trump said at the debate in Nashville. This came despite Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi having shared a friendly relationship with the United States. People -- across India and on the social media -- were surprised, some shocked to see such blatant statements from the American president. They took to Twitter to express the dismay and surprise. A few even said they agreed with Trump. #FilthyIndia is Trending @narendramodi ur friend @realDonaldTrump is not taking ur friendship seriously pic.twitter.com/b0dDlZznvn — Deepanshu (@Deepanshu929) October 23, 2020 × 116k infants d!ed in India within a month of their birth during the year 2019. That's another thing India tops in. Filthy air is only called filthy air. Since Doland said it out hope that hurts at the right places.#FilthyIndia pic.twitter.com/vaPJr6HnoC — Beeno🌼💖 Tesla's Coil⚡ (@RebelGeek1111) October 23, 2020 × This is India!! Even after 7 decades, 90 % still does not have access to toileting facilities🤧🤧🤧#FilthyIndia pic.twitter.com/kffPj5SbND — Dr Fatima K - PTI (FOLLOW 4 ANY MEDICAL ADVICE ) (@p4pakipower) October 23, 2020 × Delhi's Air Quality Index is 567 Washington DC's Air Quality Index is 25 Pic 1: Delhi Pic 2: Washington DC And, we are to blame. We need to change our ways. Don't give "pollution less" gyaan only on Diwali. Follow that lifestyle all through the year.#FilthyIndia pic.twitter.com/4birxOo5QM — Vaidehi 🇮🇳 🕉️ (@dharmicverangna) October 23, 2020 × We don't mind keeping our country filthy, we just don't like being called that by someone else. If you don't want to be called filthy, clean up!! Remember you needed a PM to talk from the Red Fort on 15th August 2014 to tell you we needed toilets.#FilthyIndia — Just B (@JustPunforfun) October 23, 2020 × At the first presidential debate, Trump also spoke critically of India, questioning its coronavirus data amid criticism of his handling of the pandemic. Trump made the remarks despite having pulled the United States out of the Paris climate accord, which aims to cap global warming "well below" two degrees Celsius. The planet has already been warmed by around one degree Celsius (34 degrees Fahrenheit) from pre-industrial levels, enough to boost the intensity of deadly heat waves, droughts and tropical storms. Trump's remarks come days before Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark Esper visit New Delhi for talks on building the growing US-India partnership.

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Watch: Final round of presidential debate of the 2020 US election between Donald Trump & Joe Biden

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US Election 2020: Donald Trump, Joe Biden appear for last presidential debate

The Democratic nominee and the&nbsp;former Vice President&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wionews.com/topics/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a>&nbsp;appeared at the&nbsp;final presidential debate of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wionews.com/us-election">US election</a>&nbsp;2020 against&nbsp;the current US President&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wionews.com/topics/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a>.

The debate, which was moderated by <a href="https://www.wionews.com/photos/us-election-2020-who-is-kristen-welker-moderator-of-last-presidential-debate-337231">Kristen Welker</a>, covered wide ranging topics such as Coronavirus, Russian interference, Immigration policies, North Korea and much more.

<a href="https://www.wionews.com/india-news/us-elections-look-at-russia-china-and-india-its-filthy-says-trump-on-carbon-emissions-337317">Also read|&nbsp;US elections: Look at Russia, China and India, it's filthy, says Trump on carbon emissions</a>

Towards the end of the debate, when the moderator told the two leaders “we're running out of time",&nbsp;Joe Biden&nbsp;did something that only one recent US President has done in a Presidential debate: he hurriedly peaked at his wrist watch.

The act is being seen as a repeat of the&nbsp;1992 town hall debate between Bill Clinton, Ross Perot and George H.W. Bush when Bush senior glanced at his wrist watch while Clinton was answering a question posed by an audience member.
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Glancing at the wrist watch in a debate is not considered to be a good move as it often signifies that the person is bored of the discussion. Bush was highly criticised for this move bac in 1992 as it was seen as disrespect for the audience member's questions.

<a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/i-cannot-guarantee-donald-trump-backtracks-on-covid-19-vaccine-joe-biden-slams-his-approach-337283">Also read|&nbsp;'I cannot guarantee': Donald Trump backtracks on COVID-19 vaccine; Joe Biden slams his approach</a>

Biden's move, however, has been seen as an act of confirmation for a statement made by Welker. Many believe Biden was simply reconfirming if the debate was in its last moments or not, like Welker claimed.

However, Trump supporters took over Twitter to mock&nbsp;Biden&nbsp;over this. Calling it 'nap time' and 'time to take his meds'. Some even claimed that&nbsp;Biden&nbsp;checked his watch more than once. However, that has not been proved.

The Democratic nominee and the former Vice President Joe Biden appeared at the final presidential debate of the US election 2020 against the current US President Donald Trump.

The Democratic nominee and the former Vice President Joe Biden appeared at the final presidential debate of the US election 2020 against the current US President Donald Trump. The debate, which was moderated by Kristen Welker, covered wide ranging topics such as Coronavirus, Russian interference, Immigration policies, North Korea and much more. Also read| US elections: Look at Russia, China and India, it's filthy, says Trump on carbon emissions Towards the end of the debate, when the moderator told the two leaders “we're running out of time", Joe Biden did something that only one recent US President has done in a Presidential debate: he hurriedly peaked at his wrist watch. The act is being seen as a repeat of the 1992 town hall debate between Bill Clinton, Ross Perot and George H.W. Bush when Bush senior glanced at his wrist watch while Clinton was answering a question posed by an audience member. Glancing at the wrist watch in a debate is not considered to be a good move as it often signifies that the person is bored of the discussion. Bush was highly criticised for this move bac in 1992 as it was seen as disrespect for the audience member's questions. Also read| 'I cannot guarantee': Donald Trump backtracks on COVID-19 vaccine; Joe Biden slams his approach Biden's move, however, has been seen as an act of confirmation for a statement made by Welker. Many believe Biden was simply reconfirming if the debate was in its last moments or not, like Welker claimed. However, Trump supporters took over Twitter to mock Biden over this. Calling it 'nap time' and 'time to take his meds'. Some even claimed that Biden checked his watch more than once. However, that has not been proved.

Another Bush? Joe Biden checks his wrist watch during US Election presidential debate

US President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden squared off against each other in second presidential debate on Friday. This was their last one-on-one debate before November 3 polls.

<h2>Here are some of the&nbsp;quotes from the presidential debate</h2>

On coronavirus pandemic

Donald Trump: "We're fighting it and we're fighting it hard… We’re rounding the corner. It’s going away"

Joe Biden:&nbsp;"This is the same fellow told you this is going to end by Easter last time. This is the same fellow who told you that, don't worry, we're going to end this by the summer. We're about to go into a dark winter, a dark winter, and he has no clear plan."

Joe Biden: "(Trump) says, we're learning to live with it (coronavirus). People are learning to die with it,"

Donald Trump on Dr Fauci: "I think he's a Democrat, but that's OK"

Donald Trump:&nbsp;"I don't know if we're going to have a dark winter, and at all. We're opening up our country. We've learned and studied and understand the disease."

On Russia and Iran

Donald Trump:&nbsp;"You are getting a lot of money from Russia. You owe an explanation to the American people, you have to clean it up,

Joe Biden: "I haven't taken a single penny from any foreign country whatsoever"

Donald Trump:&nbsp;"Joe got three and a half million dollars from Russia,"

Joe Biden: ""Russia does not want me to be elected,"

Donald Trump:&nbsp;&nbsp;"Nobody is tougher on Russia than me,"

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On Affordable healthcare

Donald Trump: "No matter how well you run (the Affordable Care Act), it's no good. What we'd like to do is terminate it. We have the individual mandate done. I don't know that it's going to work. If we don't win (in court) ... we'll have Obamacare but it will be better run."

Donald Trump: "Always protect people with pre-existing conditions"

Joe Biden: "We will make sure we reduce healthcare insurance premiums"

Joe BIden:&nbsp;"I am not against private insurance."

Joe Biden:&nbsp;"Healthcare is not a privilege, it's a right"

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On North Korea

Donald Trump:&nbsp;"When I met with Obama, he said our biggest problem is North Korea. He indicated that we will have a war with North Korea. We have a different kind of relationship with the guy and there is no war. He is not going to do that,"

DonaldTrump: "You know what? North Korea - we're not in a war. We have a good relationship."

Joe Biden: "We had a good relationship with Hitler before he in fact invaded Europe. Come on." 
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On racism

Joe Biden:&nbsp;"There is institutional racism in America"

Donald Trump:&nbsp;"I am the least racist person in this room."

Donald Trump: "He called black community 'super predators'"

Joe Biden: "I did not say anything he is accusing me of"

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On immigration

Donald Trump: "Children are brought here by coyotes and lots of bad people, cartels..We let people in but they have to come in legally."

Joe Biden on children separated at the border: “It makes us a laughingstock and it violates every notion of who we are.” 
 
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<a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/us-election-2020-joe-biden-calls-donald-trumps-immigration-policies-criminal-337306">On Climate change</a>

Donald Trump:&nbsp;"We have the best carbon emission numbers we've had in 35 years under this administration. Look&nbsp;how 'filthy'&nbsp;are Russia and China, look at India...the air is so filthy".

Donald Trump: "We have done an incredible job environmentally"

Donald Trump:&nbsp;"(Wind energy) is very expensive, kills a lot of birds,"

Joe Biden: "Climate change global warming is&nbsp;existential threat to humanity. We have a moral obligation to deal with it"

Donald Trump:&nbsp;"I will not sacrifice tens and millions of jobs, thousands and thousands of companies because of the Paris accords,"

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US President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden squared off against each other in second presidential debate on Friday. This was their last one-on-one debate before November 3 polls.

US President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden squared off against each other in second presidential debate on Friday. This was their last one-on-one debate before November 3 polls. Here are some of the quotes from the presidential debate On coronavirus pandemic Donald Trump: "We're fighting it and we're fighting it hard… We’re rounding the corner. It’s going away" Joe Biden: "This is the same fellow told you this is going to end by Easter last time. This is the same fellow who told you that, don't worry, we're going to end this by the summer. We're about to go into a dark winter, a dark winter, and he has no clear plan." Joe Biden: "(Trump) says, we're learning to live with it (coronavirus). People are learning to die with it," Donald Trump on Dr Fauci: "I think he's a Democrat, but that's OK" Donald Trump: "I don't know if we're going to have a dark winter, and at all. We're opening up our country. We've learned and studied and understand the disease." On Russia and Iran Donald Trump: "You are getting a lot of money from Russia. You owe an explanation to the American people, you have to clean it up, Joe Biden: "I haven't taken a single penny from any foreign country whatsoever" Donald Trump: "Joe got three and a half million dollars from Russia," Joe Biden: ""Russia does not want me to be elected," Donald Trump: "Nobody is tougher on Russia than me," On Affordable healthcare Donald Trump: "No matter how well you run (the Affordable Care Act), it's no good. What we'd like to do is terminate it. We have the individual mandate done. I don't know that it's going to work. If we don't win (in court) ... we'll have Obamacare but it will be better run." Donald Trump: "Always protect people with pre-existing conditions" Joe Biden: "We will make sure we reduce healthcare insurance premiums" Joe BIden: "I am not against private insurance." Joe Biden: "Healthcare is not a privilege, it's a right" On North Korea Donald Trump: "When I met with Obama, he said our biggest problem is North Korea. He indicated that we will have a war with North Korea. We have a different kind of relationship with the guy and there is no war. He is not going to do that," DonaldTrump: "You know what? North Korea - we're not in a war. We have a good relationship." Joe Biden: "We had a good relationship with Hitler before he in fact invaded Europe. Come on." On racism Joe Biden: "There is institutional racism in America" Donald Trump: "I am the least racist person in this room." Donald Trump: "He called black community 'super predators'" Joe Biden: "I did not say anything he is accusing me of" On immigration Donald Trump: "Children are brought here by coyotes and lots of bad people, cartels..We let people in but they have to come in legally." Joe Biden on children separated at the border: “It makes us a laughingstock and it violates every notion of who we are.” Also Read | US election 2020: Joe Biden calls Donald Trump's immigration policies 'criminal' On Climate change Donald Trump: "We have the best carbon emission numbers we've had in 35 years under this administration. Look how 'filthy' are Russia and China, look at India...the air is so filthy". Donald Trump: "We have done an incredible job environmentally" Donald Trump: "(Wind energy) is very expensive, kills a lot of birds," Joe Biden: "Climate change global warming is existential threat to humanity. We have a moral obligation to deal with it" Donald Trump: "I will not sacrifice tens and millions of jobs, thousands and thousands of companies because of the Paris accords,"

US Elections 2020: Quotes from Donald Trump and Joe Biden during the presidential debate

US President is known for his unique stance on various issues. Countless of his quotes have caused an outcry as well as have left people in splits. This happened again during the presidential debate between him and Democratic Party candidate Joe Biden. During the course of the debate, Trump said that wind energy "kills all the birds. Joe Biden gave a chuckle at this bizarre assertion.

Trump said his knew more about wind energy than Joe Biden

"It (wind energy) is very expensive, kills all the birds. It's very intermittent. It has got a lot of problems," said Trump.

He went on to say that the windmills were made in China and Germany and said that the fumes coming out during the manufacturing process "is more than anything we are talking about" with respect to carbon emissions.

"Find me a scientist who says that," Joe Biden said coolly.

Biden underlined that energy sector pertaining to wind and solar were the fastest growing fields that would create new jobs

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"He thinks wind causes cancer, windmills," said Biden in an incredulous tone.

Trump is known for his hawkish views on environmental matters. In past, he has even claimed that climate change and global warming was a "hoax".

He defended his decision to take the US out of Paris accords.

"The Paris accords, I took us out because we were going to have to spend trillions of dollars and we were treated very unfairly," said Trump.

Lashing out at previous administrations, Trump said that they did a great 'disservice' by being part of the treaty and alleged that previous governments were going to take away our businesses.

US President is known for his unique stance on various issues. Countless of his quotes have caused an outcry as well as have left people in splits. This happened again during the presidential debate between him and Democratic Party candidate Joe Biden.

US President is known for his unique stance on various issues. Countless of his quotes have caused an outcry as well as have left people in splits. This happened again during the presidential debate between him and Democratic Party candidate Joe Biden. During the course of the debate, Trump said that wind energy "kills all the birds. Joe Biden gave a chuckle at this bizarre assertion. Trump said his knew more about wind energy than Joe Biden "It (wind energy) is very expensive, kills all the birds. It's very intermittent. It has got a lot of problems," said Trump. He went on to say that the windmills were made in China and Germany and said that the fumes coming out during the manufacturing process "is more than anything we are talking about" with respect to carbon emissions. "Find me a scientist who says that," Joe Biden said coolly. Biden underlined that energy sector pertaining to wind and solar were the fastest growing fields that would create new jobs Also Read | 'I cannot guarantee': Donald Trump backtracks on COVID-19 vaccine; Joe Biden slams his approach "He thinks wind causes cancer, windmills," said Biden in an incredulous tone. Trump is known for his hawkish views on environmental matters. In past, he has even claimed that climate change and global warming was a "hoax". He defended his decision to take the US out of Paris accords. "The Paris accords, I took us out because we were going to have to spend trillions of dollars and we were treated very unfairly," said Trump. Lashing out at previous administrations, Trump said that they did a great 'disservice' by being part of the treaty and alleged that previous governments were going to take away our businesses.

US Elections 2020: Wind energy kills birds, says Donald Trump during presidential debate

Before the president’s last, best chance to change the trajectory of his reelection bid, his mandate Thursday evening was at once clear and complicated: Be less like Donald Trump.

It can be said that he tried, by his standard. He succeeded at various points in acting like the type of person he claims to disdain: a typical politician in a debate. He spoke with an inside voice while saluting his own pandemic response. He interrupted far less. He thanked the moderator for letting him chime in and did not sound sarcastic while doing so.

And it is far from certain that he helped himself enough anyway.

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Swiveling all night between heeding the advice of allies who have pleaded for uncharacteristic discipline and succumbing to impulses that can still consume him as he faces down an opponent he cannot process losing to, Trump stood before the electorate a candidate in conflict at his late campaign hour.

If Trump appeared to recognize that the debate represented his final mass audience less than two weeks before Election Day, he also showed the limits of even a more finely calibrated executive performance.

In an election that Joe Biden’s team has sought to frame as a referendum on the incumbent, particularly his handling of the coronavirus — an endeavor that Trump has often made quite straightforward for his rival — it was the president who entered Thursday night with more work to do, given the national and battleground state surveys showing him behind.

At times, his answers seemed tailored explicitly with this deficit in mind, targeted at groups with whom he must improve his standing, like seniors, whom he pledged at one point to “protect” four times in a matter of seconds.

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But in a moment of relentless national upheaval, manifesting in protest, public health crisis and immense financial turmoil, Trump also could not help but accentuate the most essential qualities of his tenure Thursday, reverting to fits of magical-thinking-aloud and grievance-stuffed nonrestraint.

He set off on an extended meditation — most likely to resonate with only dedicated consumers of right-wing media — on whether Biden’s nickname was “the big man” as it related to his son’s business dealings. He dwelled on “the emails, the emails, the horrible emails” with conspiratorial repetition.

He invoked Abraham Lincoln to praise his own contributions to Black Americans.

He specked his virus defense with an aside that “we can’t lock ourselves up in a basement like Joe does,” before nodding at purportedly shadowy sources of Biden family wealth. (“He’s obviously made a lot of money someplace,” he said.)

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The president’s opponents like to say there is only one Trump, and his advisers like to describe a different one: compassionate in private, they insist; altruistic in nature; brawling only when the task dictates as much.

Too often — and despite his best efforts Thursday — this latter case has tended to collapse in a hail of misstatement and self-congratulation.

He can resemble a chef with one dish, a golfer with one club in his bag — regardless of what the next stroke might require — and a propensity to blame his caddie for the attendant result.

If voters reject him next month, this will be the chief reason: The 2020 campaign is different, and Trump is not.

He still focused extensively Thursday on often unsubstantiated allegations against his opponent’s son, defying some Republican allies who have counseled that the attacks connect little beyond the conservative echo chamber where Trump is already beloved.

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He still made virtually no attempt to outline a comprehensive second-term agenda that might appeal to any remaining political fence-sitters — to the extent that there are many left, in an election where many millions have already voted and most others are largely set in their views, according to polling.

Of course, political pliability was probably never going to be a prominent feature in a contest between two proud men in their 70s. Biden likewise demonstrated Thursday that he is very much the candidate that voters have come to know, for good or ill, across the decades: a creature of a bygone Washington, prone to throwback references, never entirely smooth.

He spoke of “Bidencare” and made a curious allusion to Hitler. He strained to supply a compelling rebuttal to Trump’s charge that he has been around Washington for almost a half-century to little effect.

Biden was often at his strongest pressing Trump on his stewardship during the pandemic, suggesting the president did not have the capacity to evolve in the job.

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“He says we’re learning to live with it,” Biden said of the virus. “People are learning to die with it.”

In an exchange about immigration, Biden highlighted the 545 children who were separated from their parents at the border, and whose parents cannot be located. “It makes us a laughingstock, and violates every notion of who we are as a nation,” Biden said.

Trump’s retort was to claim the children are “well taken care of,” and then to focus on the cages that have been used to hold them. “Who built the cages, Joe?”

A businessman who has long specialized in setting Houdini-like traps for himself and then trying to escape, Trump appeared mindful that this is almost certainly the last time he will ever be on a debate stage. In 2016, he managed to stay relatively disciplined for the final 10 days of the race, something his advisers have lamented since the disastrous last debate.

And if he was not his most unruly self Thursday, he also remains a man who believes firmly that a refusal to modulate is part of what delivered him to his position in the first place — reason enough, supporters say, to be reminded that this race is not yet over.

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Through essentially his entire professional life, the president has delighted in making others adjust to his tics and whims, secure in the knowledge that if history was instructive, everything would more or less work out for him anyway.

He created the impression of business success by insisting, as loudly and frequently as possible, that he was successful at business. He flattened campaign precedent with gleeful name-calling and race-baiting and was rewarded with the presidency. He faced impeachment after encouraging a foreign government to investigate a rival and was, in his estimation, thoroughly vindicated when Senate Republicans declined to expel him from office.

Even the debate rules Thursday were an exercise in adapting to Trump and not the other way around: The candidates were muted for their counterpart’s opening answers to each topic, given Trump’s fire hose of interruptions the last time.

Such guard rails were only ever going to curb him so much. Trump had made clear that he was going to spend a portion of the night hammering Biden over his son’s business ventures, the subject of fevered attention (and more than occasional misinformation and misleading innuendo) on the president’s favored media outlets in recent days.

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The strategy presented perils for both candidates. Biden has been known to grow flustered when challenged on matters of family, lashing out not only at opponents but also at members of the news media who question whether his son Hunter leveraged the Biden name for personal gain.

But there is little evidence that the approach has much helped Trump with the voters he needs: seniors, suburban women, those disinclined to share the president’s interest in the Fox News prime-time lineup.

Biden is also often at his most sympathetic when discussing his personal history, rife with tragedies like the car crash that killed his first wife and baby daughter in 1972 and the death of his son Beau from brain cancer in 2015.

Discussing Hunter, who has struggled with addiction, the former vice president has often appended a pointed descriptor: “my surviving son.”

Trump was undeterred, as ever.

For days leading up to the debate, he bypassed formal preparation but heard from a core group of advisers conveying a singular message with varying degrees of urgency: Control your temper. Do not talk over Biden. Do not come off as angry. They discussed with him issues they believe voters would want to hear about, including the economy and the competitive threat of China, in keeping with persistent Trump campaign insinuations that any foreign contacts by anyone should be examined.

But inevitably, Trump is liable to return to the subject that most grabs him: himself, and how unfairly he feels he is being treated.

The first debate appeared to hurt his cause not simply because Trump could not resist talking over Biden. It was, more precisely, a very public window into the version of Trump that led former White House counsel Donald McGahn to call him “King Kong” — the version that aides have long argued is a figment of the news media’s hyperbolic imagination.

That initial debate spectacle underscored what some people who have known Trump for years have said privately: that his volatility and anger do not wear well on people.

In this second night of what was supposed to be a three-debate run — the president’s own coronavirus case and refusal to debate virtually doomed another — Trump was less openly hostile.

But he still made the case that five years into his career in political debates, he is a different kind of leader, hoping to run as an outsider even after four years in office.

“It’s all-talk-no-action with these politicians,” he said in one exchange.

“I’m not a typical politician,” he said in another.

He was just trying to play one on television, in moderation, for at least one night.

Before the president’s last, best chance to change the trajectory of his reelection bid, his mandate Thursday evening was at once clear and complicated: Be less like Donald Trump.

Before the president’s last, best chance to change the trajectory of his reelection bid, his mandate Thursday evening was at once clear and complicated: Be less like Donald Trump. It can be said that he tried, by his standard. He succeeded at various points in acting like the type of person he claims to disdain: a typical politician in a debate. He spoke with an inside voice while saluting his own pandemic response. He interrupted far less. He thanked the moderator for letting him chime in and did not sound sarcastic while doing so. And it is far from certain that he helped himself enough anyway. Have a look| US Election 2020: Donald Trump, Joe Biden appear for last presidential debate Swiveling all night between heeding the advice of allies who have pleaded for uncharacteristic discipline and succumbing to impulses that can still consume him as he faces down an opponent he cannot process losing to, Trump stood before the electorate a candidate in conflict at his late campaign hour. If Trump appeared to recognize that the debate represented his final mass audience less than two weeks before Election Day, he also showed the limits of even a more finely calibrated executive performance. In an election that Joe Biden’s team has sought to frame as a referendum on the incumbent, particularly his handling of the coronavirus — an endeavor that Trump has often made quite straightforward for his rival — it was the president who entered Thursday night with more work to do, given the national and battleground state surveys showing him behind. At times, his answers seemed tailored explicitly with this deficit in mind, targeted at groups with whom he must improve his standing, like seniors, whom he pledged at one point to “protect” four times in a matter of seconds. Also read| US election 2020: Joe Biden calls Donald Trump's immigration policies 'criminal' But in a moment of relentless national upheaval, manifesting in protest, public health crisis and immense financial turmoil, Trump also could not help but accentuate the most essential qualities of his tenure Thursday, reverting to fits of magical-thinking-aloud and grievance-stuffed nonrestraint. He set off on an extended meditation — most likely to resonate with only dedicated consumers of right-wing media — on whether Biden’s nickname was “the big man” as it related to his son’s business dealings. He dwelled on “the emails, the emails, the horrible emails” with conspiratorial repetition. He invoked Abraham Lincoln to praise his own contributions to Black Americans. He specked his virus defense with an aside that “we can’t lock ourselves up in a basement like Joe does,” before nodding at purportedly shadowy sources of Biden family wealth. (“He’s obviously made a lot of money someplace,” he said.) Also read| Other countries 'will pay a price': Joe Biden and Donald Trump talk about Russian interference The president’s opponents like to say there is only one Trump, and his advisers like to describe a different one: compassionate in private, they insist; altruistic in nature; brawling only when the task dictates as much. Too often — and despite his best efforts Thursday — this latter case has tended to collapse in a hail of misstatement and self-congratulation. He can resemble a chef with one dish, a golfer with one club in his bag — regardless of what the next stroke might require — and a propensity to blame his caddie for the attendant result. If voters reject him next month, this will be the chief reason: The 2020 campaign is different, and Trump is not. He still focused extensively Thursday on often unsubstantiated allegations against his opponent’s son, defying some Republican allies who have counseled that the attacks connect little beyond the conservative echo chamber where Trump is already beloved. Also read| US election 2020: Joe Biden calls Donald Trump's immigration policies 'criminal' He still made virtually no attempt to outline a comprehensive second-term agenda that might appeal to any remaining political fence-sitters — to the extent that there are many left, in an election where many millions have already voted and most others are largely set in their views, according to polling. Of course, political pliability was probably never going to be a prominent feature in a contest between two proud men in their 70s. Biden likewise demonstrated Thursday that he is very much the candidate that voters have come to know, for good or ill, across the decades: a creature of a bygone Washington, prone to throwback references, never entirely smooth. He spoke of “Bidencare” and made a curious allusion to Hitler. He strained to supply a compelling rebuttal to Trump’s charge that he has been around Washington for almost a half-century to little effect. Biden was often at his strongest pressing Trump on his stewardship during the pandemic, suggesting the president did not have the capacity to evolve in the job. Also read| US Elections 2020: I think he's a Democrat, but that's OK, says Trump on Fauci “He says we’re learning to live with it,” Biden said of the virus. “People are learning to die with it.” In an exchange about immigration, Biden highlighted the 545 children who were separated from their parents at the border, and whose parents cannot be located. “It makes us a laughingstock, and violates every notion of who we are as a nation,” Biden said. Trump’s retort was to claim the children are “well taken care of,” and then to focus on the cages that have been used to hold them. “Who built the cages, Joe?” A businessman who has long specialized in setting Houdini-like traps for himself and then trying to escape, Trump appeared mindful that this is almost certainly the last time he will ever be on a debate stage. In 2016, he managed to stay relatively disciplined for the final 10 days of the race, something his advisers have lamented since the disastrous last debate. And if he was not his most unruly self Thursday, he also remains a man who believes firmly that a refusal to modulate is part of what delivered him to his position in the first place — reason enough, supporters say, to be reminded that this race is not yet over. Also read| 'I cannot guarantee': Donald Trump backtracks on COVID-19 vaccine; Joe Biden slams his approach Through essentially his entire professional life, the president has delighted in making others adjust to his tics and whims, secure in the knowledge that if history was instructive, everything would more or less work out for him anyway. He created the impression of business success by insisting, as loudly and frequently as possible, that he was successful at business. He flattened campaign precedent with gleeful name-calling and race-baiting and was rewarded with the presidency. He faced impeachment after encouraging a foreign government to investigate a rival and was, in his estimation, thoroughly vindicated when Senate Republicans declined to expel him from office. Even the debate rules Thursday were an exercise in adapting to Trump and not the other way around: The candidates were muted for their counterpart’s opening answers to each topic, given Trump’s fire hose of interruptions the last time. Such guard rails were only ever going to curb him so much. Trump had made clear that he was going to spend a portion of the night hammering Biden over his son’s business ventures, the subject of fevered attention (and more than occasional misinformation and misleading innuendo) on the president’s favored media outlets in recent days. Also read| US Elections 2020: Quotes from Donald Trump and Joe Biden during the presidential debate The strategy presented perils for both candidates. Biden has been known to grow flustered when challenged on matters of family, lashing out not only at opponents but also at members of the news media who question whether his son Hunter leveraged the Biden name for personal gain. But there is little evidence that the approach has much helped Trump with the voters he needs: seniors, suburban women, those disinclined to share the president’s interest in the Fox News prime-time lineup. Biden is also often at his most sympathetic when discussing his personal history, rife with tragedies like the car crash that killed his first wife and baby daughter in 1972 and the death of his son Beau from brain cancer in 2015. Discussing Hunter, who has struggled with addiction, the former vice president has often appended a pointed descriptor: “my surviving son.” Trump was undeterred, as ever. For days leading up to the debate, he bypassed formal preparation but heard from a core group of advisers conveying a singular message with varying degrees of urgency: Control your temper. Do not talk over Biden. Do not come off as angry. They discussed with him issues they believe voters would want to hear about, including the economy and the competitive threat of China, in keeping with persistent Trump campaign insinuations that any foreign contacts by anyone should be examined. But inevitably, Trump is liable to return to the subject that most grabs him: himself, and how unfairly he feels he is being treated. The first debate appeared to hurt his cause not simply because Trump could not resist talking over Biden. It was, more precisely, a very public window into the version of Trump that led former White House counsel Donald McGahn to call him “King Kong” — the version that aides have long argued is a figment of the news media’s hyperbolic imagination. That initial debate spectacle underscored what some people who have known Trump for years have said privately: that his volatility and anger do not wear well on people. In this second night of what was supposed to be a three-debate run — the president’s own coronavirus case and refusal to debate virtually doomed another — Trump was less openly hostile. But he still made the case that five years into his career in political debates, he is a different kind of leader, hoping to run as an outsider even after four years in office. “It’s all-talk-no-action with these politicians,” he said in one exchange. “I’m not a typical politician,” he said in another. He was just trying to play one on television, in moderation, for at least one night.

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