2020 Debate Highlights
Chris Wallace: The last four years you have promised to repeal and replace Obamacare, but you have never in these four years come up with a plan, a comprehensive Yes, I have. To replace Obamacare. Of course I have. Well, I'll give you an I got rid of the individual mandate And when I finish, I'm gonna give you an opportunity.
When Excuse me. I got rid of the individual mandate. I'm not here to call out his lies.
Everybody knows he's a liar. But you I just wanna make Joe, you're the liar. I I wanna make You graduated last in your class, not first in your class.
I God. I wanna make Mr. President, can you let him finish, sir? The question You wanna put a lot of new Supreme Court The question is, the question radical left. Would you shut up, man?
Who is your. Listen. Joe Biden: One of the big debates we had with 23 of my colleagues trying to win the nomination that I won were saying that Biden wanted to allow people to have private insurance still. They can. They do.
They will under my proposal. That's not what you've said. But that And it's not what your party has said.
That is simply a lie. Your party doesn't say it. That is Your party wants to go socialist My party is me.
And socialist healthcare. Right now, I am the Democratic Party. And they're gonna dominate you Joe. You know that. I am the Democratic Party right now.
The platform of the Democratic Not according to Harris. Is what I in fact, approved of. Chris Wallace: Is it true that you paid $750 in federal income taxes each of those two years?
Donald Trump: I paid millions of dollars in taxes, millions of dollars of income tax. Let me just tell you something, that it was the tax laws. I don't wanna pay tax.
Before I came here, I was a private developer. I was a private business people. Like every other private person, unless they're stupid, they go through the laws, and that's what it is.
I'm gonna eliminate the Trump tax cuts. Good. And we're gonna, we're, I'm gonna eliminate those tax It's okay. And make sure that we invest in the people who in fact need the help.
People out there need help. And I But why didn't you do it over I know. Wait. Now, let'In the last 25 years.
Because I wasn't president. Why didn't you do it over the last 25 years? Because you weren't president screwing things up.
No. You were a senator. And by the way, you were a You're the worst president America has ever had. Come on. Hey, Joe, let You Chris Wallace: have repeatedly- We
Criticized the vice president for not specifically calling out Antifa and other left-wing extremist groups. That's right. But are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia Sure. And to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities, as we saw in Kenosha and as we've seen in Portland?
Donald Trump: Sure, I'm willing to do that. Are you prepared to specifically- Do it. Well, go ahead, sir.
I would say, I would say almost everything I see is from the left wing, not from the right wing. So what are you what are you what are you saying? When you look, I'm willing to do anything.
I wanna see peace. Well, then do it, sir. Say it. Do it.
Say it. Do you wanna call them. What do you wanna call them? Give me a name.
Give me a name. White supremacists and Go ahead. Who would you like me to condemn?
White supremacists- Proud Boys. And right wing militia. Proud Boys, stand back and stand by.
But I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what, somebody's gotta do something about Antifa and the left because this is not a right-wing problem. His own, his own FBI director said the This is a left-wing, this is a left-wing problem. Go ahead. Are you questioning the efficacy of masks?
No, I think masks are okay. You have to understand, if you look, I mean, I have a mask right here. I put a mask on, you know, when I think I need it.
Tonight, as an example, everybody's had a test, and you've had social distancing and all of the things that you have to. But I wear Just like your rallies. When needed. When needed, I wear masks.
Okay. Let me I don't have, I don't wear masks like him. Every time you see him, he's got a mask. He could be speaking 200 feet away from it.
He shows up with the biggest mask I've ever seen. Masks make a big difference. His own head of the CDC said if we just wore masks between now, if there, everybody wore a mask and social distance between now and January, we'd probably save up to 100,000 lives.
It matters. And they've also said the opposite. It matters. They've also said the opposite. And no serious person said the opposite.
The fact is that there are gonna be millions of people, because of COVID, that are gonna be voting by mail-in ballots, like he does, by the way. And this is all about trying to dissuade people from voting because he's trying to to scare people into thinking that it's not gonna be legitimate. As far as the ballots are concerned, it's a disaster.
A solicited ballot, okay, solicited is okay. You're soliciting. You're asking. They send it back.
You send it back. I did that. This is going to be a fraud like you've never seen. The other thing, it's nice on November 3rd, you're watching, and you see who won the election.
And I think we're gonna do well because people are really happy with the job we've done. But you know what? We won't know. We might not know for months because these ballots are gonna be all over.
Chris Wallace: Now that millions of mail-in ballots have gone out, what are you gonna do about it? And are you counting on the Supreme Court, including a Justice Barrett, to settle any dispute? Yeah, I think I'm counting on them to look at the ballots, definitely.
I don't think we'll. I hope we don't need them in terms of the election itself. But for the ballots, I think so.
You'll go first. Donald Trump: I'm urging my supporters to go into the polls and watch very carefully because that's what has to happen. I am urging them to do it. I am urging my people.
I hope it's gonna be a fair election. If it's a fair You're urging them what? I am 100% on board.
But if I see tens of thousands of ballots being manipulated, I can't go along with that. Here's the deal. When you count the ballots, as you pointed out, some of these ballots in some states can't even be opened until election day. And if there's thousands of ballots, it's gonna take time to do it.
No one has established at all that there is fraud related to mail-in ballots, that somehow it's a fraudulent process. It's already been established. He has no idea what he's talking about.
Here's the deal. The fact is I will accept it, and he will, too. You know why? Because once the winner is declared after all the, all the ballots are counted, all the votes are counted, that'll be the end of it I do. I will. If we just wore these masks, the president's own advisors have told him, we could save 100,000 lives.
And we're in a circumstance where the president thus far and still has no plan, no comprehensive plan. Chris Wallace: You also said a vaccine will be coming within weeks. Yes. Is that a guarantee?
Donald Trump: No, it's not a guarantee, but it will be by the end of the year, but I think it has a good chance. There are two companies, I think, within a matter of weeks, and it will be distributed very quickly. This is the same fellow who told you this is gonna end by Easter last time.
This is the same fellow who told you that, "Don't worry, we're gonna end this by the summer." We're about to go into a dark winter, a dark winter, and he has no clear plan, and there's no prospect that there's gonna be a vaccine available for the majority of the American people before the middle of next year. President Trump, your reaction.
He says you have no plan. I don't think we're gonna have a dark winter and at all. We're opening up our country.
We've learned and studied and understand the disease. He says that we're, you know, we're learning to live with it. People are learning to die with it.
You folks home will have an empty chair at the kitchen table this morning. That man or wife going to bed tonight and reaching over to try to touch their, out of habit, where their wife or husband was, is gone. Learning to live with it.
Come on. We're dying with it. I take full responsibility. It's not my fault that it came here.
It's China's fault. And you know what? It's not Joe's fault that it came here either. It's China's fault. First of all, I've already done something that nobody thought was possible.
Through the legislature, I terminated the individual mandate. That is the worst part of Obamacare. He's talking about socialized medicine, and when he and healthcare.
When he talks about a public option, he's talking about destroying your Wrong. Totally destroy, and destroying your Social Security, and this whole country will come down. You know, Bernie Sanders tried Bernie.
In his state. He tried it in his state. His governor was a very liberal governor. They wanted to make it work.
Okay. Let's It was impossible to work. Let's let Vice President Biden respond. It doesn't work. Vice President Biden, Joe Biden: your response.
He's a very confused guy. He thinks he's running against somebody else. He's running against Joe Biden.
I beat all those other people because I disagreed with them. Joe Biden, he's running against. Chris Wallace: Mr. President, your administration separated children from their parents at the border, at least 4,000 kids.
You've since reversed your zero tolerance policy, but the United States can't locate the parents of more than 500 children. So how will these families ever be reunited? Donald Trump: Children are brought here by coyotes and lots of bad people, cartels, and they're brought here, and they used to use them to get into our country.
We now have as strong a border as we've ever had, where over 400 miles of brand-new wall, you see the numbers, and we let people in, but they have to come in legally. These 500-plus kids came with parents. They separated them at the border to make it a disincentive to come to begin with.
They real tough. We're really strong. And guess what? They cannot. It's not coyotes didn't bring them over.
Their parents were with them. They got separated from their parents, and it makes us a laughingstock and violates every notion of who we are as a nation.
The Black parent, no matter how wealthy or how poor they are, has to teach their child, when you're walking down the street, don't have a hoodie on when you go across the street, making sure that you in fact, if you get pulled over, "Yes sir, no sir," hands on top of the wheel, because you are, in fact, the victim, whether you're a person making 300,000, child of a $300,000 a year person or someone who's on food stamps.
I got criminal justice reform done and prison reform and opportunity zones. I took care of Black colleges and universities. I don't know what to say.
They can say anything. I mean, they can say anything. It's a very, it's, makes me sad because I am, I am the least racist person.
I can't even see the audience because it's so dark, but I don't care who's in the audience. I'm the least racist person in this room. He pours fuel on every single racist fire, every single one.
Started off his campaign coming down the escalator saying he's gonna get rid of those Mexican rapists. He's banned Muslims because they're Muslims. He has moved around and made everything worse across the board.
Chris Wallace: I have one final question. It Would he close down the oil industry? It Would you close down the oil industry?
It By the way, I have a transition from the oil industry, yes. Oh, that's a big statement. I will transition. It is a big statement.
That's a big statement. Because I would Why would you do that? Joe Biden: Because the oil industry pollutes significantly.
Oh, I see. Here's the deal, but you can't do That's a big statement. Well, if you let me finish the statement, because it has to be replaced by renewable energy over time, over time, and I'd stop giving to the oil industry, I'd stop giving them federal subsidies. Ooh. He won't give federal subsidies to the, to gas, excuse me, to the, to, solar and wind.
Yeah. Why are we giving it to oil industry? Chris Wallace: Imagine this is your inauguration day. What will you say in your address who American, to Americans who did not vote for you?
Donald Trump: We have to make our country totally successful as it was prior to the plague coming in from China. Success is going to bring us together. We are on the road to success, but I'm cutting taxes, and he wants to raise everybody's taxes, and he wants to put new regulations on everything.
What is on the ballot here is the character of this country, decency, honor, respect, treating people with dignity, making sure that everyone has an even chance, and I'm gonna make sure you get that. You haven't been getting it the last four years.
