Why Joe Biden should be hungry to debate Donald Trump
Analysis: The three presidential debates represent Mr Biden’s only opportunities to directly and immediately confront any lie or intentional misleading statement Mr Trump utters about their records, Political Correspondent Griffin Connolly writes
By all accounts, including his own, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is excited to debate Donald Trump one-on-one in Cleveland later this month.
As he should be.
The three presidential debates represent Mr Biden’s only opportunities to directly and immediately confront any lie or intentional mischaracterisation Mr Trump makes about their records — from their plans to tackle the coronavirus pandemic and positions on policing reform, to what each has said about police brutality and the pockets of violence on the streets of several US cities this summer.
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