With nearly 50 million votes already cast and time almost out to reverse his polling fortunes, Trump resorted to the tactics that helped him win four years ago. Poll watchers must be registered to vote in the county the precinct they are observing is located. Democratic Presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the first presidential debate in Cleveland, Sept. 29, 2020. From there, the data will need to be analyzed by the Food and Drug Administration to determine whether the vaccine is both safe and effective. He has called for much more aggressive use of the National Guard to control disturbances, and has dismissed the Black Lives Matter organization as a radical, violent group. KEITH: You know, in many ways, his answers haven't changed since April. Other battleground states where court rulings have extended the deadline for mail ballots to arrive include Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia, but the extension is being challenged in all three states. The two candidates were debating about the path forward for health care in America. Yes, he downplayed the coronavirus -- the single biggest crisis facing the country -- while taking no responsibility for it. How did he do? NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by Verb8tm, Inc., an NPR contractor, and produced using a proprietary transcription process developed with NPR. In its extensive clean energy plan released earlier this year, the Biden campaign described the Green New Deal as "a crucial framework for meeting the climate challenges we face.". KING: Tam, let me start with you. Bad things.". If that was cleaned, if you have forest management, good forest management, you wouldn't be getting those calls.". Many of the president’s promises fell short, a point that Mr. Biden may highlight. "Single-payer will not solve that at all," Biden said during an interview on MSNBC. His orders, if enacted, would lower drug prices by directing drugmakers to offer their medicines to Medicare at the same prices they do in other countries. The two are separate entities, according to Mesires. It's a rigged election. Mr. Biden has sought to tie the court vacancy to the fate of the Affordable Care Act, arguing that health coverage for millions of Americans is at stake in November’s election. Increasing heat and droughts are "supercharging" wildfires by creating drier conditions for trees and brush. In a recent Senate hearing, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield echoed those sentiments, "I think there will be [a] vaccine that will initially be available sometime between November and December, but very limited supply, and it will have to be prioritized," but, he said, "If you're asking me when is it going to be generally available to the American public so we can begin to take advantage of vaccine to get back to our regular life, I think we're probably looking at late second quarter, third quarter 2021. Trump said. FACT CHECK: The claim doesn't line up with the health care plan Biden has put forward, and the task force recommendations are not binding. During a briefing on wildfires in California earlier this month Trump refuted State Secretary for Natural Resources Wade Crawfoot when he described the impact of increasing heat and drought on the conditions that lead to fires. I did that. Then he changed his mind.". FACT CHECK: Trump signed an executive order in September aimed at lowering drug costs by trying to reduce the prices Medicare pays for prescription drugs, but experts have said it is unclear what authority the president has to carry it out. Also, in four of the nine states mailing ballots -- Oregon, Washington, Utah and Nevada -- Republicans currently run elections. In an interview with ABC News last year, Hunter Biden said he exercised "poor judgment," but maintained that he made no "ethical lapses. FACT CHECK: Last week, Senate Republicans unveiled the findings of their highly controversial investigation into Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings -- and specifically whether those endeavors ever influenced U.S. foreign policy. I ran because of Barack Obama. He has promised a starkly different approach to combating the virus, stressing the importance of deferring to scientific experts, and he has called for a national mask mandate, which Mr. Trump does not support. "The guy who got in trouble in Ukraine was this guy," Biden said, pointing to Trump, "trying to bribe the Ukrainian government to say something negative about me, which they would not do." Nov. 10. President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee for president Joe Biden face off in the first presidential debate of 2020 Tuesday night in Cleveland.. … But the administration's latest plan on insulin -- limiting Medicare copays to $35 per month -- doesn't start until next year, according to details released by his administration. Birth control should be for sale over the counter. "54 million non-elderly adults have a preexisting condition that would have led to a denial of insurance before the ACA. ", "I gave a hook to some very unethical people to act in illegal ways to try to do some harm to my father. Also, the former vice president has repeatedly said he does not support socialized medicine, including throughout the Democratic primary. And Biden talked about a slow transition away from a reliance on fossil fuels. KEITH: The basement Joe thing is something that Trump and his allies say all the time, but Biden was ready with a response that spoke to all the Americans who have been killed by the virus. And he insisted that the cure can't be worse than the disease. Coverage of the Democratic primary debates as the candidates pursue the presidential nomination in 2020. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We're learning to live with it. The majority of land impacted by wildfires in states like California, Washington and Oregon is also managed by the federal government, which proactively removes dead trees and brush and conducts controlled burns to keep forests healthy. The campaign also holds other indoor events regularly. But it probably didn't do anything to change the race's trajectory. "If you have to get a group of people together for whatever purpose, do it outdoors," Fauci said. But there is much more to discuss beyond those two slogans. TRUMP'S CLAIM: Trump claims his campaign rallies have been "outside" and had "no negative effect" on the spread of COVID-19. Mr. Trump has refused to release his tax returns, and The New York Times reported on Sunday that he paid only $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and in 2017. The plan also puts forward a goal to achieve a 100% clean energy economy and to reach net-zero emissions no later than 2050. He also has tried to curb costs paid by seniors on Medicare, the government-run health care insurance plan for older Americans. The University of Notre Dame withdrew as host because of the coronavirus pandemic. BIDEN'S CLAIM: "He has executive orders that have no power. This summer, Mr. Biden rolled out his own set of economic proposals under the slogan “Build Back Better,” including plans to invest in clean energy and to ensure that procurement spending goes toward American-made products. Eight of President Donald Trump's campaign staffers also tested positive for COVID-19 later that month, with two of them receiving positive results after attending the same Tulsa rally, the Trump campaign confirmed to ABC News.