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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2020
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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGER JOE BIDEN TRADE TAUNTS DURING 90-MINUTE DEBATE
First debate at times devolves
into interruptions, personal jabs
By Jonathan Lemire,
Darlene Superville,
Will Weissert and
Michelle L. Price
“The fact is that everything he’s saying so far is simply
a lie. I’m not here to call out his lies. Everybody knows
he’s a liar.”
Associated Press
CLEVELAND — The fi rst
debate between President
Donald Trump and Demo-
cratic challenger Joe Biden
deteriorated into bitter taunts
and near chaos Tuesday night
as Trump repeatedly inter-
rupted his opponent with
angry — and personal — jabs
that sometimes overshad-
owed the sharply different
visions each man has for a
nation facing historic crises.
In the most tumultuous
presidential debate in recent
memory, Trump refused to
condemn white supremacists
who have supported him,
telling one such group known
as Proud Boys to “stand
back, stand by.” There were
also heated clashes over the
president’s handling of the
pandemic, the integrity of the
election results, deeply per-
sonal attacks about Biden’s
family and how the Supreme
Court will shape the future of
the nation’s health care.
But it was the belligerent
tone that was persistent,
somehow fi tting for what
has been an extraordinarily
ugly campaign. The two men
frequently talked over each
other with Trump inter-
rupting, nearly shouting, so
often that Biden eventually
snapped at him, “Will you
shut up, man?”
“The fact is that everything
he’s saying so far is simply a
lie,” Biden said. “I’m not here
to call out his lies. Everybody
knows he’s a liar.”
The presidential race has
been remarkably stable for
weeks, despite the historic
crises that have battered the
country this year, including
a pandemic that has killed
more than 200,000 Ameri-
cans and a reckoning over
race and police brutality. With
just fi ve weeks until Elec-
tion Day and voting already
underway in some key states,
Biden has maintained a lead
in national polls and in many
battlegrounds.
It’s unclear whether the de-
bate will do much to change
those dynamics.
— Joe Biden, referring to President Donald Trump
“I’ll tell you Joe, you could never have done the job
that we did. You don’t have it in your blood.”
— President Donald Trump
Yuri Gripas / Abaca Press-TNS
President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden participate in
the fi rst presidential debate at Case Western Reserve University on Tuesday.
Over and over, Trump
tried to control the conversa-
tion, interrupting Biden and
repeatedly talking over the
moderator, Chris Wallace
of Fox News. The president
tried to defl ect tough lines of
questioning — whether on
his taxes or the pandemic —
to deliver broadsides against
Biden.
The president drew a
lecture from Wallace, who
pleaded with both men to
stop talking over each other.
Biden tried to push back
against Trump, sometimes
looking right at the camera
to directly address viewers
rather than the president and
snapping, “It’s hard to get a
word in with this clown.”
Again refusing to commit
to honoring the results of
the election, Trump spread
falsehoods about mail voting.
Without evidence, he sug-
gested that the process —
surging in popularity during
the pandemic — was ripe for
fraud and incorrectly claimed
impropriety at a Pennsylva-
nia voting site.
But despite his efforts to
dominate the discussion,
Trump was frequently put
on the defensive and tried to
sidestep when he was asked
if he was willing to condemn
white supremacists and para-
military groups.
“What do you want to call
them? Give me a name. Give
me a name,” Trump said,
before Biden mentioned
the far right, violent group
known as the Proud Boys.
Trump then pointedly did not
condemn the group, instead
saying: “Proud Boys, stand
back, stand by. But I’ll tell you
what, somebody’s got to do
something about antifa and
the left because this is not a
right-wing problem. This is a
left-wing problem.”
Biden attacked Trump’s
handling of the pandemic,
saying that the president
“waited and waited” to act
when the virus reached
America’s shores and “still
doesn’t have a plan.” Biden
told Trump to “get out of
your bunker and get out of
the sand trap” and go in his
golf cart to the Oval Offi ce
to come up with a bipartisan
plan to save people.
Trump snarled a response,
declaring: “I’ll tell you Joe, you
could never have done the job
that we did. You don’t have it
in your blood.”
“I know how to do the job,”
was the solemn response
from Biden, who served eight
years as Barack Obama’s vice
president.
The pandemic’s effects
were in plain sight, with the
candidates’ lecterns spaced
far apart, all the guests in
the small crowd tested and
the traditional opening
handshake scrapped. While
neither candidate wore a
mask to take the stage, their
families did sport face cover-
ings.
Trump struggled to defi ne
his ideas for replacing the
Affordable Care Act on health
care in the debate’s early
moments and defended his
nomination of Amy Coney
Barrett, declaring, “I was not
elected for three years, I’m
elected for four years.”
“We won the election. Elec-
tions have consequences. We
have the Senate. We have
the White House and we
have a phenomenal nominee,
respected by all.”
Trump criticized Biden
over the former vice presi-
dent’s refusal to comment
on whether he would try to
expand the Supreme Court
in retaliation if Barrett is
confi rmed to replace the late
Justice Ruth Bader Gins-
burg. That idea has gained
momentum on the party’s left
fl ank, but Biden tried to put
distance between himself and
the liberal wing, declining to
endorse the Green New Deal
and rejecting the assertion
that he was under the control
of radicals by declaring “I am
the Democratic Party now.”
The scattershot debate
bounced from topic to topic,
with Trump again refusing
to embrace the science of cli-
mate change while Biden ac-
cused Trump of walking away
from the American promise
of equity for all and making a
race-based appeal.
“This is a president who
has used everything as a dog
whistle to try to generate
racist hatred, racist division,”
Biden said.
Recent months have seen
major protests after the
deaths of Black people at the
hands of police. Biden said
the country faces a problem
with systemic racism and
that while the vast majority
of police offi cers are “decent,
honorable men and women”
there are “bad apples” and
people have to be held ac-
countable.
Trump in turn claimed
that Biden’s work on a
federal crime bill treated the
African American population
“about as bad as anybody in
this country.” The president
pivoted to his hardline focus
on those protesting racial in-
justice and accused Biden of
being afraid to use the words
“law and order,” out of fear of
alienating the left.
“Violence in response is
never appropriate,” Biden
said. “Never appropriate.
Peaceful protest is.”
The attacks turned deeply
personal when Trump re-
turned to a campaign attack
line by declaring that Biden’s
son, Hunter, had inappro-
priately benefi tted from his
father’s connections while
working in Ukraine. Biden
rarely looked at Trump dur-
ing the night but turned to
face the president when he
defended his sons, including
Beau, an Army veteran who
died of cancer in 2015, after
the commander in chief’s
reported insults of those who
served in the military.
A new report from two
Republican-led Senate com-
Les Schwab Tire Centers sold to
private investment firm in California
Prineville City Manager
The (Bend) Bulletin
Steve Forrester, who grew up in
Central Oregonians are
Prineville, said he was concerned
hoping the new owners of Les
about what changes the new
Schwab Tire Centers will main- owner might make.
tain the sense of loyalty to the
“This is positive news,” For-
community that they’ve come to rester said. “We were concerned
expect.
that a named brand would
From the $200 a year in
purchase them and that could
sponsorship for the Prineville
potentially displace the distribu-
Soccer Club to the support of the tion center, the tire operations
Prineville railroad, Les Schwab here in Prineville and poten-
has more than half a century
tially have an effect on Central
of history tied up with Central
Oregon.”
Oregon.
At the moment, Meritage says
On Tuesday, Les Schwab
it will retain its operations in
announced it had reached an
Central Oregon. Les Schwab em-
agreement to sell the company
ploys 7,000 people at nearly 500
to Meritage Group, a private
locations throughout Oregon,
investment fi rm headquartered Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Mon-
in San Francisco.
tana, California, Nevada, Utah,
The news comes nearly 10
Colorado and Wyoming, accord-
months after Les Schwab’s board ing to the company statement.
of directors, who are relatives of
“Meritage Group has a history
founder Les Schwab, announced of preserving culture and values
it would seek new ownership of while growing its companies
the company.
with investment over time,” Les
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Banks will be tasked with leading the state’s
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inequalities. She starts Oct. 27 and is replacing
Lillian Shirley, who had said she’s retiring.
Banks is “a leader with professional acumen
combined with lived and worked experience
around promoting equity,” Patrick Allen, direc-
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statement.
Allen called Banks’ attributes necessary
as the agency attempts to make “meaningful
progress on health equity while guiding the
state’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic
— and continuing to advance programs that
promote the majority of health that happens
outside the doctor’s offi ce, such as reducing
chronic diseases, ensuring clean air and water,
and urging immunizations.”
Banks has led Multnomah County’s
response to the coronavirus including policy
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