First US Presidential Debate Kicks Off in Cleveland

U.S. President Donald Trump and former Vice President and Democratic nominee Joe Biden face off tonight in the first of three presidential debates leading up to the U.S. presidential elections November 3. The debate will be moderated by Fox News anchor Chris Wallace.

The topics discussed will be the two candidates' records, the current vacancy on the Supreme Court, COVID-19, the U.S. economy, race and violence in U.S. cities, and the integrity of the elections. Other anticipated topics are the current release of Trump's tax returns, showing he only a mere $750 in taxes last year. 

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Biden, who is leading in national polls and, more importantly, in four battleground states, hopes to win over voters and assume the Oval Office by critiquing Trump's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, his fast-track nomination of conservative juror Amy Coney-Barrett to the Supreme Court, and the disastrous  state in which poor and working people find themselves in the midst of the largest economic decline since the Great Depression.

Trump, who has been holding large campaign rallies with most participants unmasked and close together, hopes to use the slight increase in job creation and a scapregoating of China to minimize these issues and label any liberal or progressive recovery measure as socialist or aligned with Bernie Sanders.