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Trump and Biden Participate in the first Presidential Debate.

 
CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 HOST: This is CNN 10`s last program for September 2020. No debate about that, but Tuesday was debate night in America at least for

the presidential candidates, and today`s show has some highlights for you. I`m Carl Azuz. Thank you for watching.

The format for the face-off in Cleveland, Ohio at Case Western Reserve University, two candidates, 90 minutes, zero commercials, six subjects,
 

format [ˋfɔrmæt] n. （电视，广播节目等的）形式

face-off 對立, 攤牌

lots of questions. That was the plan for incumbent Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden. The debate`s

moderator, Fox News Anchor Chris Wallace, got to select the topics, and he`d planned to spend roughly 15 minutes on each of them.

In order to qualify for a presidential debate, candidates have to have the support of at least 15 percent of voters as determined by five national

polling organizations. That`s a rule set by the Commission on Presidential Debates, which organizes and governs these events, and that`s why Libertarian nominee, Jo Jorgensen,
 

Libertarian [lɪbɚˋtɛrɪən] adj.（美國）自由黨的

and Green Party nominee, Howie Hawkins, were not included in Tuesday`s debate.

To prepare for the event, former Vice President Biden huddled with his team in Wilmington, Delaware, practicing in mock debates, anticipating attacks
 

huddle [ˋhʌd!]v.【口】（私下）开会；（暗中）碰头

Delaware [ˋdɛləwɛr]n. 美国德拉威州

mock [mɑk] adj. 模拟的

from the incumbent leader. President Trump huddled with his team in the Map Room of the White House, practicing in mock debates, anticipating attacks

from the former vice president. Presidential debate coaches saying being prepared for attacks and not getting emotional about them is key, so is

being ready for tough questions. Experts say no candidate wants to hear one of those for the first time in the spotlight on the debate stage. That`s

why when the topic of COVID-19 came up a set amount of time was planned for both candidates.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

JOE BIDEN, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: 200,000 dead. As you said, over seven million infected in the United States. We, in fact,

have 5 percent of - or 4 percent of the world`s population, 20 percent of the deaths. 40,000 people a day are contracting COVID. In addition to that,

about between 750 and 1,000 people a day are dying. When he was presented with that number, he said it is what it is. Well it is what it is because

you are who you are.

That`s why it is. The president has no plan. He hasn`t laid out anything. He knew all the way back in February how serious this crisis was. He knew

it was a deadly disease. What did he do? He`s on tap as acknowledging he knew it. He said he didn`t tell us or give people a warning of it because
 

on tap 需要时即可获得的

he didn`t want to panic the American people. You don`t panic. He panicked. In addition to that, what did he do? He went in and he - we were insisting

that the Chinese - the people we had on the ground in China should be able to go to Wuhan and determine for themselves how dangerous this was. He did
 

on the ground 当场; in or at a location where the real work or action is happening

not even ask Xi to do that.

DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Wrong.

BIDEN: He told us what a great job Xi was doing. He said we owe him a debt of gratitude for being so transparent with us. And what did he do then? He

then did nothing - he waited and waited and waited. He still doesn`t have a plan.

TRUMP: If we would have listened to you, the country would have been left wide open. Millions of people would have died, not 200,000. And one person

is too much. It`s China`s fault. It should have never happened. They stopped it from going in, but it was China`s fault. And by the way, when

you talk about numbers you don`t know how many people died in China. You don`t know how many people died in Russia. You don`t how many people died

in India. They don`t exactly give you a straight count just so you understand. But if you look at what we`ve done, I closed it and you said

he`s xenophobic. He`s a racist and he`s xenophobic because you didn`t think I should have closed -
 

xenophobic [͵zɛnəˋfobɪk] adj. 仇外的; 惧外的

(CROSSTALK)

BIDEN: It`s unrelated to your COVID.

TRUMP: -- our country. Wait a minute.

WALLACE: Sir, it`s his two minutes.

BIDEN: You didn`t think we should have closed our country because you thought it was too - it was terrible. You wouldn`t have closed it for

another two months. By my doing it early, in fact Dr. Fauci said President Trump saved thousands of lives. Many of your Democrat governors said

President Trump did a phenomenal job. We worked with the governor -- oh, really? Go take a look.

(LAUGHTER)

Their governors said I did a phenomenal job. Most of them said that.

(LAUGHTER)

In fact, people that would not be necessarily on my side said that. We got the gowns; we got the masks; we made the ventilators. You wouldn`t have
 

gown [gaʊn]n.（医生等穿的）手术衣

made ventilators. And now we`re weeks away from a vaccine. We`re doing therapeutics already. Fewer people are dying when they get sick. Far fewer

people are dying. We`ve done a great job.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

AZUZ: Of course that wasn`t the only subject or point of disagreement between the two men. There was a lot of bickering in this debate. It was
 

bickering [ˋbɪkərɪŋ] n. 争吵

chaotic at times. There were interruptions and insults throughout. And one priority for the moderator and the Commission on Presidential Debates is to

make sure that the candidates each get a fair shot at making their points. The commission has sponsored every presidential and vice presidential
 

shot [ ʃɑt] n. 一席话; a try at something

debate since 1987. It`s nonpartisan, and it says it doesn`t receive funding from the government or any political party or campaign. That`s why when

topics concerning the environment and climate change were brought up, the goal was to give each candidate a set amount of time.
 

bring up 提起……，谈到

(BEGIN AUDIO CLIP)

TRUMP: I believe that we have to do everything we can to have immaculate air, immaculate water and do whatever else we can that`s good. You know,
 

immaculate [ɪˋmækjəlɪt] adj. 洁净的，无污垢的；无瑕疵的，完美的

we`re planting a billion trees, the Billion Tree Project, and it`s very exciting --

WALLACE: Do you believe that -- that human pollution, gas, greenhouse gas emissions contributes to the global warming of this planet?

TRUMP: I think a lot of things do, but I think to an extent, yes. I think to an extent, yes. But I also think we have to do better management of our

forests. Every year I get the call, California is burning, California is burning. If that was cleaned -- if that were -- if you had forest

management, good forest management, you wouldn`t be getting those calls.

BIDEN: During our administration and recovery act, I was able to -- I was in charge -- able to bring down the cost of renewable energy to cheaper

than or as cheap as goal and gas and oil. Nobody`s going to build another coal-fired plant in America. No one`s going to build another oil-fired

plant in America.

There`s so many things that we can do now to create thousands and thousands of jobs. We can get to net zero in terms of energy production by 2035.

Not only not costing people jobs, creating jobs. Creating millions of good paying jobs.

(END AUDIO CLIP)

AZUZ: The stakes were high for both candidates who wanted not only to win, but to win over voters. Going into the debate a Monmouth University poll

found that 74 percent of American voters plan to watch it. But here`s something interesting, only 3 percent said they were likely to change their

planned vote based on what the candidate said.

Still, they had a lot to say and a lot of ground to cover.
 

ground [graʊnd] n.（问题所涉及的）范围；研究的领域

And another topic was titled the integrity of the election.

(BEGIN AUDIO CLIP)

BIDEN: His own Homeland Security Director as well as the FBI Director says there is no evidence at all that mail-in ballots are a source of -- of

being manipulated and cheating. They said that.

The fact is, that there are going to be millions of people because of COVID that are going to be voting by mail-in ballots, like he does, by the way.

He sits behind the resolute desk and sends his ballot to Florida, number one.
 

resolute [ˋrɛzə͵lut] adj. 有决心的; 坚决的; 坚定不移的

Number two, we`re going to make sure that those people who want to vote in person are able to vote because enough poll watchers are there to make sure

they can socially distance, the polls are open on time and the polls stay open until the votes are counted.

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 going to be
 

dissuade [dɪˋswed] v. 劝（某人）勿做某事，劝阻

legitimate. Show up and vote. You will determine the outcome of this election. Vote, vote, vote. If you`re able to vote early in your state,

vote early. If you`re able to vote in person, vote in person. Vote whatever way is the best way for you.

TRUMP: As far as the ballots are concerned, it`s a disaster. A solicited ballot, OK, solicited is OK. You`re soliciting, you`re asking, they send
 

solicit [səˋlɪsɪt] v. 征求；征集

solicited ballot 拉票

it back, you send it back. I did that. If you have an unsolicited -- they`re sending millions of ballots all over the country.
 

unsolicited [͵ʌnsəˋlɪsɪtɪd] adj. 未经请求的；主动提供的

There`s fraud, they found them in creeks, they found some with the name Trump -- just happened to have the name Trump just the other day in a waste

paper basket. They`re being sent all over the place. They sent two in a Democrat area, they sent out a thousand ballots, everybody got two ballots.

This is going to be a fraud like you`ve never seen.

The other thing, it`s nice, on November 3 you`re watching and you see who won the election and I think we`re going to 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 going to be all

over.

(END AUDIO CLIP)

AZUZ: Again, those were just a few highlights from the two candidates’ first debate. For full coverage please visit CNN.com.

Now, it`s time to go behind the scenes on CNN10. The question, how do we stay objective on our show? The answer, we explain it as part of a

partnership with AT&T`s Youth Voices Collective in a series of special editions.

They feature yours truly and student questions about journalism. The first video is available right now. You can find it at CNN10.com and at

YouTube.com/CNN10. So you can call that our AT&Ts, our objective is to stay objective for the sake of objectivity TV.

I`m Carl Azuz. We`re going to the beach today. Gold Beach, it`s in Oregon and it`s where we heard from Gold Beach High School who left a comment on

our YouTube channel.

Thanks for watching CNN.

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