Watch: Key moments from Trump v Biden debate
Donald Trump and Joe Biden met on stage to debate for the first time in the 2024 election cycle.President Biden struggled early on, stumbling over answers and appearing low energy with the White House confirming later that he had a cold. Trump, on the other hand, was far more energetic, but repreated lies and falsehoods throughout mostly failing to answer questions.Following the debate a CNN poll showed Trump as the winner, with 67 per cent of viewers feeling that Trump put in a better performance, compared to just 33 per cent for Biden.Source: CNN
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00:00Now, please welcome the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden.
00:05And please welcome the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump.
00:19Making sure that we continue to strengthen our health care system,
00:23making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person
00:27eligible for what I've been able to do with the COVID,
00:32excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with,
00:37look, if we finally beat Medicare.
00:44Thank you, President Biden. President Trump?
00:47Well, he's right. He did beat Medicare. He beat it to death and he's destroying Medicare.
00:51And I'm going to continue to move until we get the total ban on the total initiative
00:57relative to what we can do with more Border Patrol and more asylum officers.
01:03President Trump?
01:04I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence.
01:06I don't think he knows what he said either. Look.
01:08This is the first presidential election since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
01:14This morning, the court ruled on yet another abortion case,
01:18temporarily allowing emergency abortions to continue in Idaho,
01:22despite that state's restrictive ban.
01:25Former President Trump, you take credit for the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade,
01:30which returned the issue of abortion to the states.
01:33Correct.
01:34However, the federal government still plays a role in whether or not women have access to abortion pills.
01:42They're used in about two thirds of all abortions.
01:46As president, would you block abortion medication?
01:50First of all, the Supreme Court just approved the abortion pill.
01:54And I agree with their decision to have done that. And I will not block it.
01:58He can take the life of the baby in the ninth month and even after birth,
02:03because some states, Democrat run, take it after birth.
02:06Again, the governor, former governor of Virginia, put the baby down, then we decide what to do with it.
02:11So he's willing to, as we say, rip the baby out of the womb in the ninth month.
02:16President Trump, let's not act like children.
02:19To a specific concern that voters have about you.
02:23Will you pledge tonight that once all legal challenges have been exhausted,
02:28that you will accept the results of this election regardless of who wins?
02:33And you will say right now that political violence in any form is unacceptable.
02:39Well, I shouldn't have to say that, but of course I believe that it's totally unacceptable.
02:44And if you would see my statements that I made on Twitter at the time,
02:47and also my statement that I made in the Rose Garden,
02:50you would say it's one of the strongest statements you've ever seen.
02:52The question was, will you accept the results of this election regardless of who wins?
02:58Just to finish what he said, if I might. Russia.
03:03Will you accept the results of the election regardless of who wins? Yes or no, please.
03:08If it's a fair and legal and good election, absolutely.
03:13That's quid pro quo that we're not going to do anything.
03:17We're not going to give you a billion dollars unless you change your prosecutor having to do with the son.
03:21This man is a criminal. This man. You're lucky. You're lucky.
03:25I did nothing wrong. We'd have a system that was rigged and disgusting.
03:29I did nothing wrong. Thank you, President Trump.
03:31President Biden, you have said I'm coming right to you, sir.
03:34You well, you want to respond. Go ahead. I'll give you a minute to respond.
03:37The idea that I did anything wrong relative to what you're talking about is outrageous.
03:43It's simply a lie. Number one.
03:45Number two, the idea that you have a right to seek retribution against any American just because you're president is wrong.
03:52It's simply wrong. No president's ever spoken like that before.
03:55No president in our history has spoken like that before.
03:58Number three, the crimes you are still charged with.
04:01And think of all the civil penalties you have.
04:03How many billions of dollars do you owe in civil penalties for for molesting a woman in public,
04:08for doing a whole range of things, of having sex with a porn star on the night while your wife was pregnant?
04:16I mean, what what are you talking about? You have the morals of an alley cat.
04:21President Trump, will you take any action as president to slow the climate crisis?
04:27So I want absolutely immaculate, clean water and I want absolutely clean air.
04:33And we had it. We had H2O. We had the best numbers ever.
04:38Where the idea that he is claiming to have done something that had the cleanest water, the cleanest water.
04:46He had done a damn thing in the environment. He put out of the Paris peace accord, climate accord.
04:52I immediately joined it because if we reach for one point five degrees Celsius at any one point, there's no way back.
04:58The only existential threat to humanity is climate change.
05:01And he didn't do a damn thing about it. He must undo all that I've done.
05:05We now have the largest deficit in the history of our country under this guy.
05:09We have the largest deficit with China. He gets paid by China.
05:13He's a Manchurian candidate. He gets money from China.
05:16We have. So I think he's afraid to deal with them or something.
05:19I went to the World War Two cemetery, World War One cemetery refused to go to.
05:23He was standing with his four star general and he told me, said, I don't want to go in there because they're a bunch of losers and suckers.
05:29My son was not a loser, was not a sucker. You're the sucker. You're the loser.
05:34President Trump. First of all, that was a made up quote, suckers and losers.
05:38They made it up. It was in a third rate magazine that's failing like many of these magazines.
05:42I just won two club championships, not even senior to regular club championships.
05:47To do that, you have to be quite smart and you have to be able to hit the ball a long way.
05:52And I do it. He doesn't do it. He can't hit a ball 50 yards.
05:55He challenged me to a golf match. He can't hit a ball 50 yards.
05:59Look, I'd be happy to have a driving contest with him.
06:02I got my handicap, which when I was vice president down to a six.
06:08And by the way, I told you before, I'm happy to play golf.
06:11If you carry your own bag.
06:13Thank you, former President Trump, President Biden.