Insults were aplenty in the first segment of the first presidential debate between President Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden.
Trump took a rhetorical swing at Biden while he attempted to answer questions about healthcare.
At one point, the president claimed Biden had lost a large segment of voters who had previously Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who was a far-left primary opponent of his during the primaries.
“I think you just lost the Left,” Trump said. “You just lost the Left. You agreed with Bernie Sanders on a plan.”
This was after Biden said there was “no manifesto” with his healthcare plan after Trump insisted the Democratic candidate made a deal on socialized medicine with Sanders.
The president also knocked Biden by saying he barely beat out Sanders in the primaries.
“I’m not even going to listen to him. The fact of the matter is I beat Bernie Sanders,” Biden said, later adding “by a whole hell of a lot” after Trump disputed his first comment.
Joe Biden: “I beat Bernie Sanders.”
President Trump: “Not by much.”
Biden: “I beat him a whole hell of a lot.”#Debates2020 pic.twitter.com/cszuFgoJ1t
— The Hill (@thehill) September 30, 2020
Trump said he believed Biden got “very lucky,” after which the former vice president agreed, adding he would once again have a stroke of good luck.
“Here’s the deal. The fact is, everything he is 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 debate in Cleveland, Ohio, is the first of three presidential contests before the Nov. 3 election and is being moderated by Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace.
