PRESIDENT Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden will compete for TV audiences in dueling town halls on Thursday night instead of meeting face-to-face for their second debate as originally planned.
The two will take questions in different cities on different networks: Trump on NBC from Miami, Biden on ABC from Philadelphia. Trump backed out of plans for the presidential faceoff originally scheduled for the evening after debate organizers said it would be held virtually following Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis.
The town halls offer a different format for the two candidates to present themselves to voters, after they held a chaotic and combative first debate late last month. But Trump, speaking on Fox Business on Thursday morning, kept up his same tone, calling Biden “mentally shot,” a “liar” and a “corrupt politician.”
He said that “some people said I was rude” in the first debate, “but you have to be rude. The
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