President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden squared off Tuesday night in their crucial first debate of the 2020 campaign, the most pivotal opportunity yet for them to outline starkly different visions for a country facing multiple crises.
It began with a contentious exchange over the Supreme Court with Trump defending his nomination of a new justice barely a month before the election.
Declaring that “I was not elected for three years, I’m elected for four years," Trump insisted he had every right to select Amy Coney Barrett to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died earlier this month. “We won the election.