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….. Biden, Trump trade insults and accusations in first debate of 2024

Biden, Trump trade insults and accusations in first debate of 2024Follow along for live special coverage as President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump debate on CNN.

This combination of photos shows Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, and President Joe Biden during a presidential debate hosted by CNN, Thursday, June 27, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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Moderators question both Biden and Tr. Biden, Trump trade insults and accusations in first debate of 2024 on their ability to be president at their age

Trump will likely announce his pick for vice president in the coming weeks. There will also be a vice presidential debate this summer. The date has not been finalized, but Vice President Harris agreed to one held on either July 23 or Aug. 13.

On the legal front, Trump will appear for sentencing in his criminal trial on July 11, just days before the Republican National Convention, which begins on July 15 in Milwaukee. A month later, the Democratic National Convention will kick off on Aug. 19 in Chicago.

Trump and Biden will debate for a second time on Sept. 10

President Joe Biden speaks on Aug. 10, 2023, in Salt Lake City, from left, former President Donald Trump speaks on July 8, 2023, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo, File)

At the start of the debate, CNN’s Jake Tapper described how he and co-moderator Dana Bash would be approaching their roles: “Our job is to facilitate a debate between the two candidates tonight,” he said.

Throughout the debate, Bash and Tapper mainly opted not to follow up or fact-check, sticking to the allotted times and often moving on to another topic. Biden struggled with this format, while Trump often filled his speaking time with wide-ranging comments and accusations that were unrelated to the question he had been asked.

Whoppers and insults were often followed with a pause of the mics being cut and a “thank you, next question.”

Finally, 90 minutes into the debate, Bash followed up three times when Trump failed to answer a question about whether he would accept the results of the election in November, something he refused to do four years ago. Trump never did fully commit to accepting the 2024 election results.

Heading into the debate, CNN political director David Chalian told AP that fact-checking wasn’t the role of the moderators.

“They are not here to participate in this debate,” Chalian said. “They are here to facilitate a debate between Trump and Biden.”

What will the candidates do to slow the climate crisis?

Neither candidate had direct answers to how they plan to slow the climate crisis in their second terms.

Trump boasted having the “best environmental numbers ever,” after at first avoiding the question. But Trump has a history of casting doubt on the scientific consensus that burning fossil fuels is the main cause of climate change.

“I want absolutely immaculate clean water, and I want absolutely clean air. And we had it,” Trump said. Still, Trump has campaigned on the promise to “drill, baby, drill” and ending various energy efficiency and rescinding foreign and domestic climate policies.

Biden used the question to boast about passing the “most extensive climate change legislation in history,” referencing the Inflation Reduction Act — which Trump and various Republicans have vowed to repeal — and criticizing Trump for pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord, a decision Trump still stands by.

Neither candidate had direct answers to how they plan to slow the climate crisis in their second terms.

Trump boasted having the “best environmental numbers ever,” after at first avoiding the question. But Trump has a history of casting doubt on the scientific consensus that burning fossil fuels is the main cause of climate change.

“I want absolutely immaculate clean water, and I want absolutely clean air. And we had it,” Trump said. Still, Trump has campaigned on the promise to “drill, baby, drill” and ending various energy efficiency and rescinding foreign and domestic climate policies.

Biden used the question to boast about passing the “most extensive climate change legislation in history,” referencing the Inflation Reduction Act — which Trump and various Republicans have vowed to repeal — and criticizing Trump for pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord, a decision Trump still stands by.

Trump avoids committing to accepting the election 

Addressing one of voters’ primary concerns about Trump, Bash asked him to pledge tonight “that once all legal challenges have been exhausted, that you will accept the results of this election, regardless of who wins, and you will say right now that political violence in any form is unacceptable?”

Trump didn’t exactly do so.

“Well, I shouldn’t have to say that,” he said. “But of course, I believe that it’s totally unacceptable. And if you would see my statements that I made on Twitter at the time, and also my statement that I made in the Rose Garden, you would say it’s one of the strongest statements you’ve ever seen, in addition to the speech I made in front of, I believe, the largest crowd I’ve ever spoken to.”

Trump then went on a tangent about Jan. 6 and foreign policy, before Bash returned with a follow up: Would he accept the election results regardless of the winner?

“Just to finish what I said, If I might, Russia, they took a lot of land from Bush,” Trump answered. “They took a lot of land from Obama and Biden. They took no land, nothing from Trump, nothing.”

Bash tried a third time: “The question was, will you accept the results of the election, regardless of who wins? Yes or No.”

Trump answered with remarks similar to those he made on the debate stage in 2020 — before he was charged with working to overturn the election results and trying to stop the peaceful transfer of power.

“If it’s a fair and legal and good election, absolutely,” he said. “I would have much rather accepted these, but the fraud and everything else was ridiculous, and if you want, we’ll have a news conference on it in a week, or we’ll have another one of these on in a week. But I will absolutely, there’s nothing I’d rather do.”

Moderators question both Biden and Trump on their ability to be president at their age

By Associated Press reports

President Joe Biden, right, and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, participate in a presidential debate hosted by CNN, Thursday, June 27, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

More than 80 minutes into the debate, President Joe Biden, 81, and former President Donald Trump, 78, were asked about their age and ability to serve well into their 80s.

Biden, answering with the hoarse voice he’s had all night, launched on a litany of policy achievements and noted that Trump is only “three years younger.”

Biden also used the answer to slap at Trump for bad-mouthing the U.S.

“The idea that we are some kind of failing country? I’ve never heard a president talk like that before,” Biden said.

In his retort, Trump bragged on his golf game and said he’s in as good a shape as he was 25 years ago and perhaps “even a little bit lighter.”

Trump’s criminal conviction and alleged affair

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during a presidential debate with President Joe Biden, Thursday, June 27, 2024, in

This dispatch originally appeared on NPR.

Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts — but he still says he did nothing wrong.

In May, Trump became the first former or sitting president to both be tried on criminal charges and to be found guilty. A 12-person New York jury convicted Trump of 34 counts of falsified business records.

Still, Trump has long argued without evidence that the trial, the prosecution and the verdict was politically motivated against him.

“We have a system that was rigged and disgusting. I did nothing wrong,” Trump said during the CNN presidential debate.

In a letter to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the Justice Department said it found no emails about the Trump probe between Justice Department leadership and the Manhattan District Attorney’s office who prosecuted him. The letter underscored that the District Attorney’s office is a separate entity from the DOJ.

Biden argued that Trump has also received multiple civil penalties — citing other New York trials Trump has been found liable in. These included when Trump was found liable of sexually assaulting columnist E. Jean Carroll. Biden also accused Trump of having the “morals of an alley cat” for allegedly having an affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels.

Trump denied the alleged affair, which was at the center of the criminal conviction. The falsified business records were the invoices, ledgers and checks used to pay his former lawyer Michael Cohen for originally paying Daniels to keep quiet about the alleged affair as Trump ran for president in 2016.

Biden supporter: President could be stronger but doing well.

The crowd at the Biden-Harris office in Roxborough has been vocal, often cheering Biden and laughing at Trump, on instances such as when the former president said he left a better economy than what he had been given.

A volunteer with the Biden campaign, David Evans, told WHYY News that he believes Biden could go after Trump stronger on some points, but Evans said that, overall, the president is doing well.

“He’s got some strong points,” Evans said. “He’s struggling a little bit with his rebuttals, but overall I think he’s got some really key points.”

As for Trump, “He diverts when he is pinned to a corner, he just changes the subject like he usually does.”

Evans, who lives in North Philly, runs a nonprofit called Block by Block Philly. He says women’s health care and voting rights are his top issues and he will door-knock for the campaign Sunday.

‘Focus in on what you can control’: Bucks Republican delegate urges Trump supporters to get out the vote

 

Ahead of the Newtown watch party, Jim Worthington, local delegate to the Republican National Convention, spoke to the room about the importance of local Trump organizers engaging voters to win the county, the state and ultimately the election.

He said worries about “stealing the election” should be dismissed, stating that 500 lawyers will be on the ground that day to ensure the election is fair.

“Forget it, you’ve got to start focusing in on what you can control. That’s what I do,” Worthington said.

He recommended Trump supporters work with “low-propensity” voters by helping to get them to the polls on Election Day, or by assisting them with voting by mail.

Although Trump falsely claimed that mail ballots led to election fraud in the 2020 elections, Pennsylvania Republican leaders have been encouraging voters to use mail-in ballots in the upcoming elections and working to change negative perceptions of mail ballots.

Questioning turns to the events 

By Associated Press 

Debate questions are turning to Jan. 6, 2021, when supporters of then-President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol during the certification of the Electoral College vote count.

Trump was asked by host Jake Tapper whether he violated his oath to protect and defend the Constitution.

Asked about the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021, Trump quickly pivoted to immigration and taxes. Pressed on his role, he said he encouraged people to act “peacefully and patriotically,” then attacked former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The rioters on Jan. 6 engaged in hand-to-hand combat with police and used makeshift weapons, including flagpoles, a table leg, hockey stick and crutch, to attack officers. Police officers were bruised and bloodied as they were dragged into the crowd and beaten. One officer was crushed in a doorframe and another suffered a heart attack after a rioter pressed a stun gun against his neck and repeatedly shocked him.