President Trump and the Democrat nominee had their second televised presidential debate Thursday, which involved more substantive and less raucous exchanges than there were in the first.
During a discussion on energy and climate change, The president asked Biden whether he would shut down the oil industry. To which the former vice president: “I would transition from the oil industry, yes.”
“The oil industry pollutes significantly,” Biden added. “It has to be replaced by renewable energy over time.”
This response further complicates the Democrat nominee's effort to woo voters in energy-producing states like Pennsylvania where his earlier vow to ban fracking has been met with swift condemnation.
Trump who seemed surprised by Biden's politically and economically absurd comment, seized on it. “Basically what he is saying is he would destroy the oil industry,” the president said. “Would you remember that Texas? Would you remember that Pennsylvania? Oklahoma, Ohio?"
The president bragged about his efforts in the spring to broker a global crude output cut as the wuhanvirus pandemic collapsed fuel demand worldwide. “We saved our oil industry,” Trump said, adding that it’s “vibrant.”
The final debate of the 2020 presidential election which took place in Nashville, Tennessee, addressed the latest bombshell to rock the 2020 campaign: allegations that Biden was involved in the foreign business dealings of his son, Hunter. Tony Bobulinski, former Hunter Biden's business partner, was in attendance at the Thursday debate, a guest of the president.
When the issue came up at the debate, Trump slammed Biden for "the horrible emails" and said the former vice president "owe an explanation to the American people."
Biden denied making any money from foreign sources. "I have not taken a penny from any foreign source ever in my life," he said before turning to attack Trump: "We learned this president paid 50 times the tax in China, has a secret bank account with China. Does business in China."
Trump and Biden also addressed other important issues -- like race relations, minimum wage and the wuhanvirus pandemic -- during the debate.
WATCH the debate.