1. Trump denies responsibility for the January 6 attack on US Capitol
“On January 6, we had a great border. Nobody coming through,” said Trump. “We were energy independent. On January 6, we had the lowest taxes ever, we had the lowest regulations ever.”
2. Biden jabs Trump’s criminal conviction
“The only person on this stage who is a convicted felon is this man I’m looking at right now,” Biden said to Trump.
3. “My son was not a loser, was not a sucker. You’re the sucker, you’re the loser,” Biden tells Trump
“First of all, that was a made-up quote, ‘suckers and losers.’ They made it up. It was in a third-rate magazine that’s failing, like many of these magazines,” Trump said. “To think that I would, in front of generals and others, say ‘suckers and losers.’”
CNN Presidential Debate with President Joe Biden and Former President Donald Trump [ Photo credit: CNN] ## 4. Biden attacks Trump on immigration actions: “He was taking — separating — babies from their mothers”
“We find ourselves in a situation where when he was president, he was taking — separating — babies from their mothers, putting them in cages, making sure they’re the families were separated. That’s not right way to go,” Biden said.
5. Biden on Trump’s Roe v. Wade claims: “Simply not true”
“That is simply not true,” Biden responded. “Roe v. Wade does not provide for that — that’s not the circumstance. Only if a woman’s life is in danger, or she’s going to die. That’s the only circumstance where that can happen.”
6. Biden calls the overturning of Roe v. Wade “a terrible thing”
“The vast majority of constitutional scholars supported Roe (v. Wade) when it was decided,” he said in response to former President Donald Trump, who defended the overturning of the landmark case. “This idea that they were all against it is just ridiculous.”
7. Trump says he will not block abortion medication as president
“I put three great Supreme Court justices on the court and they happened to vote in favor of killing Roe v. Wade, and moving it back to the states,” he said. “Now the states are working it out.”
