LONDON: Investors, already skittish ahead of U.S elections in November, now have another thing to worry about: the president's health.Donald Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis triggered a sell-off in stocks and oil and a surge in demand for traditional safe haven assets such as gold and bonds on Friday."The President of the United States has got a disease which kills people.

People are de-risking because of that," Chris Weston, head of research at Pepperstone in Melbourne, said.But where investors go from here depends, to a large degree, on how the U.S.

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In 25th Amendment bid, Pelosi mulls Trump's fitness to serve

WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is questioning President Donald Trump's fitness to serve, announcing legislation Thursday that would create a commission to allow Congress to intervene under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution and remove the president from executive duties.Just weeks before the Nov. 3 election, Pelosi said Trump needs to disclose more about his health after his COVID-19 diagnosis.

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Trump says he's ready for rallies but details slim on health

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump insisted Thursday that he is ready to resume campaign rallies and feels “perfect” one week after his diagnosis with the coronavirus that has killed more than 210,000 Americans, as his doctor said the president had ”completed his course of therapy" for the disease.The president has not been seen in public — other than in White House-produced videos — since his Monday return from the military hospital where he received experimental treatments for the virus. On Thursday, his physician, Navy Cmdr.

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Trump, Barr at odds over slow pace of Durham investigation

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is increasingly at odds with Attorney General William Barr over the status of the Justice Department's investigation into the origin of the Russia probe, with the president increasingly critical about a lack of arrests and Barr frustrated by Trump's public pronouncements about the case, according to people familiar with the matter. Trump and his allies had high hopes for the investigation led by Connecticut U.S.

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Trump says he may be tested for coronavirus Friday, refuses to confirm he’s negative

Donald Trump said Thursday he will “probably” get tested for the novel coronavirus on Friday, while refusing to confirm if he’s tested negative since returning to the White House after three days of hospital care.Speaking to Fox News, Trump declined multiple times to clearly say if he’s been tested for COVID-19 or when his last test even was, as speculation continues to swirl around his health even while his doctors cleared him for a return to public events. Trump could return to public events as soon as Saturday, doctor says He eventually told the host, Sean Hannity, that “there’s no reason to test all the time.”“Probably the test will be tomorrow,” Trump said.

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Deadline Issues Apology After ‘Draft’ Story Claiming VP Mike Pence Tested Positive For Coronavirus Was Accidentally Published

Deadline is issuing a rare apology after a story went live on the website claiming that U.S. Vice President Mike had tested positive for COVID-19.

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Covid-19 treatment: How antibody drug, which was given to Trump, work

WASHINGTON : They're not cures and it's not likely that everyone will be able to get them as President Donald Trump has suggested. But experimental antibody drugs like the one Trump was given are among the most promising therapies being tested for treating and preventing coronavirus infections.Eli Lilly and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.

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President Trump cleared to resume public engagements this weekend

President Donald Trump should be able to resume "public engagements" from tomorrow, the White House physician has announced, saying the US leader has responded "extremely well" to Covid-19 treatment.

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Trump, Biden campaigns spar over timing of next presidential debates

WASHINGTON (AP) - The fate of final debates between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden was thrown into uncertainty Thursday as the campaigns offered dueling proposals for the remaining faceoffs that have been upended by the president’s coronavirus infection.The chair of the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates said on CNN that the final debate, scheduled for Oct. 22, is still slated to go on in person as planned — but that Trump's campaign hadn't yet said whether he'd participate.

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What we know - and don't know - about Trump's covid-19 illness

Donald Trump revealed early on Oct. 2 that he had tested positive for the coronavirus, but several questions about the course of his illness remain unknown.

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Trump's handling of coronavirus pandemic hits record low approval

President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, with his net approval on the issue that has dominated the U.S. election hitting a record low in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.The poll taken Tuesday through Thursday, after Trump's COVID-19 infection and weekend hospitalization, found 37% of American adults approved of the president's handling of the pandemic and 59% disapproved.The net approval rating of negative 22 percentage points is the lowest in the poll dating back to March 2 and has steadily declined over the last 10 days, as Trump's illness and his return to work in the White House dominated news headlines.Trump's rating on the issue was negative 11 points in a Reuters/Ipsos poll taken Sept.

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Trump could return to public events as soon as Saturday, doctor says

Donald Trump‘s physician said on Thursday that Trump had completed his course of therapy for the coronavirus, had remained stable since returning to the White House and could return to public engagements on Saturday.Dr. Sean Conley said in a memo released by the White House that Trump had responded “extremely well” to treatment without any evidence of adverse effects.Trump was hospitalized on Friday after he announced he had contracted the coronavirus.

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Trump calls Michigan governor ‘lockup queen’, backs out next Biden debate

Before the FBI announced it thwarted a militia plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, U.S.

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Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer links thwarted kidnapping plot to Trump

Donald Trump, arguing Thursday in a speech hours after arrests were announced that Trump’s words had been a “rallying cry” for extremists.Whitmer, a Democrat, said the Republican president has spent the last seven months of the coronavirus pandemic “denying science, ignoring his own health experts, stoking distrust, fomenting anger and giving comfort to those who spread fear and hatred and division.” FBI foils far-right plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer She singled out Trump’s debate comments, when he didn’t condemn white supremacist groups and told one far-right extremist group to “stand up and stand by.”“Hate groups heard the president’s words not as a rebuke, but as a rallying cry,” Whitmer said.

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D.C. Department of Health Pens Open Letter Asking White House Staff at Rose Garden Event to Get Tested for COVID-19

In an extraordinary step, the Washington, D.C., Department of Health has released an open letter appealing to all White House staff and anyone who attended a Sept. 26 event in the Rose Garden to seek medical advice and take a COVID-19 test.

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COVID-19 rattles US election lead-up as global total tops 36 million

COVID-19 developments—including President Donald Trump's infection and the spread of the virus in White House ranks—continue to stir up the final weeks of the US presidential campaign, as the global total passed 36 million and a number of European countries reported new record daily highs.

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Pelosi talks 25th Amendment after Trump scraps coronavirus aid talks

WASHINGTON - Speaking during her weekly press conference Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters that she has raised the prospect of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution — which allows the president's cabinet members to remove him from office — following President Donald Trump's recent coronavirus diagnosis. The president is still reportedly sick with the virus and recovering from the White House, although he has made various appearances on social media, downplaying the severity of his illness.Pelosi would not elaborate further on the manner. Her intention to discuss the constitutional measure comes as Trump recently halted talks on a coronavirus aid package.

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New England Journal of Medicine calls for US leaders to be voted out over COVID-19 handling

WALTHAM, Mass. - A prestigious medical journal published a scathing editorial this week calling for leaders in the federal government to be voted out in November due to the coronavirus pandemic, stating they “have taken a crisis and turned it into a tragedy.”New England Journal of Medicine, which has remained nonpartisan in its 200-year history, did not mention President Donald Trump or Democratic nominee Joe Biden by name, but urged Americans to vote “current political leaders” out of office.President Donald Trump removes his mask upon return to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Oct. 5, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

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Pelosi 'at the table' even after Trump scrapped virus talks

WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she’s "at the table” and ready to negotiate a coronavirus aid package even after President Donald Trump halted talks abruptly. His decision earlier this week sent the jittery economy reeling and left his GOP allies scrambling as millions of Americans go without jobless assistance, hoped-for business support or expanded testing protocols weeks before Election Day.Pelosi said she told Trump's chief negotiator, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, she is willing to consider a measure to prop up the airline industry, which is facing widespread layoffs.

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Coronavirus: Trump says COVID-19 was ‘blessing from God’, promises to speed approval of medications

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Regeneron: What we know about the experimental coronavirus drug Trump took

coronavirus, U.S. President Donald Trump was given an experimental antibody drug from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.The drug, which is currently being studied for use in early infections, apparently made him feel “good immediately.” Trump claimed in a video taken outside the White House that it was “the key” to his improving health.

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Coronavirus: Pelosi says public ‘needs to know’ health condition of Trump

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday that the public “needs to know” the health condition of the president, referring to Donald Trump and his battle with COVID-19.

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Trump, Biden teams suggest presidential debate be pushed back

WASHINGTON (AP) - It's suddenly up in air when the next presidential debate, or maybe debates, may take place.President Donald Trump said Thursday he would skip next week's faceoff with Democratic nominee Joe Biden after organizers said it would be held virtually after Trump got COVID-19, the back-and-forth further disrupting the president's efforts to shift focus away from a virus that has killed more than 210,000 Americans this year.Biden’s campaign countered by asking for next Thursday's town hall style event — the second debate for the candidates —to instead be moved back a week “so the president is not able to evade accountability.” Trump advisers counter-countered a short time later by saying the second debate should indeed be delayed

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Antibody drugs are no cure but seem promising for COVID-19

WASHINGTON – They’re not cures and it’s not likely that everyone will be able to get them as President Donald Trump has suggested. But experimental antibody drugs like the one Trump was given are among the most promising therapies being tested for treating and preventing coronavirus infections.Eli Lilly and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.

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Biden campaign asks for debate to be pushed back a week after Trump declines virtual event

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said Thursday he would skip next week's debate with Democratic nominee Joe Biden after organizers said it would be held virtually after Trump got COVID-19.

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Trump claims he’s ‘cured’ of COVID-19 despite isolation, lack of tests

coronavirus hotspot and staff have been instructed to wear protective equipment around Donald Trump — but the U.S. president claims he has been “cured” of COVID-19 infection and is “essentially very clean.”Trump gave himself a clean bill of health, while acknowledging that he hasn’t been tested for the virus recently, in a wide-ranging, 55-minute phone interview with Fox Business on Thursday morning.“I’m back because I’m a perfect physical specimen and I’m extremely young, so I’m lucky in that way,” he claimed during the interview.

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How long does it take to recover from coronavirus? Experts say many variables at play

coronavirus last week, U.S. President Donald Trump has been photographed back at the White House, waving to supporters from inside a motorcade, and vowing to get back on the campaign trail.The Republican president has gone so far as to say that he was “feeling great!” in a recent White House memorandum following an early discharge from the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland on Monday, and urging Americans not to let the virus “dominate your life.”Trump has claimed, by all appearances, that he is no longer exhibiting symptoms — that he’s beaten the virus.

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Jane Fonda Calls COVID-19 'God's Gift to the Left'

Jane Fonda just called Coronavirus “God’s gift to the left” and she’s explaining why.

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VP Debate: Kamala Harris Says COVID-19 Crisis Is "Greatest Failure of any Presidential Administration" in U.S. History

Republican Mike Pence firmly defended the Trump administration’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed more than 210,000 Americans while his Democratic challenger, Kamala Harris, condemned “the greatest failure of any presidential administration” in a Wednesday night debate dominated by the coronavirus. Because of the virus, the candidates were separated by plexiglass barriers in the debate, which was a far more civil affair than last week's presidential faceoff in which President Donald Trump, now back in Washington recovering from COVID-19, constantly interrupted, almost yelling at times.

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Donald Trump refuses to take part in virtual debate with Joe Biden after President's coronavirus diagnosis

hereHis doctors gave him an experimental cocktail of drugs and remdesivir, which has been proven to be effective in treating the most seriously-ill patients with coronavirus.As a result of his coronavirus-positive status, it had seemed that the second debate may be at risk of not happening, unless he tested negative.But it has been announced the candidates will “participate from separate remote locations”, while the participants and moderator remain in Miami, the commission said.The debate is scheduled to take place next Thursday (October 15).And the election for the 46th President of the United States itself takes place on Tuesday November 3.

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Biden campaign commits to virtual debate; Trump claims he won't participate

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump vowed Thursday not to participate in next week's debate with Democratic nominee Joe Biden after organizers announced will take place virtually because of the president's diagnosis of COVID-19.“I’m not going to do a virtual debate" with Biden, Trump told Fox News, moments after the Commission on Presidential Debates announced the changes due to Trump's diagnosis.That cast serious doubts on whether the event will go forward, even as Biden's campaign vowed that its candidate will participate.“Vice President Biden looks forward to speaking directly to the American people," deputy Biden campaign manager Kate Bedingfield said in a statement.It is more evidence that the race remains defined by the virus,

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The Latest: Trump refusing to do a virtual debate with Biden

WASHINGTON – The Latest on the 2020 presidential campaign (all times local):8:10 a.m.President Donald Trump, who has the coronavirus, says he will not participate in next week’s presidential debate if it’s held virtually.Trump says in a Fox Business interview that that arrangement is “not acceptable to us.”And he’s accusing moderators of trying to protect his Democratic rival Joe Biden.The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates had announced moments earlier that the second debate between Trump and Biden will take place virtually because of the president’s diagnosis of COVID-19.The commission cited a need “to protect the health and safety of all involved with the second presidential debate” and said the candidates would “participate

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2nd U.S. presidential debate between Trump, Biden will be virtual

The second U.S. presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden will be virtual, with the two candidates speaking from separate remote locations, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced Thursday.The announcement comes nearly a week after Trump said he’d tested positive for the coronavirus.The debate, scheduled for Oct.

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Second debate with Biden going virtual amid Trump's COVID-19

WASHINGTON – The second presidential debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden will take place virtually amid the fallout from the president's diagnosis of COVID-19.The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates debates made the announcement Thursday morning, a week before the two were scheduled to face on in Miami.

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2nd Trump-Biden debate will be virtual amid COVID-19 concerns

WASHINGTON – The second presidential debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden will take place virtually amid the fallout from the president’s diagnosis of COVID-19.The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates debates made the announcement Thursday morning, a week before the two were scheduled to face on in Miami.

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Coronavirus aid: President Trump presses for $1,200 stimulus checks

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Wednesday tried to salvage a few priority items lost in the rubble of COVID-19 relief talks that he blew up, pressing for $1,200 stimulus checks and new aid for airlines and other businesses hard hit by the pandemic.In a series of tweets, Trump pressed for passage of these chunks of assistance, an about-face from his abrupt and puzzling move Tuesday afternoon to abandon talks with a longtime rival, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The California Democrat has rejected such piecemeal entreaties all along.

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Regeneron drugs in demand after Trump coronavirus treatment — but it’s not available to public

COVID-19 drugs after U.S. President Donald Trump was treated last week with an experimental therapy from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc, and on Wednesday he promised to make it free to Americans while touting its benefits.Medical experts said more data is needed to assess the treatment’s efficacy before wider use should be allowed.Trump was discharged from the hospital late on Monday, just a few days after being diagnosed with COVID-19 that caused enough lung inflammation for blood oxygen levels to fall.

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Kate Garraway blasts Donald Trump's claim getting coronavirus was 'blessing from God'

Good Morning Britain host Kate Garraway has shared her shock and confusion over US President Donald Trump's latest comments about coronavirus.

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Kate Garraway left baffled by Donald Trump’s ‘strange’ claim that his coronavirus diagnosis was a ‘blessing from God’

KATE Garraway admitted she was left baffled by Donald Trump's claim that his coronavirus diagnosis was a "blessing from God". The Good Morning Britain star called the US president's wording "strange" and questioned how he could call it a blessing when more than 210,000 of his citizens have died from the illness.

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Analyzing Trump's illness is humbling for media's med teams

NEW YORK – Here's an assignment to humble even the most confident doctor: Assess a patient's condition before millions of people without being able to examine him or see a complete medical chart.That, in effect, is what medical experts at news organizations have been asked to do since President Donald Trump revealed Friday that he had tested positive for COVID-19.They have a fine line to walk, needing to decide what level of speculation — if any — that they’re comfortable with, how much to read into medications the president has been prescribed and how to explain the course of a virus so new that it still confounds the people who study it.“You try to put the pieces of the puzzle together,” said CNN's Dr.

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Kate Garraway horrified as Trump calls Covid a 'blessing' amid Derek's fight for life

Good Morning Britain host Kate Garraway was stunned to hear the US President Donald Trump describe catching coronavirus "as a blessing." Trump tested positive for coronavirus last week and spent three days in hospital but appears to be recovering well after appearing in a number of videos.He said in his latest one: "I think this was a blessing from God that I caught it."Kate said on the show today: "Blessing from God.

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Pence, Harris spar over COVID-19 in vice presidential debate

SALT LAKE CITY – Trading barbs through plexiglass shields, Republican Mike Pence and Democrat Kamala Harris turned the only vice presidential debate of 2020 into a dissection of the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, with Harris labeling it “the greatest failure of any presidential administration.”Pence, who leads the president’s coronavirus task force, acknowledged that “our nation’s gone through a very challenging time this year,” yet vigorously defended the administration’s overall response to a pandemic that has killed 210,000 Americans.The meeting, which was far more civil than last week’s chaotic faceoff between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden, unfolded against an outbreak of coronavirus now

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Pence, Harris clash over COVID-19 response during vice presidential debate

Mike Pence and Democrat Kamala Harris turned the only vice presidential debate of 2020 into a dissection of the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, with Harris labeling it “the greatest failure of any presidential administration.”Pence, who leads the president’s coronavirus task force, acknowledged that “our nation’s gone through a very challenging time this year,” yet vigorously defended the administration’s overall response to a pandemic that has killed 210,000 Americans. U.S.

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Trump administration turns to immigration as vote nears

WASHINGTON – It had the ingredients of a President Donald Trump campaign speech: dangerous immigrants, attacks on Democrat-run cities, even a mention of “America First.” But it was Chad Wolf, acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, announcing a routine, and relatively minor, enforcement operation Wednesday at a Washington news conference.“It’s not about Republicans, it’s not about Democrats, it’s not about elections,” Wolf insisted, twice, to reporters.Yet it was the third time in a week the administration rolled out actions to appear tough on immigration, reviving an issue that was at the heart of Trump’s successful 2016 campaign, but largely on the back burner in the current one.

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Trump hails experimental treatment for his virus recovery

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump credited an experimental drug treatment with helping his recovery from COVID-19 and suggested his diagnosis could be a “blessing in disguise" in the nation's battle against the pandemic. But there is no way for the president or his doctors to know whether the drug had any effect.In a new White House video posted Wednesday evening, Trump said his illness had shed light on an experimental antibody cocktail that he tied to his improved condition.

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Pence refuses to take responsibility for White House coronavirus outbreak in Harris debate

Mike Pence on Wednesday refused to address how White House officials and lawmakers — including himself — failed to follow public health measures at an event linked to multiple coronavirus cases.During the vice presidential debate with Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris, Pence was asked by moderator Susan Page why Americans should be expected to follow federal guidelines such as mask-wearing and social distancing, when those measures were barely seen among attendees in the Rose Garden on Sept.

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Watch the VP debate: Pence, Harris clash on Trump’s handling of coronavirus

SALT LAKE CITY - Vice President Mike Pence and California Sen. Kamala Harris faced off Wednesday for the only vice presidential debate of the 2020 election, forgoing the traditional handshake, separated by plexiglass due to the COVID-19 pandemic after taking the stage. The debate, taking place at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, is happening as President Donald Trump recovers at the White House after testing positive last week for the coronavirus and spending three days at Walter Reed Military Medical Center.The debate’s moderator, USA TODAY’s Susan Page, started the conversation with a question about the coronavirus pandemic.Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen.

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