President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden faced off in dueling town halls scheduled after Trump refused to participate in a virtual debate following his coronavirus diagnosis, a topic he tried to avoid, like when asked whether he was tested the day of the first debate. If you ask the doctor to give you a perfect answer back, they take a test and I leave and I go about your business. Did you take the test on the day of the debate? I guess the bottom probably did, and I took a test the day before and the day before Trump in Miami, also downplaying the Rose Garden event that may have infected him. White House staff members and others. Well, they do a lot of testing in the White House. They test everybody, including me, but they test everybody until people were missed. But just the other day, they came out with a statement that 85% of the people that were masks catch it. Meanwhile, in Philadelphia, Biden slammed Trump's handling of the pandemic. He missed enormous opportunities and kept saying things that weren't true. It's all going to go away like a miracle. He's still saying those things. The Democratic nominee also criticized Trump's messaging as harmful to the coronavirus response. The words of a president matter absolutely. No matter whether they're good, bad or indifferent, they matter on when the president doesn't wear a mask or makes fun of folks like me. When I was wearing a mask for a long time, then you know, people say, Well, it mustn't be that important. For most of the night, Trump was combative, including when pressed on his refusal to condemn white supremacy in the first debate. I denounce white supremacy. Okay, you denounce white supremacy for years, but you always do it. You always start off with the question. You didn't ask Joe Biden whether or not he denounces Antifa. This time around, the president declined to condemn Cuban in conspiracy theories. I know nothing about Cuban on. I just tried very little, you told me. But what you tell me doesn't necessarily make it fact. I hate to say that I know nothing about it. I do know they are very much against pedophilia. They fight it very hard, but I know nothing about believe it. If you can call your subject, I'll tell you what I do know about I know about Antifa and I know about the radical left and I know how they are. Biden mostly provided long answers, laying out his policy plans and said this about his involvement in a crime bill as a senator. Was it a mistake to support it? Yes, it waas. But here's here's where the mistaking the mist ake came in terms of what the States did locally, the former VP dodged a question about whether he's looking to expand the Supreme Court in the wake of Senate Republicans. Move to rush the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett. But don't voters have a right to know where they do have a right to know what I stand? And I have a right to know where I stand before they vote so you'll come out with a clear position before Election Day? Yes, depending on how they handle this, Trump did little to deny The New York Times reporting about his tax returns. Are you confirming that Yes, you dio some $400 million saying is that it's a tiny percentage of my network when you look at vast properties like I have and they're big and they're beautiful and they're well located. When you look at that, the amount of money $400 million is a peanut. When asked what a Biden loss would mean for the country, the former vice president said this well, I could say I'm a lousy candidate on I didn't do a good job. But I think I hope that it doesn't say that we are as racially, ethnically and religiously at odds of one another as it appears the president wants us to me.