“We’re going to have science over fiction, and hope over fear,” Biden said, “This election is about decency, honor, respect and treating people with dignity. “We have to open our country,” Trump said. Biden said a national minimum wage of $15 hour an hour for workers was necessary to help low-income wage earners. Trump attacked Biden for passage of a 1994 anti-crime bill that incarcerated far too many minorities for drug offenses. Biden holds an 8-to-10-percentage-point lead over Trump in national polls, but a lead of about half that in battleground states that will likely decide the overall outcome.

Source: Daily Nation October 23, 2020 05:37 UTC