[Anchor]
U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden took swipes at one another on Tuesday during their first debate in Cleveland.
For 90 minutes, they clashed on major issues such as the coronavirus pandemic as well as the economy, racial injustice and the Supreme Court.
The BBC's Jon Sopel reports.
[Reporter]
This will surely go down as the most bad tempered, noisiest, most fractious presidential TV debate in American history, although not that unexpected.
As his campaign team had planned, Donald Trump was on the attack from the off, interrupting Joe Biden repeatedly and squabbling with the moderator.
This deliberate aggression was designed to destabilize the Democratic candidate who's ahead in the polls.
The president was looking to land a knockout blow.
But it merely resulted in the two men talking over each other in a way that surely few Americans will have found edifying.
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