Wallace: "Its been an interesting hour and a half."

Tom Rogers: Biden offered a simple "yes" on telling his people to stay calm and patient. Trump would not say that. Biden saying he would support the outcome. Trump totally would not say that. Good ending for Biden: I will be president of all the people. Biden did what he needed to do. Showed in intellect and temperament far superior to Trump. No way Trump can make "socialist vessel" or "mental infirmity" stick. Moreover, given how Trump conducted himself, if I were Biden, I would not debate again.

Frank Donatelli: Biden benefitted by being on stage with an incumbent president. He also exceeded the low expectations of the Trump campaign who have called him past his prime. He clearly held his own.

The lasting impact of this debate might be style and performance not necessarily the spoken word.

Chris Wallace did a superb job under very difficult circumstances.

Did POTUS change the conversation of the election? I don't think so.

Question: Will you urge your supporters to stay calm during this period, ot to engage in civil unrest, and will you pledge tonight that you will not declare victor until independently verified

Trump: I'm urging my supporters to go into the polls and watch very carefully.

Trump: If its a fair election, I'm 100 percent on board, but if I see hundreds of thousands of ballots manipulated, I can't go along with that.

Biden: Yes. Some of these ballots cant even be opened until Election Day. If there's thousands, its going to take time to do it.

Trump says he believes "to an extent" that human pollution and greenhouse gas emissions contribute to the warming of the planet: "I think a lot of things do."

Tom Rogers: When Trump's closing statement is ranting about Hillary and Obama you know he lost the debate. With an attempt to claim the election is a fraud showing his desire to undermine the democracy with a wild rant. This debate was his shot to change the trajectory of the election—he did not do that. So his efforts will be geared to trying to overturn the legitimacy of the election. "Mailmen selling the ballots. Dumping them in rivers." Now going unhinged. Biden sounding so much more in control. Wallace actually weighed in with a fact check—mail-in ballots have not been found to be fraudulent

Caroline Glick: What is his plan for preventing mass ballot fraud? That is the problem. There doesn't seem to be a plan for handling this.

On mail-in ballots:

Biden: If I win, it'll be accepted. If I lose it'll be accepted. If we get the votes, its all over, he's gonna go. He can't stay in power. It won't happen. So vote.

Trump: This is going to be a fraud like you've never seen.

Trump: We might not know for months.

Marianne Williamson: No, Trump is not "commanding the room." He is bullying the room. Confusing those two things is part of the problem in America today. Many see his authoritarian nature as the stuff of "leadership," and it is not.

"I want crystal clean water and air"—Trump on climate change.

Caroline Glick: Biden - He can't keep straight if he supports the Green New Deal or the Biden Plan or what the difference is between them.

Tom Rogers: Environmental policy can create good jobs—not Biden's most articulate answer but showed he is not endorsing the Green New Deal but his own plans, so Trump was not able to "trap" him into endorsing the plan. Last shot at trying to suggest Biden is a "socialist vessel." Trump was unable to make that point in 90 minutes

Gordon Chang: The Paris Accord encourages China to pollute as much as it can until 2030 to raise the cap. Not sure what it will do to retard climate change. The agreement will cripple the American economy.

"It's hard to get any word in with this clown," Biden says to Wallace about Trump.

Trump: I want crystal clean water and air. We are doing phenomenally, but I haven't destroyed our businesses. If you look at the Paris Accords, it was a disaster from our standpoint.

Biden: The first thing I'll do is I will rejoin the Paris Accord.

Trump struggles to condemn white supremacists: "Proud Boys, stand back and stand by!"

Tom Rogers: If Trump thinks he is going to win the election on Hunter, he is sadly mistaken. Why Biden has not hit back on Trumps son-in-law being given security clearance over the objection of White House chief of staff if want to talk about relatives causing national security issues.

Gordon Chang: I know the debate has moved on from manufacturing, but this debate on renewable energy makes me wonder where we are going to get the energy from renewable sources to power the factories of tomorrow.

Caroline Glick: Biden asked whether his plan to tank fracking will harm the economy: No. This makes no sense. Of course it will. He wants to eliminate a booming industry that has rendered the U.S. energy independent. And he says it won't harm the economy.

Frank Donatelli: Trump vigorous in claiming Biden is left wing in addition to personal attacks. Biden has focused on talking directly to voters. Not sure POTUS succeeded in making this a choice election vs. a referendum on the incumbent.

Marianne Williamson: I'm glad Chris Wallace has taken on the issue of climate change. Trump now saying he wants crystal clean water and air. It's unbelievable how he lies. He appointed as head of the EPA an ex-oil company lobbyist, now an ex- chemical company executive, both of whom have done more to destroy than to further the aims of environmental protection. Trump has gutted our environmental regulations, harming our air quality as well as our water. Pesticides that we know harm a child's brain are still being sold, all so that chemical companies can continue to make short-term profits. When having to choose between corporate profits and human lives, the Trump administration chooses corporate profits every time. All to the detriment of the American people.

Benjamin Weingarten: Joe Biden has no answer on alleged raft of Biden family corruption while he was in office. No answer on court-packing. No answer on police support.

"Gentlemen, I hate to raise my voice, but why shouldn't I be different than the two of you?" Wallace jumps in during all the interrupting.

Nigel Farage: Antifa is a domestic terrorist organisation. Far from condemning the group, Biden says, "They're just an idea." Disgraceful.

Caroline Glick: The fact that Chris Wray is being used against the President shows how problematic Wray's tenure has been. And it was a good set up for the President to discuss how large the obstacles he has faced since taking office have been and remain.

Tom Rogers: Gasoline on the fire, Biden characterization of Trump on urban violence. Trump's looking like his face is burning he is getting so agitated. Biden looking far more in control.

Obama left judgeships open? Does the president not understand what Mitch McConnell did to achieve that.

Trump: We just got the support of 200,000,250 military leaders and generals total support, law enforcement—almost every law enforcement group in the United States. I don't think you have any law enforcement, you can't even say the words law enforcement for us because if you say those words, you're gonna lose all of your radical left supporters.

Trump: the people of this country want and demand law and order and you're afraid to even say it.

Biden: It's about equity in equality, it's about decency, it's about the Constitution. And we have never walked away from trying to quite require equity for everyone, equality for the whole of America, but we've never accomplished it, but we've never walked away from it like he has done.

Biden: When Mr Floyd was killed, there was a peaceful protest in front of the White House. What did he do? he came out of his bunker had the military use tear gas so he could walk across to a church and hold up a Bible.

Look, the fact is that you have to look at what he talks about. You have to look at what he did and what he did has been disastrous for the African American community.

Trump says he ended racial diversity training "because it's racist."

Marianne Williamson: Chris Wallace just said that many of the protests have turned into riots. This narrative about the protests is very misleading. First of all, 93 per cent of the protesters are peaceful. And it is the activity of of the police more often than not that causes violence—in fact, that IS violent. As far as looting is concerned - and anyone who behaves violently should be held accountable, no matter who they are—the truth is that we don't actually know who the looters are. They could easily be coming in from outside the situation to make it look like it's left-wing violence.

Trump: It is crazy what's going on, and he doesn't want to say law and order because he can't, because he'll lose his radical left supporters, and once he does that it's over with. But if he ever got to run this country, and they ran it the way he would want to run it, our suburbs would be gone.

Biden: He wouldn't know a suburb unless he took a wrong turn. This is not 1950, all these dog whistles and racism don't work anymore, suburbs are by and large integrated.

Biden: I'm totally opposed to defunding the police.

"We believe in law and order, but you don't," Trump to Biden.

Benjamin Weingarten: Law and order response was by far President Trump's strongest thus far.

Tom Rogers: Trump is running out of time to think this debate will change the direction of the race.

Trump saying suburbs would be gone—pure racist dog whistle. Biden should have called it out more clearly—saying this is not the '50s not enough.

Caroline Glick: Trump - "Critical race theory is racist." Just so."They were teaching people to hate our country." "They were teaching people that our country is a horrible place."

Biden - "He's a racist." Trump objects. Wallace silences him and says, "Let him speak."

But when Trump tried to discuss Hunter Biden's corruption, Wallace shouted him down.

Crazy.

The issue of the suburbs is distressing. There is a clear Democratic plan to take zoning power for housing away from the local leadership. And Biden again is evading discussing the issue. "People in the suburbs don't want to die of Covid." Non-sequitur.

Trump (on ending racial sensitivity training): I ended it because it's racist, I ended it because a lot of people were complaining that they were asked to do things that were absolutely insane, that it was a radical revolution that was taking place in our military, in our schools, all over the place and you know it and so does everybody else.

Biden: There is a systemic injustice in this country in education and work, and in, in law enforcement and the way in which it is enforced. But look, the vast majority of police officers are good decent honorable men and women, they risked their lives every day to take care of us. But there are some bad apples and when they occur when they find them they have to be sorted out. They have to be held accountable.

Marianne Williamson: "Law and order" is a pretty odd phrase coming out of the mouth of a lawless president. His presidency is an assault on law and order - the law and order of the U.S. government.

I wish Joe was looking into the camera now as he talks about the people who Trump looks down on. Joe is getting a bit angry now, and we need to see that passion. His outrage is the outrage of millions of Americans and it's okay for him to show it.

Nigel Farage: Trump is superb on law and order. His best part of the debate so far.

Tom Rogers: Trump trying to stick Biden's crime bill past on him and at the same time paint him as anti-law enforcement is hard to make stick.

Biden sounding conciliatory on racial justice without sounding anti-law enforcement while denouncing violence. Right note.

Trump: I think masks are okay. I have a mask right here. I put one on when I think I need it.

Biden: Masks make a big difference. His own head of CDC said if we just wore masks and social distance until January we'd probably save 100,000 lives. No serious person said the opposite.

"Show us your tax returns," Biden interjects Trump after Wallace asks a question about Trump's taxes.

Caroline Glick: I think that it was important to get the information on Hunter Biden in. It was ugly but effective, from Trump's perspective.

Tom Rogers: Almost an hour in and Hunter comes into the debate. Biden needs to shift to Trump kids and the tax allegations of inappropriate use of kids payments deducted as business expense. Trump could not control himself during the segment and Biden is acting far less temperamental and totally mentally in control—the Trump tact to try to get Biden off his game simply not working.

Nigel Farage: Scrutiny over Trump's taxes will continue but Joe Biden has to deal with questions on Hunter at some point. He can't go on ignoring it.

Trump says he "brought back football."

Marianne Williamson: This is not a debate. It's a public bullying session. Okay, so here we go. Biden says the story about his son's wife receiving money from Moscow has been discredited. Trump keeps saying it anyway. This is emblematic of the Trump presidency; he cannot do anything with decency.

I remember when Clinton was president Republicans kept saying "character counts." Apparently they changed their minds. Joe just said, "This is not about his family or my family. It's about your family. It's about the American people." Good for you, Joe.

Benjamin Weingarten: Joe Biden saying that the entire Hunter Biden report is discredited is a huge dodge. It's amazing he didn't have a better answer to this.

Tom Rogers: Safe vs. open without regard to safety. Biden wins that argument. Trump hyperbole scores nothing except with his staunchest base on Biden wants shut down the country.

Biden line needed to be—you are clearly viewed as a tax cheat until you prove otherwise. So prove otherwise before the election. But you can't, so you won't.

Trump looks red and angry. Biden demeanor is so much more that of a steady, balanced candidate.

Trump: There's nothing smart about you Joe. Don't ever use the word smart with me.

Biden: He knew it was a deadly disease. He's on tape as acknowledging it. He said he didn't tell us or give people a warning of it, because he didn't want to panic the American people. You don't panic, he panicked.

"Will you just shush for a minute?" Biden to Trump.

Marianne Williamson: Every time Biden speaks directly to the American people it's best. Someone has clearly told him it's not beneficial trying to get into a verbal scrap with a bully. Biden is doing well now, talking straight to the camera. It's the only way to deal with this.

What makes Trump so dangerous is that even when he lies and he knows he's lying, he oddly believes it. It's like he's a brilliant actor, except the role he plays is himself. That, ladies and gentleman, is pretty much the essence of a sociopath. He's lying now about his taxes - "you'll see it as soon as it's finished," he says, although everyone knows his being under audit is irrelevant to whether or not he shows us his taxes. Even the Director of the IRS has said this. Yet we're just supposed to "trust him" that he's paid millions in taxes.

Caroline Glick: Trump is right that the "excitement" around his campaign is about him and the excitement around Biden's campaign is much lower. But that's because Biden's side is excited about getting rid of Trump. Biden is just a means to do it.

I don't know that Biden won the argument about opening safely. I think a lot of people are paying a huge price for the closure. People don't know how to survive with no horizon for opening schools and businesses. Trump made clear that his interest is in enabling people to live their lives.

If Mike Wallace is talking about the economy, why did he segue into Trump's income taxes?

Benjamin Weingarten: Ironic that Joe Biden hit Trump on not having a plan, when Biden has refused to put forth any discernible plan on coronavirus or China.

Nigel Farage: Joe showing first signs of tiredness and we are only half way through. Could be a long 45 minutes for him.

Tom Rogers: With Biden retort on COVID, there is no way to characterize Biden as feeble minded. He is going toe to toe, while Trump is coming off as anything but presidential. Biden scores with Trump does not have a health care plan.

Biden needs to turn to him and deliver a stinger line on Trump's COVID record: "You won't wear a mask, and you have politicized wearing masks, and you have irresponsibly killed people in doing so."

Gordon Chang: President Trump could have made a far stronger case on the virus if he had recounted the sequence of events of how the virus arrived in the United States and what the administration in fact did in the early days. That message got lost in the contentious debate.

We needed a more substantive debate than we got tonight on the coronavirus. The disease policy of the president post January 20 will be of critical importance to the future of this country. That got lost. Also, Trump should have pushed Biden on how he would have handled the virus differently

Marianne Williamson: Trump interrupts Biden constantly as a tactic to make sure no one can hear what he's saying.

They don't live in the same emotional or intellectual universe. Trump just throws verbal blows, whether or not they represent truth. Biden tries to speak the truth as he understands it, and whether or not it's a blow that works -- well, that's what we're all watching to find out.

Frank Donatelli: The virus issue is a tough one for POTUS.

"It's China's fault," Trump says about coronavirus outbreak during COVID-19 segment.

Benjamin Weingarten: Joe Biden opening himself up to a huge attack on Xi.

Nigel Farage: Biden tells Trump to shut up. That shows his level of frustration.

Tom Rogers: Trump answer to COVID is closing flights from China was a grand move that saved millions of lives is not being bought by majority of citizens. Biden took offensive on this issue except did not mention how many countries managed so much better. Excellent retort on swine flu. Biden showing empathy where even up on this stage Trump seems to not know he should do that. Biden should have had a much stronger prepared line: "Mr President your downplaying the pandemic killed thousand of people who did not have to die. Your actions killed them."

Caroline Glick: The only way that Biden can keep the base is by avoiding substance. So he went to ad hominem. And Trump his pushing him back to substance.

Court packing/filibuster: Biden won't answer because he is afraid of the left vs. swing votes. There's no way he can win. So he ended it by telling the President to "shut up."

Biden is saying it's Trump's fault that the economy shut down. He's accusing Trump of responsibility for all the COVID casualties. He doesn't trust the vaccine. These are wild strikes. Trump gave substantive data on what his administration has done. And here is Biden swinging wildly.

Trump: The vaccine has become "political" and he is right. Stunningly.

Marianne Williamson: Chris Wallace has completely lost control of the debate. I'm glad Biden just said "Would you shut up, man."

"It is what it is" because "you are who you are." No truer thing was ever spoken.

Trump now saying that if "we had listened to you, millions would have died." He just makes these outrageous statements as though if he does that, it doesn't matter whether or not they're true. No, President Trump, you did not do a "phenomenal job." You did not use the Defense Production Act to get us PPE, etc. because you didn't want to override the will of the market. Companies making money was more important to you than American lives. Roosevelt told carmakers they wouldn't be making cars until he had the tankers, planes and ships he needed with which to fight the war. We could have done the same thing. You didn't want to. You didn't want to listen to scientists or get people what they needed unless it served your notion of the economic results you felt would serve you best. We saw Governors literally begging you. We saw videos of doctors and nurses crying in frustration, many of them who died because of expose they would not have had had they had the correct equipment. No, Mr. President. You did not do a phenomenal job.

Frank Donatelli: ACA elimination is a Trump vulnerability. Trump attacks media and the moderator. Powerful COVID answer from Biden. "The president has no plan." He was not straight with the American people.

"Will you shut up, man?"—Biden to Trump toward the end of the Supreme Court segment

Benjamin Weingarten: President Trump is commanding the room, and Joe Biden cannot handle the body blows. Lacking command of facts, flustered when facing heat. It is going to erode the affable "Uncle Joe" image.

Nigel Farage: Trump on top form but needs to go a little easier.

Caroline Glick: Trump has picked an interesting tack of making it clear from the outset that he will not accept Chris Wallace helping Biden. It was an important move because then both of them will be on defense. Here Biden goes. He has moved to the ad hominem against Trump as a means to avoid substance. Trump pushed back "He just lost the left."

Tom Rogers: Trump says he was elected president for four years. Biden should have said Obama was elected for four years too and denied his nominee. Biden put on the defensive early. Biden is not doing himself any good laughing instead of having a zinger line that backs trump down. Biden needs to turn to him and say do you want to have a debate or just jabber all night talking over me—because people did not show up to hear that.

On Supreme Court Nomination

Trump: I will tell you very simply, we won the election. Elections have consequences, we have the senate, we have the White House, we have a phenomenal nominee, respected by all. Top top academic. Good in every way. In fact some of her biggest endorses are very liberal people from Notre Dame and other places. We have plenty of time. Even if we did it after the election, I think I have a lot of time after the election, as you know. I think she will be outstanding. She will be as good as anyone who has served on that court. A professor at Notre Dame, highly respected by all, many have said she's the single greatest student he's ever had. She's been a professor for a long time at a great school. And we just, we won the election and therefore we have the right to choose her and very few people knowingly would say otherwise and by the way the Democrats, they wouldn't even think about not doing it. If they had, the only difference is to try and do it faster. There's no way they would give it up. They had Merrick Garland, but the problem is they didn't have the election so they were stopped, and probably that would happen in reverse also definitely what happened reverse. So we won the election and we have the right to do it, Chris.

Biden: The American people have a right to have a say in who the Supreme Court nominee is. That say occurs when they vote for a senator and when they vote for the president of the United States. The election has already started. Tens of thousands of people have already started. So we should wait, we should see what the outcome of this election is. Because that's the only way the American people get to express their view, is by who they elect as president and who they elect as vice president. The president has made it clear he wants to get rid of the affordable care act. He's been running on that. He ran on that and he didn't win government on that. He's in the Supreme Court right now trying to get rid of the Affordable Care Act, which will strip 20 million people from having health insurance now, if it goes into court, and the justice, and I'm not opposed to the justice, she seems like a very fine person. She's written, before she went into the bench which is her right. And she thinks that the Affordable Care Act is not constitutional. The other thing is on the court and if it was struck down what happens, women's rights are fundamentally changed. Once again, a woman could be helped pay more money because she has a pre-existing condition of pregnancy, we're able to, they're able to charge women more for the same exact procedure Amanda gets, and that ended when we in fact passed the Affordable Care Act.

Marianne Williamson: Trump is behaving calmly (which is good for him), Biden is stating his case strongly (which is good for him). Both of them talking over each other. If this is the night, we'll learn nothing.

"How you doing, man?" Biden says to Trump when they first come on the debate stage.