1st presidential debate between Trump and Biden spirals into chaotic clash

Wallace pivoted the conversation to the global COVID-pandemic, and Biden began by listing statistics including 200,000 Americans dead and over 7 million infected. 

"The president has no plan. He hasn't laid out anything. He knew all the way back in February how serious this crisis was. He knew it was a deadly disease," Biden said. "And I laid out again in July what we should be doing."

You should get out of your bunker and get out of the sand trap and your golf course and go in your Oval Office and bring together the Democrats and Republicans and fund what needs to be done now to save lives," he continued.

Trump countered by saying if the country had listened to Biden then millions of people would have died, not 200,000, and touted his decision to restrict travel from China in February, along with his efforts on ventilators and vaccine development.

"When you talk about numbers you don't know how many people died in China, you don't know how many people died in Russia, you don't know how many people died in India. They don't exactly give you a straight count," Trump said.

While on the topic of the Supreme Court and the fate of the Affordable Care Act, Trump was quick to call Biden's health care plan "socialized Biden."

Biden, notably, has said he does not support "Medicare for All" and responded by calling out Trump for promising to repeal and replace Obamacare -- which he hasn't.

"He does not have a plan," Biden said. "The fact is this man doesn't know what he's talking about."

Less than 20 minutes into the debate, both candidates have interrupted each other multiple times, making it difficult to understand what either is saying. Wallace has specifically asked Trump multiple times to let Biden finish his thought. 

Eventually, the cross-talks continued for long enough that the former vice president said, "Will you shut up, man?" to the president.

Wallace's first question to both candidates was on the Supreme Court. He asked why Trump believes he is right in confirming a justice before the election and why Biden believes he is right in saying the decision should wait until after Election Day. 

"I will tell you very simply, we won the election. Elections have consequences," Trump said. "We have the Senate, we have the White House and we have a phenomenal nominee respected by all top top academic good in every way, good in every way."

"And by the way, the Democrats, they wouldn't even think about not doing it if they have -- 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." 

When the question was given to Biden, he said that the American people have a right to say who the Supreme Court nominee should be and that that nomination should wait until the November election concludes as Americans have already begun voting.

"It's just not appropriate to do this before this election," Biden said. "Roe v. Wade and the Affordable Care Act could both be struck down by a conservative Supreme Court."

Multiple Senate Democrats are refusing to meet with Trump's nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, citing the impending election, and have expressed mounting concern with her stance on health care as the Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on the fate of the Affordable Care Act one week after the election. 

Senate Republicans, meanwhile, are moving ahead with the nomination despite claims they made in 2016 about not confirming Garland during an election year.