Biden's ABC town hall: Former VP lays out vision in stark contrast to Trump's

In the last question of the town hall, Stephanopoulos asked Biden if he expects next week's debate to happen and if he would demand that Trump test negative. Biden said he expects to be at that debate and that he believes Trump will take a COVID-19 test. 

He also mentioned that he had taken a COVID-19 test earlier Thursday. 

"I just think it's -- it's just decency. To be able to determine whether or not you are -- you're clear," Biden said. "I'm less concerned about me than the people, the guys with the cameras, the people working in the, you know, the Secret Service guys you drive up with, all those people." 

"I'm confident that the Cleveland Clinic is the one overseeing it," he added. "I think they're going to not let happen, what happened last time. They're going to demand that it's safe."

BIDEN'S CLAIM: "All the way back in the beginning of February, I argued that we should be keeping people in China. And we had set up, in our administration, a pandemic office within the White House."

FACT CHECK: Biden's comments about what his administration would have done differently at the beginning of the pandemic were lacking some context.

What Biden appeared to be referencing was the United States having Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff based in China in order to monitor the spread of the virus. Reuters reported earlier this year that the Trump administration had cut the number of staff in China by more than two-thirds, mostly over the previous two years in the agency's Beijing office.

In a Democratic presidential primary debate in February, Biden referred to funding cuts for public health agencies. "What I would do immediately is restore the funding," he said then. "I would be on the phone with China and making it clear, we are going to need to be in your country."

His answer at the town hall Thursday night did not provide that full context, though, which made it sound like he could have been referring to whether he supported putting restrictions on travelers coming from China to the United States, a step President Donald Trump took at the beginning of February.

It was not until the beginning of April that Biden's campaign confirmed in a statement to CNN that he supported Trump's decision to bar some travel from China, because the move was supported by scientists and medical experts.

-ABC News' John Verhovek

Mieke Haeck, the mother of a transgender child, asked Biden how he would protect LGBTQ rights.

“I will flat-out just change the law. Eliminate those executive orders, number one,” Biden said.

Biden then brought up the high number of trans women of color who had been killed this year, and mentioned his late son Beau, who he said helped get the first transgender rights law passed in that state.

Voter Mark Halfman, who cast a ballot for Trump in 2016, described the president's foreign policy as a "modern-day miracle" citing his Middle East peace plan and reduction in troops overseas.

He asked Biden if the president deserved some credit, to which the vice president said, "a little but not a whole lot."

"We find ourselves in a position where we're more isolated in the world than we ever have been," Biden said. "'America first' has made America alone."

Biden cited Trump's relationship with questionable figures and hurting relationships with America's democratic allies.

"You see what’s happened and everything from Belarus to Poland ... to Hungary and the rise of the totalitarian regimes in the world. And as well as this president embraces all the thugs in the world," he said.