Contrast instead of chaos: Trump and Biden spar mostly respectfully in final debate

WASHINGTON — President Trump clashed with former vice president Joe Biden in their second and final debate on Thursday night, swapping the constant interruptions he deployed in their first meeting for a barrage of criticisms about Biden’s family and political tenure as he struggled to defend his own handling of the COVID-19 pandemic that has come to define the race.

Less than two weeks before the election, the incumbent sought to present himself as the insurgent outsider with a bone to pick ― the same pitch that lifted him to an upset victory in 2016 — while Biden accused him of lacking clear plans, a vision, or a willingness to lift a nation in the throes of a public health crisis, an economic crisis, and a reckoning over race.

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