US President Donald Trump, without a face mask, speaks with audience members after participating in a town hall event in Miami on October 16, 2020, Manila time. Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP

Moderator George Stephanopoulos asks Biden, “If you lose, what will that say to you about where America is today?”

Biden answers it could say he’s a lousy candidate, one who didn’t do a great job.

“I hope that it doesn’t say that we are as racially, ethnically, and religiously at odds with one another as it appears the president wants us to be.”

Biden adds: “I think people need hope. I’ve never been more optimistic about the prospects of this country than I am today…. It’s not about Democrat or Republican. I’m going to be an American president, I’m gonna take care of those who voted against me as well as those who voted for me.” 

During his town hall, Biden is asked: If you lose, how will you use platform to urge President Donald Trump and those rallying behind him toward the ideals of a more perfect union?

“What I’ll do, I’ll go back to being a professor…and making the case…focusing on the same issues relating to what constitutes decency and honor in this country,” Biden answers.

“Whether I’m a defeated candidate for president back teaching, or I’m elected president, [human dignity] is a major element of everything that I’m about, because it reflects who we are as a nation.”

“If I’m elected president…I’ll unify, bring people together…. We better be able to do it again. “

Asked if he would end protections for DACA or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Trump claimed he would protect the program – contradicting his earlier actions.

NBC moderator Savannah Guthrie pointed out that no new DACA applicants were allowed under his term.

The Trump Administration sought to end the DACA program in September 2017 but the Supreme Court rejected it in June 2020.

DACA program protects 700,000 “Dreamers,” undocumented migrants brought to the United States as children.

In the town hall, Trump also mistakenly said DACA is different from Dreamers.

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In his town hall, Biden says he did not propose banning fracking. What he wants is for fracking to be “managed very, very well.”

He adds that “the future rests in renewable energy” and that it’s the single fastest growing energy source in the world right now, and the fastest growing employer in the energy industry.

“Every time we talk about global warming and the environment, the president thinks it’s a joke. I think it’s jobs. I, as president, am gonna invest $600 billion we spend in government contracts…on building infrastructure that’s clean and new. What we have to do is focus on the transmission of energy across the country from areas relating to solar and wind. That has not been mastered yet.”

Biden says the country must be able to transition, invest in technology, and get to a place of net zero emissions.

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